Birthday in the sun

I just had to share this. Usually my birthday is in the coldest time of the year. I mean it's January. So when I was born there was loads of snow. This year I was celebrating my birthday in Madrid and was actually sitting outside in the park in the sun, in a T-Shirt. Here pics to prove it :)
Thanks again for the cake =)

And here specially for Nadine, so you know what I was "singing" the whole time:

Herbie Hancock, I thought it was you....

Half time over

Everything is soo fast. I am now nearly 3 months in Madrid, which means, more than half of the time I will spend here. If I think back, it seems such a short time that I am here. But this is normal I guess. There have been many great moments so far. Travelling around in Spain to Salamanca, Cordoba, Toledo and Sevilla, all the people I got to know. Ira, the German gang from university, the mc, Spanish aiesecers and many more. I guess I have never been out so much as here. Ok, I am not going to clubs so often, but going for a drink or so seems to belong to the programme here. These are always the best moments of the day. Chilling, chatting and so on. I also really got used to the rhythm here, and it's actually getting difficult to go to sleep earlier than 3 am. Never mind, I’ll get used to the Swiss timing soon enough.
There have also been some challenges here for sure, finding a flat, my flatmate, dealing with the banks or just generally not always being able to express myself that well in Spanish and now sitting in the library and writing papers. So what, everyone has to do this, and at least I can do these here. Madrid, the place I still can go for something to eat after 10 pm, where there are sooo many people in the streets (even though the shops are closed) wearing wigs just because it's Christmastime and where they are having the ugliest Christmas lights I’ve seen (just for your information. Christmas lights in Spain use up as much electricity as a 50.000 people town in a year), but so what, that's Madrid. Sometimes you don't have to ask and just accept and enjoy it. And that's definitely what I do here.
¿Buenas, nos vemos en Madrid, no?

Champions League - Real vs. Olympiacos

This Wednesday we went to the Champions League Match between Real Madrid and Olympiacos Piräus in the Bernabeu stadium here in Madrid. Even though I am not this big football fan, but this is just a thing you have to do if you go to a football-crazy city as Madrid is. Even though the atmosphere was quite good; I was surprised that there was not more cheering. But maybe this has to do with the fact that Real anyways thought that they will win, what they finally did, 4:2. Here you have some impressions of the match. But in TV this is really different than if you are in a stadium with 80.000 other people and you are so high up that you nearly can't read the numbers on the back. Hehe. We will definitely go again to the next CL match in December.