My "rummys"

I almost finished my first weekend with my new roommates and I think I will have a hell of a good time in Madrid with them. It was absolutely crazy...Yesterday I was at the swimming pool the whole day, and came back at 12 in the night, not expecting them to be home...but they were and a bit tipsy already. I drank with them at home and then we went out in a club...a good club...but I was too busy with our own thing to notice the club. We had some markers from home and we ended up fighting each other in the club and got totally painted. My official nickname in the house is Rummy...because: I come from Rumania and Rum (it could have been any other drink, but this worked with the name)...

Today we cleaned the house because it was very, very dirty and they are pretty good, I was surprised.

Here come the gays!

This Saturday (04.07) I was at my first gay parade. I am open minded and I don't like to judge things by their cover, but I have to admit that I felt myself a bit homophobic. It as a bit yucky to see a lot of guys kissing guys, I think girls kissing girls is much better. The parade in Madrid is one of the biggest in Europe and usually there up to 3 million people participating (crowd included). I have no idea how many were this year, but it sure was a lotttt of people. It was very hot, like every other summer day in Madrid…but this didn't stop anyone from going out on the streets, where they were having water fights or people throwing water on them from balconies.

The parade is full of colour and costumes. Of course the most interesting are the guys...lesbians are a bit boring and normal considering that nowadays all girls wear pants...but the guys were amazing. Not just the drags...who had absolutely fabulous costumes, but also the others. I have a feeling they look so good on purpose to agonies girls...and the main song was "Dragostea din tei"...which I guess is some sort of gay anthem.

I went with Sara and Diego and ended up with Diego and a bunch of Erasmusers I knew from Denmark. We had a few drinks (a bit too many maybe) and the best was the mojito in a 1l plastic glass, of which I had two because it was absolutely delicious. The result was a bad hangover...again...and every time I do this I say I will never do it again...I spent my hangover day with Diego's family by the swimming pool and we developed a nice theory...20s=1 day, 30s=2 or 3 days, 40s=4 days and after 50s you should be crazy to drink that much and not learn your lesson :P

Espana y politica

The Autonomous Community (Comunidad Autónoma) is the first-level political division of the Kingdom of Spain, established in accordance with the Spanish Constitution. The second article of the constitution recognizes the rights of "regions and nationalities" to self-government and declares the "indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation".

Spain is divided into 17 autonomous communities. These regional governments are responsible for schools, universities, health, social services, culture, urban and rural development and, in some places, policing.

- Andalucia

*Sevilla (Government)

*Granada (Court of Justice)

- Aragon

* Zaragoza

- Principado de Asturias

* Oviedo

- Islas Baleares

* Palma de Mallorca

- Comunidad Autonoma Vasca

* Vitoria

- Islas Canarias

* Santa Cruz de Tenerife

- Cantabria

* Santander

- Castila-La Mancha

* Toledo (Government)

* Albacete(Court of Justice)

- Castilla y Leon

* Valladolid (Government)

* Burgos (Court of Justice)

- Catalonia

* Barcelona

- Extremadura

* Merida

- Galicia

* Snatiago de Compostela(Government)

* La Coruna (Court of Justice)

- La Rioja

* Logrono

- Madrid

* Madrid

- Region de Murcia

* Murcia (Government)

* Cartagena (Parliament)

- Comunidad Foral de Navarra

* Pamplona

- Comunidad Valenciana

* Valencia

The problem is that thses communities instead of making the country stronger they tear it apart. There is a very strong competition between them and the national spirt dies with this. People don't see themselves as Spanish, but as representatives of their own region. The Spanish are the ones in Madrid.