Before I'd travelled to Valdepenas, I'd been friends with some of the other auxiliares on facebook, so I already knew I had people to meet in the area. Most of them were already there, and had their piso's sorted out, so it was just a case of getting in touch with them and then meeting up.
On the first Friday night I was there, I got in contact with one of the girls I knew, called Sara, and so we decided on a place and time to meet eachother. Sara was sharing a piso with 2 other girls who were also auxiliares, Reena and Emma. We went for tapas at a local bar by the main plaza. Little did I know, tapas came free when you ordered a drink each. This was like a full meal for me, as I don't eat much as it is anyway, so I gladly ate.
It's a wonder how they make their money really, if you take into account I'd only paid for a coke and got a free sandwich and chips that obviously had the costs of bread, bacon, chips, the wages of the staff and the rent of the building. But the place is just SO busy every night that I can understand how they make a profit.
Anyway, everyone was very nice and we all talked about where we came from, what we did over summer, where we want to travel to, etc. Not awkward one bit really.
Also during my first weekend I met Paul and Ismay, two other auxiliares in the area who I'd previously met over facebook, and so the group of us from Friday night, as well as Paul and Ismay went for more tapas at a different bar in the plaza.
There are actually more auxiliares here than I'd previously anticipated there would be, which bodes well for travelling to different cities together, something I'm really excited to do, especially to the cities where friends from University are staying. Hopefully, this year will be a good year!
That's it for this blog anyway, during my next blog I will talk about the Induction course in Ciudad Real and
after that, my first full week of school.
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