Carnaval!

You will not believe where I am right now!! In Las Islas Canarias in the Island Tenerife for Carnaval!! Yeay I feel like singing Celia Cruz, La vida es un carnaval! Well here it is! (Carnaval is a national holiday...no one knows why but oh well yay no school... it´s like a Spanish Mardi Gras). So first I left on Friday to Madrid at 6am, got there at 9 dumped our stuff off at a hostal and ran to the big red tourist buses with no roofs! We´re listening to the headphones shivering outside on top of this bus, when it starts to hail. We were being pelted, the seats were wet, and it was freezing, but we were gonna enjoy it, damnit! We hopped on and off those buses for hours getting a feel for Madrid! So after that, we go back to get ready for the Latin American costume parties everywhere in Plazas, but they were all cancelled because of the rain! The only thing still going was a huge free concert in the Plaza Mayor! So we walked past all of the costumed people to the hostal and decided to turn in early to get ready for Tenerife, or so I thought. But then I get this phone call at 3 in the morning, and some of my friends were at the club and it stopped raining yeay! So I went across the street to meet them at this club Kapital. I don´t know what I´m doing, as usual, so I follow these spanish girls and walk right past the bouncer into the club. I look to my left and there´s this huge line of people and a sign that says 15 euros! There´s a guy behind me that was checking his name on the guest list, I guess he was with the girls! I got in for free! WHOO HOO! So I ran in to the dance floor before anyone noticed. OMIGOSH, let me just tell you I give this club Best Club I´ve Ever Been To Award! This club is huge, with 7 floors, stadium style, so you could sort of see other floors with balcony dancers and big moving light shows on the walls and ceiling: 1st floor was techno-house-trance-pop, 2nd floor: American & Spanish pop-80´s, 3rd floor: Salsa ish, 4th floor: Lounge/bar, 5th floor: Balcony Hip hop/R&B, 6th floor: Huge Cafe/Bar with chairs and fountains, 7th floor: Movie theater (closed). So I was dancing and then all of a sudden I look and and this humongous like 20 feet wide column of fog/dry ice sprays me in the face like a big fire extinguisher, so quickly I almost stop breathing. OMG, it was like beam-me-up-scotty, I LOVED IT, so different than the fog I´m used to at clubs, it was very cold and soothing. Then the fog rolled over the crowd like clouds, I´ve never seen anything like it! That club was so full of surprises...all of a sudden confetti would randomly spray everywhere at the crowd. QUE GUAY! Then all of a sudden the music stopped and this guy started playing the saxophone on one of the balconies, and everyone started clapping. It was SO RANDOM, like one of those whats-wrong-with-this-picture type things. Then the music started again...whoa. So I got home, took a shower, slept for like a minute, then went on my first ride ever on a subway, the Metro! I was so excited! We flew to Tenerife in a couple of hours, after getting a full course meal and unlimited drinks on the airplane. We checked into the hotel and headed out to the beach, which was ... black! These beaches in the north are volcanic sand, and when the waves hit the beach it sounds different. The hand-size volcanic rocks hit each other... you know what!? It sounds just like that cereal Rice Crispies...you know Snap, Crackle, Pop. If you don´t know what it sounds like, go out and buy some and listen to that cereal! Then imagine it BOOMING! It was my first time in the Atlantic! Speaking of cereal, I am sooo happy to be making my own food, and I have been eating CEREAL! OMG I ate an entire box of Special K Frutas Rojas in one day!