"i need to peace"

holaaaa.
so i had my intercambio last night. OH MY LORD. it was horrible. i met him under the clock in the plaza, and he seemed super outgoing and nice and the first like 10 minutes it seemed awesome, because we just kept talking and there wasnt ever a lull. but then we sat down at this little place outside the mall and oh my gosh he was such a creeper. first of all, he wouldnt stop telling me how much he loves my country, and wouldnt stop talking about britney spears and how gorgeous she is and how hes going to be rich and marry her...wtf. and every nice car we passed while walking around he was like "oh this is my car. haha just kidding!" so yeah, after we sat down he kept saying "more questions more questions" like trying to get me to ask questions. and then he said he was going to point to something and i had to say it in spanish. so ok, spaniards have less personal space than americans do, so i wasnt surprised that he sat so close to me when we sat down, but when he was pointing at things for me to say, he touched my nose and my eyebrows and my eye (wtf) and my lip and my teeth! and he freaking tried to touch my tongue and i was like effin hell no haha. he also kept telling me that he was going to be my teacher for the semester and i would learn alot of spanish! and also, he has friends in toledo, ohio and would come visit me in columbus when he was in ohio. WTFWTFWTFWTF.

ok so he also kept using the word "bimbo" and i really thought he didnt know what it meant. so i asked him what he thought it meant and he said its a woman with blonde hair and large boobs. ok....but then i told him that most people in the united states dont use that word, that we all know it but dont use it. so then he asked me "well what do people call women with blonde hair and large boobs?" omg...... so i said we call them women. duh. so then he proceeds to tell me that hes a "teacher of sex" and teaches people psychology and blah blah blah. thennnnn he started to tell me how the american women he has met with are "disgusting" and im pretty sure he meant "ugly" but thinks disgusting is the right word, and at that point i didnt really give a shit anymore because he was a creeper and i just wanted to frickin leave! so by now we had been sitting there for 2 hours, and intercambios are only supposed to last about an hour. and so i told him several times that i needed to go meet my friends in the plaza, and he was like "oh, well the concert there goes til around 1, so you can see it later!" wtffffffffffff dude! he would not let me go. so finally i was just like i have to go, and got up and we walked out and he said "i need to peace" and im pretty sure it was "i need to pees" as in "i need to pee" omg it was hilarious. so i was like um..ok. well i need to peace, as in peace out.... so when he went into the bathroom i seriously considered making a run for it, but after contemplating for a bit he came out before i had decided. so he walked me all the way back to the plaza and said he would help me find my friends. so i said i can find my friends myself bye! so then he does the 2 cheek kiss thing that they all do here, and tells me a zillion times how beautiful and nice and blah blah blkjfksldafjoasdlf;k i am, and kisses me several more times!! jesus christtttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. so he hugged me for like the 5th time and i just said i need to go and pushed away and ran for it and he yelled after me "te amo!" which means "i love you!" holy shit. so even though i was incredibly creeped out, its def a good story to tell now hahah.

oh also, he smelled really bad. barf. and he told me he would email me to set up another time to meet. HA.

so yeah, great story. but i have another great story! so a couple hours before that ann and i decided to try one of the little restaurant places on the streets near the plaza. they have a bunch of outdoor seating, so you can just sit down and a waiter will come to you. so we were just walking and saw one with some people sitting at it, so we thought we'd sit there. then the waitress comes with our menus and ann laughed and told me to look at the name of the place. it was called "50's rock, fast food" hahahhhhhh. so even though we tried realllllllly hard to not eat mcdonalds / any fast food, we STILL somehow ended up at a place where all they serve is burgers and fries hahaha. i told ann its probably the only restaurant in salamanca that serves burgers and fries haha. i feel like fate will always just bring us back to the french fries. the other day ann said our friendship is growing stronger through food, and its totally true haha. so funny.

we booked our trip to casablanca today for october 7th i think. supes excited :)

haley