A Weekend with Joaquin

This weekend, Elena had a conference in Madrid, and Pep went with her, so Joaquin Solbes, one of my Rotary contacts, invited me to spend the weekend at his house. Which worked nicely since Friday I went to the first meeting of the Rotaract club of Alicante. It worked nicely because his daughter, Carmen, has been setting the meeting up and getting everything ready.
We went to the meeting together . The meeting was kinda dull, but then it was mostly technical stuff: when will we meet, what day, what time, what kinds of events do we want to do, etc. Sofia, my friend, had expressed an interest in joining the group and participating in the volunteer projects, so I invited her too. It was a little weird, because the rest of the group is made up of college students, and Sofia and I are the only two (that I know of) that are still in high school that joined. After the meeting, Sofia said she was planning on going to see Twilight, and invited me along. I still don't understand what all the fuss about Twilight is.

Anyway, when I got back to Joaquin's house and we were talking about everyone's plans for the next day, I found out that they fence! Both Joaquin and his son fence, although they haven't done it in years. The country club was starting a new fencing club and Joaquin was going to go. I told him about how I used to fence, so he invited me along. It was an interesting experience. In fencing, there are three types of swords: foil, epée, and saber. Each one has a different style, different scoring area, different rules, etc. Here in Spain, epée is the popular one. I learned foil. In foil, the target is the torso. In epée, it's the entire body. It'll be interesting to get used to that. Joaquin signed up two people for the course, so he'll either take me or his son, depending on who can go. I'm looking forward to it.

After fencing, we cleaned up and went to the grandparents' house for lunch, where I finally had paella, real paella. We had some at the orientation in Madrid, but everyone says that doesn't count. It was good. The paella here, not in Madrid.

The rest of the weekend, what little remained, was kinda slow. Joaquin, the son, and I played pool and some Xbox. Sunday afternoon after lunch, Joaquin took me back to my house and I got ready for another week of school.
But now I have Rotaract and fencing to look forward to.


Currently listening to:
Song: Courage Is...
Artist: The Strange Familiar
Album: You Can't Look Back