sunday, boring sunday

Hola!
Today it is sunday, and sundays in this country (at least in Valladolid) are rather boring. Nothing is open (not even grocery stores), well maybe some bars and cafe's but that's it. At least the sun is shining, but it still feels like a day for doing nothing. I could have been doing my Spanish homework of course, but the book stores have finished their books and won't have any more until tuesday, wednesday. So what is a girl to do?

In a few minutes Real Valladolid starts playing a game which is supposedly shown on local television. Maybe I could check if we have that local TV channel. Earlier we watched some basket ball and a dubbed Scooby Doo movie. That is about as exciting as it gets here on Sundays. Of course, if you party like the Spanish you might need a day for resting before the new week starts...

Yesterday Sol and I went to see a Champion's League game. But it was the wrong sport, at least for me, the players were scoring with their hands rather than their feet. It was handboll, BM Valladolid vs Gummersbach (a German team). Sol was excited since several players from the Icelandic national team plays for G, and so we sat, amongst only Valladolid fans, cheering quietly for the Germans. I must say handboll is rather exciting. Then again seeing any sport live is more exciting than seeing it on TV, but it really made me curious about the game and watching more matches. In the end the two teams landed on an equal score of 36-36.

On wednesday we will hopefully go to the football stadium for the first time in order to watch the white and purple players of Valladolid meet Deportivo in the Spanish cup. I don't even know if it is possible to get tickets, so keep your fingers crossed.

Moving on to more football. Ronaldhino is being called Gordinho here in Spain (Gordo means fat in Spanish) and pictures of him are on every news channel. Sol and I talked about going to Barcelona and letting him know we don't think so. He is still a brilliant footballer.

Tomorrow starts another week of classes, and hopefully the spring is here to stay now. Enjoy the snow back home in Sweden! ;-)
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