Piso Not So Easy

Remember that list from last weekend? Cross off "get a phone". Add "pull out all your hair trying to find a piso, while remaining homeless anyway", and cross that off too. Oh, and "spend most of Sunday drinking with really nice French people that introduced you to plenty of Spanish slang and even more Spanish people", which instead of being crossed off the list, should just be added back on at the end of each week.

So, my friends, there are ups and downs!

Ups so far:

• Make new friends!
• Drink lots of beer!
• More new friends!
• Beginning to orient myself in Madrid without ALWAYS having to look at a map.
• Had an interview this AM with an English academy here in Madrid for some part-time semi-freelance English teaching, which I think went pretty well!
  

Downs so far:

• Still having to pay for a hostel every night.
• My stomach doesn´t want me to eat anything due to weird jet lag business, so I´ve been a little out of sorts on a variation of my classic "break-up diet".
• Phone company refuses to make an actual effort to explain how my phone card works and what I´m actually paying for (but to add to the "Ups" column, at least it does work!).
• Still no apartment!

I´ll be hitting the books again tomorrow morning, by which I mean I will be scouring the internet for reasonably-priced, non-creepy apartments. Wish me luck!