MADRID

Last week it was Magdalena in Castellón. I have never gone to this party because I am from Valencia, so I took the advantage of it and I went to Madrid with a friend. Last February it was her birthday and I knew that she wanted to go to Madrid or Barcelona so I bought the tickets and that was my present for her. I chose Madrid because she loves Ángel Martín, a host in the program of the sexta channel "Se lo que hicisteis", so I called to the program to attend like public. I gave her an album with photos of us too because we are best friends and last year for my birthday she gave me another one. She was really happy with her presents but we had to wait to Magdalena to go to Madrid because we have not classes those days. We were looking forward to travel there and we made a lot of plans. My mother look for a cheap hotel in the center of Madrid, in Fuencarral near to my aunt's house. My father is from Madrid so I have family there and also has my friend.

We went on Monday in the morning by bus and we arrived at five o'clock to Madrid. The hotel was really good: it had a room for the two of us and a little toilet. It was really beautiful with the walls green. It had tv and air-conditioning too. We left the suitcases and went to see the city. The first day we visit "La cibeles", "La puerta del Sol" and "Alcalá". At night we wanted to go to a pub or something like that but it was really cold so we decided to stay in the hotel. We thought that we had to do things that usually we don't do because we were alone in Madrid and we want to have fun, so we went to the bathroom and take a shower with the piyamas and fighting and taking photos of that. Then we went out to buy a packet of cigarretes because we have never smoked. We come back to the room and smoked one. It was a good night.

The next day we have to get up early because we had to go to "Se lo que hicisteis" and we didn't know how to go there. We had to stay there at 12 o'clock and we get up at 7 o'clock, take a shower and get dressed. We decided to go with the underground because it is very cheap. We ask how to go there to a lot of persons to make sure that we were right. The woman that told us where was the set said that it was in Pozuelo de Alarcón so we went there really easy and at 9 o'clock we were there. But there was something strange because there were nobody and the set of telecinco is near the set of "Se lo que hicisteis" and there we did not see telecinco anywhere, only a big building with the number of the sexta channel. At ten o'clock we decided to ask the security guard that was there and he told us that was the building that was in front of us. My friend and I went there but the security guard was wrong. There they filmed only the program "El intermedio" so we come back to ask the security guard who told us that if we want we could enter to the building with the symbol the sexta channel, which later we discover that were the offices of the channel but not the set. The woman that was there was really nice and told us that the set of "Se lo que hicisteis" was in Alcobendas, really far from we were so we had to take a taxi because with the underground we would be late. The driver of the taxi was really friendly and he charges us less than it was. Once we were there we had to wait in a kind of hall with the rest of the public. There we could see how they film some sketch outside and say hello to all of them. Later we saw some other famous like an actress of the serie Los hombres de Paco and the comedians of El club del chiste. We had lunch there a sandwich that the program gave to all of us. They gave us 15 euros too, just the prize of the taxi (30 euros in total, 15 my friend and 15 me). We have fun there and it was really interesting.

We arrived at the center of Madrid late in the afternoon, so we had a walk and come back to the hotel. We were very tired but that night we wanted to go out so we get ready and went to a neighborhood called Malasaña but there were few people and the pubs were close because it was Tuesday so we were in the hotel at 1 a.m. The next day we went to the park El retiro which is so beautiful and big and then we went to visit my aunt and my cousins that live near our hotel. My foot really hurt me so we decided to go wiht the underground. We stayed there until the hour of have lunch because in the evening we had to meet my friend's aunt. So we went to Vallecas, where she lives, and stay there until 8 o'clock because my friend's cousin is our age and studies the same as me and we were talking with her all the evening. Her aunt took us to the hotel by car and we met some italians that we saw the first day. I explain this. The first day we were in the underground trying to find the way to arrive at the hotel when they ask us if we were italians (I don't know why but everybody think that we are italians, even there is people who talk to us in italian). Since that moment we have seen them all the days. So that night we went with them. But suddenly my friend told me that she had lost 100 euros! Her aunt had given her to her family and she didn't found them. She was really nervous but an italian told her that he would give her the money, so he took out of his pocket 100 euros and gave to my friend. She didn't want to accept the money but the italian insist so much that finally he took them crying. The next day was the our last day in Madrid so we met the italians in the Museo del Prado. We stayed there and then went back to the hotel to take the suitcases, but suddenly I realised that I hadn't the tickets of the bus. My friend went back to our hotel to look for the tickets because I couldn't run because of my foot. The tickets weren't there. We were a little late so we went to the bus station to try to get the tickets somehow. In the end we show our identification cards and we could go up to the bus. We arrived home really tired and I had to go to the hospital the next day because of my foot. Now I have my leg in plaster and I can't go out. Happy holidays for me...