The time is flying...

So only three weeks left here in sunny, beautiful Spain. Hard to believe.

This week we have a volunteer team in Madrid hanging out with us and helping us with some of our events this week. They are a crazy bunch of ladies from Tennessee that have serious southern accents. I love it. Everything they say just cracks me up. It's been too long since I've heard that deep south talkin'.

Monday we had another baking day where we invited our Spanish friends over and this time we taught them how to make chocolate chip cookies. It was a lot of fun and we had a bunch of people show up. Even my roommate and some of her friends came which was exciting and they are just hilarious so I was glad they came. Since they are hard to come by here, we sent all the Spaniards home with some chocolate chips and brown sugar so they could attempt to make the cookies on their own at home. Tomorrow, Friday, we're having another baking day but in this one, the Spaniards are teaching us how to make tortilla espanola! I'm excited about this. I think they'll get a kick out of it too.

This Saturday is our big event for the semester...a picnic and baseball game! We're going to have the all-American picnic foods: hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, apple pie, popcorn. And then we're going to teach our Spanish friends how to play baseball and maybe some ultimate frisbee. I can't wait! I think it's going to be hilarious to see all of us play, or attempt to play, I should say. Everyone's pretty excited about this week, so pray that people actually show up! We're thinking around 30 or 40 but you can't really tell.

And then...Mom comes on Sunday! That should be pretty exciting. We are going to Venice not this weekend, but the next and I'm really excited about that. Yay!