Psh, I thought I could do this. Guess I can't :/
So.
Friday, 19th August 2011
Today I woke up, and realized that the sore in my throat
(or should it be "on my throat" for literal's sake? XD) was still there.
Which meant, I'm stuck with a sore throat in Spain. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
D: D:
And me stingy stingy on Euros decided -NOT- to get meself any meds.
It's okay. As long as I drink lots of water, the sore will go away :D
It didn't, but meh wtheck ._.
So today too, we got up slightly late, but made it in time to church.
As the days go by,
*actually, I remember something XD
We, the Malaysian contigent, performed "Jesus is my Rock" in Malay and English
and "Yesus Pokok dan Kitalah Cabang-Nya".
(cause they were action songs and we were suddenly in charge of the Ice Breaker XD)
Okay, I remember he was funny.
Or something. :/
I know the previous Catechesis was about the Name of Jesus
(because the Cardinal mentioned that was the first time he talked about the name of Jesus
even though he was a priest... bishop... archbishop... cardinal... for xxx years)
Which got some of us laughing and most of us clapping XD
No, I honestly don't remember what he said x.x
At all D: Drat -___________-;;
Well, not even a question or answer from the Q&A today struck me.
Oh wait, there's one o.o
Asked by one of us, that's why I remember it XD
The question was, everything at home in the Mass is done so routinely,
so how could we not follow the Mass so... routinely as though having blind faith.
*the person who asked this had a mohawk tipped in red hair dye.
The Emcee asked, "Is that really YOUR question?" rofl!! XD XD
The answer was, it differs with every individual.
A person may have a totally different and personal experience in the Mass
to the person he/she's sitting next to.
While the Mass was fixed with all its structure,
the experience with Jesus is what makes it different to the person sitting next to him/her.
The Cardinal with his full Mass attire
Yup. After Mass, we went as a whole group to... town.
The actual fact is, we could go to see the statues for the stations of the Cross that they've put up.
So while we went to the train station to look for a place to eat,
we went to Avenida de America station (and we got off there).
Guess what? We met a fellow Malaysian there who was working - in Spain! :o
She was an Indian lady working for one of the telcos there.
Our group leaders had small talk with her, and then she started giving us gifts o.o
She gave us pens, notepads, book covers... o.o
and she even gave us mousepads 8D
When we told her that we were looking for a good place to eat lunch,
she told us where to find good Indian food XD
But we didn't go ahead and followed her advice.
I remembered that we went to Tony Romas instead.
And it was either hamburger or sandwich.
*OMiGosh! All they [Spanish restaurants] had were sandwiches :'(
So hamburger it was...
But we had to wait for quite some time before actually having a place to sit down and eat.
Hence this bored-me looking photograph:
Yeah, I didn't know it was taken =_=;;
Seriously not so... happy and excited; the throat is sore and didn't want to drink water :/
And I was wondering what time was lunch...
The clock struck 3pm and still no lunch in sight D:
*Uhm, I think it's normal there for that to happen :o
When we finally got our seating area,
we waited for our order to come.
It was one long wait :o
But while waiting, we cam-happy and also conversed with another group who was also
waiting for their lunch.
It turns out, they were from the Dominican Republic! :o
And yeah, at first it was just these 3 people:
And then... o.o
We were sitting at one far end of the corner, so no one
could tell us what to do with our photo crazy session XD
With flash :D
After, a dynamic group discussion went on about the Dominican Republic's culture and origin.
Rachel said that their dances were the bachata or something o.o
And then Irene asked them, and
*I think she said, but I could be totally wrong here XD
told them that Rachel could dance the Bachata :o
And she HAD to go and demo with this guy :D
I'm too lazy to edit now that I can see so clearly here.
If I saw it later, I would've cropped it x.x
Sorry D:
After their food came, they started to concentrate on their food.
And we reduced talk to amongst ourselves XD
Then the waitress came and everyone ordered their drinks,
but she didn't ask for the food :o
Oh well.
Then suddenly, the group that sat next to us
(the Dominican Repulic contigent sat behind me,
so this group I'm talking about sat on my left)
started singing, "Happy Birthday."
I suppose one of their members had a birthday that day.
So after they finished, our table sang the Happy Birthday for them in English.
Then in Malay XD
After we finished, another group across the restaurant sang it too.
And soon after they finished, another group somewhere in that area sang Happy Birthday
in their language XD
It was lolz XD XD
And soon after, our food came!! 8D 8D
Not like Malaysia don't have, but... just sampating :D
This was totally lovely! ♥
The patty was definitely beef (better than sandwich) and homemade :D
And btw, an early note:
I didn't know then, but I know now.
