It's cool, Hemingway is my DD

The first thing that I would like to share is that today I won a half a gallon of milk at the grocery store today. I can already tell that it's going to be an amazing day and would like to thank the academy for making this moment possible.

But anyway, now it's time for a serious matter that I have come to notice after weeks of careful observation, Madrid has direction problems. It's something that you would never notice as you sit at a cafe and watch city life, but after a while you start to see it. My first example is that people drive here on the right, given that they are on one of the rare streets with multiple lanes. Yet, the Madrid metro system uses the English system of moving forward on the left lane. But that’s not all, it seems that every metro station decided to flip a coin on which way they would set up their escalator or stair system, sometimes you go up on the left and other times you’re going up on the right. This can lead to much confusion if you do don’t pay close attention to where you’re going. I’m curious to know if it has anything to do with the flow of human traffic, but I have yet to find anything to support this theory. For a long time I thought this only applied to the metro system, but I have now finally come to realize that every Madrilèno on the streets also flips a direction coin in their head. I never know if someone moving towards me is going to pass me on the left or the right which has gotten me some interesting looks from elderly Spanish women. So I say this to you now, if I bump into you when I see you next, then I’m sorry but it seems I’ve grown my own direction coin. Welcome to Madrid, and now it’s time for a siesta before scuba classes. Adios!