Week of Culture

Welcome to what my friends and I are calling “The Week of Culture”. You see, there is a very simple premise to this fun-tastic new week. BU will pay for us to do cultural things (museums, Spanish movies, theatre, historical monuments, etc.) and we receive up to €6,00 back (and even more in some places, but that’s not the point right now). Seeing how much money we’ve all thrown at BU (either just for this semester or, you know, that whole $40,000 a year thing that’s been going on for the past 3 ½ years…) we are trying to get our moneys worth while doing things that we’d want to do anyway… So here is a summary (with prices) of how the week has begun!

Friday Evening:

After much wandering and a pretty decent dinner of tapas, we stumble upon a movie theatre and decide to see something. Our choice, Mataharis a Spanish film set in Madrid that follows the lives of three private investigators and how their work effects the other aspects of their lives.

PRICE: €6,50 TOTAL AMOUNT REIMBURSED: €6,00

Saturday:

After seeing and very much enjoying the movie the previous night, we decide to make Saturday a museum-tastic event and try to rack up some more moolah. After my lunch at Rodilla (a really, really crappy sandwich place) with the schizophrenic clown (ask me about him and I’ll tell you… It is as creepy as it sounds, but not nearly as interesting) we headed over to the Archeology Museum… Now being that it was after 14:30 on a Saturday there was no charge for admission (danm! Only kidding… kinda…)

PRICE: €0,00 TOTAL AMOUNT REIMBURSED: €0,00

Anyway after exploring a few past civilizations we decided to head over to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. This absolutely gorgeous museum with a collection to die for (although a bit controversial seeing as most of its art was bought from Jews and others escaping Germany during the Holocaust…) was closing in an hour from when we arrived, but we decided to go anyway (hey, why not right?) and give ourselves the speed tour. All I know is, I cannot wait to go back and actually take some time to look at things.

PRICE: €4,00 TOTAL AMOUNT REIMBURSED: €4,00

After our quick jog through the Thyssen, we decided to head over to the Botanic Gardens (again, why not, it is basically free). They had finished renovating a few of the gardens in the ½ week since I’d been there last and it was really fun to see the vegetables and lettuce growing and even to taste some of them (although we later saw a sign strictly instructing us not to eat the produce because it is coated in toxins about once every two days… Oops!) But the gardens too were closing quickly so that visit had to be cut short as well.

PRICE: €1,00 TOTAL AMOUNT REIMBURSED: €1,00

Sunday:

I went to a bullfight. Don’t judge me just yet. Wait for the next entry.

PRICE €4,20 TOTAL AMOUNT REIMBURSED: €4,20


That brings this weekends total amount of reimbursement to €18,20 (including a ticket stub to the Reina Sofia given to me by a friends of Sonja’s who was in town visiting before heading to Senegal). THANKS BU!