I had "pork burger" here.
Yes peeps, I'm spoiling the fun for you.
"Pork burger" was actually chicken/beef burger with bacon in it.
*as I discovered on the plane from Madrid to Amman
So this counts as a "pork burger".
Oh yeah.
It was DELIII!! :D :D
After lunch, it was already 5pm.
The time where the Voluntario started closing off the paths to the Stations of the Cross.
Which also meant, no photo time with all the statues of the Stations :(
Oh well.
We left Tony Romas somewhere around 5pm, (after toilet breaks and all)
and then we went off to find a place where the small group of us could sit and camp :D
And very nicely, we got a good seat, and there was enough space for all of us to sit there.
And... I sat with my mouse pad on the tar road :x
*It was kinda dirty kay? (the road, I mean) D:
And we knew very well that they were going to spray us with water again.
Why? Take a look:
All they have to do now is to turn on the tap:
and we'd be their victims D:
Since the Way of the Cross starts at 7pm, we had about 2 hours to watch... something.
Unfortunately, there wasn't much to watch except the group in front of us...
Where there was this really mischievious guy who kept spraying girls with free water.
And a guy and girl were sleeping like on top each other like brother sister kind of close,
but I think they weren't brother sister ._.
I then realized that the whole group were couples.
And there were 3 pairs ._. AH DOIIIII *face palm*
So while I was struggling to ignore them,
*but really, I couldn't. They were right in front of me, where did you want me to look? :/
or watch the mischievious guy spray water on the Voluntario and his group girls,
my sister began taking shots. Enjoy her scenery :D
Unidentified flag :x
Can you see the crowd of people? D:
Honestly, this is just 400,000 people.
The one in Philipines was with 4 million people ._.
It must have been 10 times worse XD
I'll bet the streets were all flooded not wtih tsunami, but with people.
On the screen right in front.
I don't think there's actually some scape to even sit down o.o
And as you get nearer to Cibeles, it becomes more and more concentrated with people :o
Yup, they were sitting up there, on the phone booth.
Maybe for the space and also to prevent people from
blocking their view from the screen (vice versa, too!)
Man it was huge :o
*clear too!!
Okay, so the Italians were sitting behind us.
They had a mat laid out and all, and they took off their shoes so they could...
Idk, do whatever with a clean mat (like lie down?)
And there were (I consider them quite) rude people who decided that they wanted to go all the way back and had to go through the Italian's space.
A lot of them felt that way.
And the Italians just kept asking them to not cross.
And the rude people, being rude, did as they liked :/
There were other incidents, like how late-comers in their large groups wanted to squeeze in
and then wanted to cross over early birds who were there first,
and early birds just diplomatically told them not to, and asked them to use another way
(cause I think the latecomers realized they can't squeeze in between the early birds)...
all the early birds would have become Angry Birds...
Such is the fuss when there's a large crowd of people :o
Monica took photos somewhere in between the Stations.
Sorry if the glare is there, since these were all taken from the large screen in front of us.
One of the Stations.
I think it's the First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Death
Yes, they had statues for all the stations.
I'm really sorry that you only get to see them from the screen.
That's the best I could do :(
The way they did it was just like it was Lent season.
They had appointed youths from different countries, backgrounds and afflictions
to carry the Cross and stop just in front of the statues while the crowd joins Papa
in prayer.
*The Cross is behind there.
This should be the Second Station: Jesus Receives His Cross
On the right of Monica. I was on the left and looking no less like this.
That's why I'm quite vague with the sequence.
Busy looking at the English translation to follow the prayer ceremony
since the spoken language was in Latin/Spanish.
This should be the Third Station: Jesus Falls for the First Time
The youths are putting the Cross up.
The Tenth Station: Jesus is Stripped of His Garments
Uh, I'm not too sure about this statue.
It could be a second part of the thirteenth station.
Full scene.
*Yeah, the two people standing there are the guards sent by
Pilate after the request was insisted upon by the chief priests.
Close up two
When the Via Crutis (Way of the Cross) prayer finished,
we went, single file towards the Love and Life Center.
*following the group leaders.
On the way, we passed by the street where Papa was passing by.
Me, satisfied by the video that I took, didn't take my camera out for a second shot at Papa.
Monica did though, but she couldn't get a good footage :x
But she did get this:
I wonder how he actually got up there ._.
There was a couple in front of us, smiling at us because
they knew that the people in front were super tall...
and it was the wrong place for us petite people to be...
because we were at the back. Literally ._.
*err... I think they offered to help us take photos of Papa...
but I couldn't confirm it :/
I don't think anyone from the group handed over the camera though...
