PELO CORTO

Last week I had my first Spanish hair cut. Christina and Angela’s Madre is a hairdresser, and she has really good prices on haircuts for all the ninas in the program. Megan and Colleen got their haircut my there, both of their cuts turned out really good. They only paid 25 euros for a cut and highlights. After checking around at a couple Pelluquerias near our house, I decided this was the best price. I found one salon that charged 90 euros for a cut and highlights! Que caro! Sarah was also in the market for a haircut to even out here mushroom layers as she called them. We decided we would go to Christina and Angela’s Madre. When we got there they asked cut what type of cut we wanted. I said I wanted layers and highlights. The word for layers is capas and the word for highlights is mechas. I never said what color highlights I wanted, so I was a little confused about what color they were putting in my hair. I told their Madre that she never asked me what color highlights I wanted. She started laughing and said, “Well your blonde so I will give you blonde highlights. I am not going to give you black highlights.”

Sarah and I both loved our cuts. We spent the walk back from the salon admiring our new cuts in all the shop windows. Its amazing what a good haircut can do for you! I will probably go back again before I leave Spain. I ended up only paying 24 euros for highlights and a cut. That would be unheard of in the States! When we got back to our house Madre complimented Sarah’s hair, but she did not even notice that I got my cut! Oh well, I was pleased with my hair even if Madre did not notice.

This past week I had two midterms. Considering I have not really been doing anything for any of my classes the midterms were a bit challenging especially my Spanish Civilization midterm. It was all fill in the blank, so we were expected to pull all these 18th century play writes out of heads. After the exam everyone was really worried. I was not too concerned, because I heard it was pretty much impossible to get less than a B in any class here. I was right. We got the midterms back today. Nobody got less than a B and an A was the equivalent of a 73.

My other midterm was is in my Latin American short story class. We only had to write two essays comparing some of the short stories we had read. It was a breeze. Unfortunately, the teacher had to schedule the midterm on the Friday before our long weekend. This just so happened to be the day my parents were coming to Spain. Immediately after my final, I headed to the bus station to catch a bus to Madrid to meet my parents. In two and a half hours I would be seeing my parents. I was so excited to see them and show them Spain.