DAMN YOU STEVEN SEAGAL

For you´re smooth one-liners and sweet karate moves. One of the things I was most looking forward too during my time here in Valencia was trying my hand at touch rugby. I´ve never played before but like the concept (sacrificing your body then drinking the pain away). The ´team,´ and I use that word in the loosest or terms, meets every sunday at 10:30 AM. Saturday night wasn´t even a big night for me as I was getting over my ailment/still hurting from Octoberfest. I was home by midnight and turned on the tele to relax a bit and what comes on but ¨Under Seige.¨ It turns out that BADASS is an international language and I stayed up all night watching it, overslept, and missed my Rugby.

The Rugby is held in El Rio, which is spanish for The Rio. It´s a river that surrounds the city that the spanish drained. Although this sounds like a terrible idea, it actually worked out quite well form them. Now, in its place, is a stretch of about 8km of park/greenery that has football, baseball, and rugby field, in addition to fountains, playgrounds, bike trails etc. Quite magniicent really and I live about a block away from it.

I went to the Botanical gardens on Sunday to make up for feeling so lazy. Although they have over 80,000 different types of plants, they were all green and there was little color. Still pretty nice though. On my way back I got on a bus. As I sat down the bus driver got off, threw his beer away, lit up a cigarette and started talking to his girlfriend outside the bus. Everyone in the bus kinda questioned it...but not really. For 10 minutes I watched him smoke, flirt, and joke with his gf´s illegitimate child. At one point the kid ran on the bus, behind the drivers seat and hit a bunch of buttons. He activated the hydraulics (used to raise and lower for passengers) and the bus lifted up. Did he reprimand the kid? Nope, just rubbed his hair in a rapscallion manner. I probably could have walked by the time this all finished transpiring, but I stayed on the bus and made it home safe. Welcome to spain.