Went out with the girls on Thursday night...celebrated (maybe a little too hard) the end of the first week of class. Our program allows us to not have class on Fridays, so Thursday night marks the beginning of the weekend. Thus, Thursday night was a night of botellon-ing and chupitos. Fun night which made for a fun Friday morning... :-/
We had our first program trip to Cádiz on Saturday, so the majority of our program stayed in/chilled on Friday night. We had to meet at 9am on Saturday to depart on the 2 hour journey to this peninsula city. Almost completely covered by water, Cádiz is located in Southern Spain.
We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day. It was a chilly start, but it warmed up to 70 degrees and sunny (I also heard it warmed up in Wisconsin as well...not quite as much though :D). Once we got to Cádiz, we had a bus tour, followed by a walking tour, followed by lunch and free time. Cádiz is pretty small, there wasn't much to see besides beaches and the Catedral...but nonetheless beautiful and a great time. We got to go to the top of the Cathedral and take pictures from the top of the city which was breathtaking. Then we walked through El Centro and El Mercado. The market was kind of like a farmer's market - outside, lots of vendors and lots of fresh (literally) fruit and seafood.
Saturday night was a fun night as well. Met with my intercambio, Carmen and her friends. We got dinner at the Spaniard-favorite restaurant, Coloniales and went to a bar to listen and dance to flamenco music. Carmen and her friends are really good at Flamenco dancing...Salima and I, not so much. She tried teaching us...we kind of caught on but mostly just milked it to make it look like we knew what we were doing. We also thought about teaching them how to Dougie but didn't think the Flamenco band would know how to play the song :(
(My intercambio, Carmen)
Found out a good piece of information yesterday. I have been wondering about how difficult it is to send packages here - I had heard that packages usually have to go through customs and the recipient has to pay an absurd amount of money to pick the package up. BUT, a fellow program participant had her mother send her peanut butter and chocolate - she received the package within a week from when it was sent in the US and didn't have to pay anything. So here´s my address, just incase you need it ;)
Michelle Fleming
Calle Juan Antonio Cabestany 22, 4-2
41018 - Seville, Spain
(also, you can see my apartment if you put this address into GoogleMaps. It's a big brick building on the right. The door is an arch-like shape with black bars)
Now, off to walk around in El Centro - anything to avoid reading the 70 pages I'm supposed to have read for the suggested due date this past Friday. Good thing it's only a suggested deadline. Adios amigos <3
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