Confessions of A Working Girl

So I decided to take the 5:50 am train into Madrid on Friday, so that I would get to the consulate around 9, when I thought they opened. It turned out that they didn’t open until 9:30, but since I didn’t get to the consulate until 9:07 or so, I figured that it was easier to wait, rather than go away and come back. I didn’t end up waiting by myself either, since a lady who had lost her passport came to wait for the consulate to open as well.

Once in the consulate, it took all of 15 minutes to collect my passport and get out of the consulate. Plus, the visa was free! I’m not sure why, but they said that I didn’t have to pay for it. I think that maybe the program paid for it already?

Anyway, after that I decided to go to a nearby museum, the National Museum of Natural Science. I figured that since I liked the Science museum in Boston, this one couldn’t be that bad. It was slightly smaller than I’d expected, but then, it seemed that most for their exhibits were in the process of being changed.

The people at the museum were very helpful! One took a picture of me near one of the exhibits for me, and helped me find information on some of the exhibits that I had questions about. The other I met in a different part of the building, and he showed me that if I looked between two of the cases, I could see part of the closed dinosaurs’ exhibit, since the dinosaurs were so tall.

I spent about 2 ½ hours in the museum, then had to head back to the train station to take the train back to Salamanca.