This weekend seemed to be non stop. On Friday I had the aforementioned trip to the Spanish particle accelerator and spent the afternoon in Madrid. I made dinner with my 11-year-old host brother and afterwards went out with some friends. On Saturday my family and I had dinner with some family friends. They had daughters around the same age as me and it was nice to meet them. Saturday night I went with some friends to a big and well known discoteca in Madrid called Kapital. There, I met two American kids from Minnesota who were traveling around Europe like the typical 19-year-old travelers. It was fun to meet some Americans on the streets and speak a little English.

On Sunday I went with my family to Soria. Soria is the region of Spain north of Madrid. It was about a two hour car ride. My host Dad’s mother was sick so we went to visit her. I met my host Dad’s brothers and saw some of Soria. While my host parents were visiting with my father’s mother my host brothers and I went around Soria. There was a soccer game in Soria that day and we went to the stadium to check it out. We walked up around the back and saw some other people standing on big garbage cans watching the game. So we went up to some other garbage cans and stood up on them and were able to see the game. So we watched the second half of the game between Numancia de Soria and Valencia. Now I have seen one and a half soccer games here in Spain.