"La Americana Estupida"

I was not able to write yesterday because I was not able to function at all; I was suffering from a hangover. Two nights ago Charles, Alyssa, Alexandra, Nikki, PJ and I went to 2 cafes for drinks and at the second one we ran into the rest of La Fundacion. Here I made the first "Stupid American" mistake. Toledo is a very touristy city and because of this all the bars close pretty early. At midnight I decided to order 2 more cervesas so I could have them after the bar closed (and I felt like a dude also). So I looked at the beer and I wanted something that I had not had in the United States. I chose Free Damm without thinkning about it too much. When I returned to the table, mi amigo Anson asked me is I wanted to get drunk and I responded "Yes, that's the reason I have 2 beers." He gave me a glance and started laughing. Then he asked me "How do you get drunk with beer without alcohol?" WHAT?!? Apparently Free Damm is free of alcohol and I had to change my beers for Mahou. I am sure that everyone will be pointing out that moment for the rest of the trip. Note to self: there is no point to drinking Free Damm...none. After this we grabbed 40s and went to a pier where you could see the whole canyon! It was bellatisima [so so so so so beautiful]!!! A perfect place for lovers. And, of course, I was the only one not getting any loving but I didn't care. I felt loved by the city, the breeze and my 40 ounces of cervesa.
But the 40 ounces was hating me during my classes the next day (yesterday Sept. 3). In spite of this I had a great day visiting La Iglesia de San Juan, La Sinigoga Transito and the most famous painting by El Greco. La Iglesia de San Juan is magnificent! It has a lot of symbolism for the reyes [like rulers/king and queen] Isabel and Fernando. Originally they were going to be buried here but now it is like a monestary because they are buried in Granada (which means pomagrante; the fact of the day). Places like these make me feel so small and insignifcant. La Sinagoga was interesting but I didn't have much time to look at the Museo de Sefardi [a museum connected to the sinogoga with artifacts of a practically lost civilization of Sefari Jews]. I thought of Cara because she is Jewish...not really but I thought of how she wasn't Jewish. Now, what to say about El Greco? The Burial of Count Orgaz shocked me! It's about 10 meters tall and surreal (not in style but in real life. How ironic). I couldn't believe my eyes. The skin of the people was so smooth and the technique was incredible! I didn't want to move from in front of this painting.
Last night was relaxing. It was the end of our trip to Toledo and we had a cokctail dinner. This week I was able to meet people from USD which I am happy about. They are nice but not very open. I'm always the one introducing myself but that's not important to me. I don't want a boundary between the schools so I invited the guys from USD to a bull fight on Sunday. My friend Evan is going to bring his hombres and we are going to integrate the schools. Hooray!
Naturally, we are going to drink tonight at a bar that many previous students from SMU and USD have been to. It should be fun.
I have been missing my parents much more than I thought and today we had a video chat. I was so happy I cried [what a little bitch]. However there are many wonderful days to come.