¡Hola!
(Yes, my post title is lame and rather odd, but that song has been stuck in my head for 5 days now. In a moment you will see why.)
I have officially been in Spain for 2 and a half weeks. It seems like way longer than that! Classes are going pretty well. It's a little hard to keep up sometimes, but so far nothing completely awful. I have a couple professors that I love so that helps a lot. But classes are boring and I don't want to talk about them. I just threw that in here because it's expected. The real fun was on the weekend.
Last weekend I went to Seville with a few friends from the program. It was unbelievable. Seville is in the south of Spain and is home to the most incredible cathedral and palace with a river running right through the middle of the city. We shopped and went sight-seeing and had an amazing time. The weather was perfect. Sunny and 70s all weekend (sorry to those who are currently sitting in 15 feet of snow). We stayed at a hostel for two nights and it was pretty decent. They gave us free breakfast so that was pretty cool. And there was a Starbucks right down the street from us! It was fantastic. I've been missing my lattes.
(Sun, 70s, south of Spain? You're getting the title now, right? Okay good. If you aren't then I'm sorry, you can't be helped.)
The first night we went to a famous plaza and park. There's this gorgeous fountain in the
middle of the Plaza and the detail in the architecture of the building was unbelievable. We got lost on our way back to our hostel and went through some sketchy dark allies, but some very nice Spaniards pointed us in the right direction and we made it back.
Saturday was spent at Alcazar Palace (not to be confused with Alcazar Castle, apparently Alcazar was freakin loaded), shopping, at the cathedral there, and we stopped at this cute shop for churros con chocolate (aka: delicious). Saturday night we went to the club called Buddha. It
was awesome! It had three levels and different music on each floor. The place was packed. There was still a line to get into the place when we left at 3:30 am.
Sunday we chilled at a couple different outdoor cafes because we had to be out of our hostel by 10:30 and we had all of our stuff with us. Then we caught the bus back to Caceres that afternoon. The trip was definitely a winner.
A couple things:
1. Yes, I am returning earlier than I had planned. When I bought my tickets I had a job to come back to so returning broke wasn't a big deal. Now, however, I have no such job due to awful managers so coming back broke doesn't seem like a wisest decision. I also miss everyone and I think one month of hostels will be more than enough. I will be back on June 1 rather than June 23 and I am looking forward to seeing all of you at that time.
2. I am doing my best to post regularly, but I have homework every night and a lot going on so I apologize if my posts are really long and spaced farther apart.
3. This weekend I'm going to relax, but next weekend I think we are going on one of the group excursions for my art history class (the coordinator isn't sure yet, that's why I'm not sure). The next weekend I think a few of us are going to go to Rome and see Vatican City and some of the sights there. We found pretty reasonable plane tickets so it's a good time to go. Two weeks after that is spring break and I think I'm going to be heading to Greece for a little over a week. I'm really excited about it!
So, a lot coming up. Keep checking for posts. I'll have a few pictures on here, but the majority are on facebook. Otherwise I'm sure I'll have plenty to show off when I get back!
Love you all!
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