Party! Party! Party! Party! sleep. (repeat) This is life during the weekend.

So today I'm talking about the fiestas in Spain.

Fiesta has 16 definitions which are:

1. party
2. holiday
3. feast
4. feast day
5. leap day
6. fete
7. feteday
8. shindy
9. shindig
10. convocation
11. frolic
12. do
13. junket
14. gala
15. carnival
16. festival

So as you can see a fiesta can be just about anything you want it to be so long as the people have a good time! Tonight is the continuation of the week-long festivals in Las Rozas which are kinda, sorta, a lil bit, not really like the Fair in EEUU. There's definitely the whole carnival atmosphere, but at the same time almost everyone is more or less drunk (usually more).

You also have to be extremely careful at these festivals. The first night I was at the festivals in Las Rozas I saw 3 fights that were all quite entertaining. Unfortunately these festivals also have a habit of turning into riots at about 6 so it's usually a good idea to leave at about 5 because after that things can get rather nasty. (Apparently the police showed up in riot gear at about 6:30 on Saturday night. I had already left but two of my host brothers stayed until 7 or 8.) Now all you Americans are probably saying "Why on earth would you still be out at 5 AM?!" But you have to remember that everything is several hours later here. I usually eat lunch at 3 and supper at 9 or 10. So people don't actually start leaving their houses until about 12-1, so it's not really that late just scheduled differently.


Before I continue I would like to point out that if you aren't drunk and don't try to mess with any drunk people, you will be fine. They fiestas are also a good deal of fun so if you ever get the opportunity to attend don't avoid it because something bad might happen.

But that's about it for fiestas because I have to go. I got invited to join an american football team so we're going to go check that out.