Pour Me

Day one as a bartender went alright. Once I got over my stupid pride about working in the service industry with a college degree I decided that bartending was definitely the best option for the summer. No one wants to take English classes (I have a friend that can’t give them away for free right now) and most of the Spaniards go to the beach, so I will have to put my classes on hold until the fall and meanwhile I can practice my Spanish with drunkies. Considering I have no bartending experience whatsoever I think it went fairly successfully last night. It helped that there were never more than 20 people in the bar. It was weird because when I showed up they just gave me a t-shirt and said “ok, go.” I like how relaxed it is. I’m sure that it gets insane on weekends though. Vamos a ver.

Today I went to my landlord’s office to pay our electricity bill (a whopping 16 euros for the entire month- I love this country) and there were two guys sprawled out in the street/doorway to the office covered in blood and tons of people gathered and police, firemen, news reporters, ambulances etc. I started freaking out because that’s where Angel works so I immediately thought it was a moto accident or something and almost started crying. Then he drove by and stopped to ask me what was going on. From what we could piece together, we think it was a father and son that just happened to be walking by the office when they got into a huge fight and beat the crap out of each other. There might have been a knife involved? Very unusual for Granada. We couldn’t really get the story, but I think they both were going to be ok and were taken to the hospital. So it has been quite an odd morning.

This afternoon Alessandra comes back to Spain!!!

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