After that, we went, hands on bags, bags on shoulders, single file and navigated through the crowd.
Every group were like snakes.
If possible, we didn't want to let people break our chain, or else we may loose our leader
and then get lost in a sea of pilgrims D:
And then we were stuck D:
Near the junction, of somewhere.
*actually, it was a zebra crossing. We were supposed to cross,
but because the crowd was too large, we were stuck. :x
And then, this guy made eye contact with my sis, and he said hi.
So she replied with a hi ;)
And they started talking.
Of course, I'm the shy one *blush* so after my sis started talking,
I jumped in and asked if he had anything to exchange :x
Nope he didn't. :(
So I just gave him the souvenir.
And he gave me a hug. *supposedly :/
Then we asked to take a photo with him.
My sis took one photo, but ONLY of him, without US DX
He took a photo with all of us :D
I wanted a photo too in my camera, but before I could even take my camera out,
*busy watching my sis's camera so I kept mine.
it was time to say goodbye ;_; (time to cross the road)
This pic.
Belongs to my sis. Without any of us ;_;
Oh yeah, here's a funny story (I found it funny):
He had this friend who asked my sister, "You got hot?"
Sis didn't know what to reply, so he corrected his friend, and said, "No, are you feeling hot?"
rofl!! XD
I thought that was Manglish XD XD
*short for Malaysian English
My sister laughed, and said, yeah. So the friend took out his WYD fan and fanned her, awwww XD
After we crossed the road and all, we had to stop again.
All of the sudden, my sister turned around and hugged me O_O
And I knew she wasn't the hugging-type *she hates sisterly lovey dovey
so I asked her what that was about.
She replied... "Just taking the hug that guy gave you." 8D
Instead of going bonkers and asking where she picked that attitude from, I asked her this:
"What? He hugged me? Since when?" o.o
And her facial expression changed to this: =.=;; =.=;; =.=;;
"You so blurrrr until you don't know that a cute guy hug you =.=;;"
^Yup, she said that.
And I just "huh?!" at her all the way through her explanation, and I tried my best to recall it.
And I didn't, really. :/ *still don't XD
Then I told her that she didn't need to be jealous, since she talked to him FIRST,
and he wrote down his name so that she could find him in FB.
*Turns out, the name wasn't his, but the guy who fanned her LOL XD XD
Okay, enough about this guy stuff. This experience was really ROFLL!!!! for me,
especially with the blurrrrr me and my *suddenly* jealous sister :x
Haha XD
Kk, we then walked to the Love and Life Centre to attend the Eucharistic Adoration.
And for some reason, I couldn't concentrate.
I was thinking to myself, that the Lord is eluding Himself away from me. Again.
Like that time at the stay-in retreat on Saturday before I received my vocation calling.
Then I wondered if it was because I didn't go confession D:
Then I felt like I should've gone... ;(
Or maybe it's because I was trying to force myself to listen to His voice.
Cause I peeked (I shouldn't have, that broke my concentration) and saw that my
group member was having a strong connection with Him then.
*sigh* :(
After the Eucharistic Adoration, we wished peace amongst ourselves
Catholics there shake hands while wishing peace amongst each other.
No, we didn't bow down like we do in church, we followed suit.
And that was where my leg hit the extension (flag) pole and
sent it rolling behind the seat towards the unknown D: D: D:
Great, second mistake that day ;_;
After (much searching for the pole before I arrived that that conclusion
because I couldn't find it anywhere) that,
we went to queue up to eat Telepizza!!
which was like Dominos Pizza or some pizzeria.
We each received a pizza, some tuna thingy with veggies, and water.
*My host family's tap water was way more delicious than the mineral water, so I didn't drink it.
I only ate the tuna thingy and it turned out sour D:
That was the taste of anything that came out from a white plastic container -______-;;
My sis ate a slice, and I didn't. Was too full with... something o.o
So we brought the pizzas back home.
One of the group members couldn't finish their pizzas too, so they gave them to us.
After dinner, we walked to the train station and went back home.
The host family was delighted to take the pizzas... I know I would love them too XD
*Next morning, the pizzas were finished :x
I knew cause I saw the fridge when the father opened it to get milk.
I think we reached home at about 11pm plus :D
Okay peeps. Good night.
I need to work on Day 8 and 9 soon!! 8D
*Probably I'll have to combine the two since there aren't many pics.
I'll see how it goes :x
PS: I know that the Via Crutis pictures were my sister's,
but I had to edit them a little so that you could see the statues from the glare of the sun.
*Darkened the photos, obviously.
All credits of photos goes to her unless stated.
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