velazquez and goya and el greco, oh my!

so this week I have three field trips. do i even go to college here? Today my art history class went to el museo del prado and walked around for 2.5 hours. let me tell you, my feet kind of hurt. it was great though because my class combined with my professor's other class (taught in english) and we just walked around the museum and talked about art. it was great. even though i know a lot about art history, i really did learn a lot. my teacher is amazing and she's so cute. we walked through the museum stopping at almost everything. by the end, the people who worked there were yelling at her because apparently the "explaining" hours ended so you weren't allowed to explain the paintings to groups anymore (?? i don't get spain)...but she said to every person who yelled at her "this is the last one, I swear" and then we'd move on to the next painting. such a bad ass. I love her. And she was complaining about the huge groups of Japanese tourists walking around hahahha. At the last painting, she told us that we have to do it again and after go to a tapas place in Plaza Mayor and get tapas and sangria together. how cute. i can't get enough of her. and she was on her way to go buy a painting for her birthday....and she complained about how her husband loves golf and how every one of his birthdays all he asks for is golf clubs and balls and clothes and she's bored of buying golf stuff...sound familiar??

anyways, it was a great visit and i had a lot of fun. tomorrow i have another field trip to a street called Fuencarral where my photography class is going to walk around and take pictures for a photo story. And then Thursday, my color theory class is going to the Thyssen museum to see the Chagall exhibit. Great great week.