Monday, Monday...

It was hard to get up this morning! For some reason, I woke up a lot last night. Vivian didn't sleep well either. Maybe there were noises or something outside...it's definitely been getting hotter! We made it to the IES Center nice and early, so we had about 15 minutes to relax before class. My grammar class is not boring, but it's all a review of stuff I've already done, so sometimes it's hard to concentrate, and even harder to stay awake! Art History was a little boring, since we were confined to the classroom today. We will have discussion every Monday because the Prado is closed on Mondays :( But we will have class there tomorrow! I'm really looking forward to it!

After classes, Vivian and I came back to the apartment and relaxed a little and ate La Comida. She still isn't feeling well from not sleeping last night, so she didn't go with me when I went with a group from the program to the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. It's a 20th century-1980s art museum that used to be an 18th century hospital. It was beautiful! It felt amazing to be in the same work as artists such as Dali and Picasso. The most amazing painting was definitely Guernica. It was absolutely stunning, and I can't believe I got to be in the same room with it! It's almost as big as the entire wall, and it had two guards to itself! Very important stuff... I was also glad to see some photography. I know there won't be any at the Prado. I saw an image by Man Ray, who I heard a lot about in the History of Photography class last semester at Trinity. AWESOME!

I bought a poster of Guernica in the Museum gift shop. I'm going to get it framed when I get home!