What I've been up to lately
Since I do not have a camera anymore I do not have any pictures to go along with my stories. That makes it hard to come up with something good to blog about. I try to get pictures from all of my friends but sometimes that is hard. But I'll get up to date!
Before all of the crazy stuff happened I became part of a statistic here in Granada. Every year they have a Spring Festival to commemorate that spring has come. This year it happened to fall on St. Patty's day. But anyways the festival is basically a huge botellon. A botellon is simply put drinking in the street with friends. Well over the years this "Macrobotellon" have become a competition between the cities as to see who can have the most people. Last year Sevilla beat Granada so the people of Granada were determined to win this year. I thought that it would be a neat thing to check out so I went down with a couple friends of mine and we were standing on the outskirts just admiring this phenomenon. It was amazing how many people were there. Nik went up onto this concrete block to get a better view while Casey and I stood down below. Later on Nik convinced us to get up on the block. We did and I was glad we did because you could see so much from up there. It was a huge sea of people with dark hair. Haha I didn't stand out or anything. There were photographers up on the block taking pictures. One of the guys asked me why I wasn't drinking. I told him that I didn't want to start quite yet (mind you it was only about 6pm) and he was like "well drink something becuase I want to take a picture of you". So Nik handed me his bottle of wine and I started drinking and the guy took some pictures. I asked him afterward which newspaper he worked for. He told me Granada Hoy and so the next day I went out and bought it...and guess what there I was. Oh and we definitely beat Sevilla this year, there was about 30,000 people there. The next day in class these two girls who I had seen there told me that I was in the newspaper. I was like yeah I know Granada Hoy, but they were like no...you were on the front page of Ideal. They showed me and sure enough I was. So needless to say I made it into two of the most popular newspapers in Granada.
During all of the moving and switching houses I went to Cordoba. It was only a day trip but it is a beautiful little city. The main attraction there is a mosque that has been converted into a cathedral. It was such a weird juxtapostion to see this catholic cathedral smack dab in the middle of a mosque. I do have pictures (I'm not sure if they do it justice) but when I get them I will put them up...they are from my friends camera. After the mosque we went to lunch and then the Arab baths. Since I had already been to the ones in Granada I was able to compare...I must say the ones in Granada are way better! After the baths we were all so relaxed and we weren't really excited to go see a castle that probably looked like all of the other ones we had been in so we went and sat in a park and enjoyed the sun! And that was Cordoba!
The next weekend I went to Nerja, which is a beach town on the Mediterranean Coast, to celebrate a friends birthday. It was such a cute town. We found a little cove all to ourselves and laid in the sun all day and swam in the sea. That is pretty much all that you can do in Nerja. However they do have some old caves there but I'll save that for when Mom and Dad come! We were blessed with gorgeous weather though. If I can get some pictures from my friends I will.
We were only there for a night because on Saturday of that weekend in Granada there was a bull fight. It was a festival put on by the Down Syndrome Society as a fundraiser. So it was slightly different then a real bull fight but nonetheless the bulls did die. It was such an interesting cultural experience. Everyone was really into it. The hardest part to watch was of couse when the bull died especially because sometimes the matador wouldn't get the sword in the right part of the bull's spine so it wouldn't die right away and you just had to sit there and watch it suffer. Only once did one of the matadors do it right where the bull dropped down with in 10 seconds. The neat part was seeing all of the passes. It was like a special little dance between the bull and the matador. Some of the matadors had some really crazy tricks. And once a matador did get bucked but he was okay and able to walk away from it. I do have picutres of this because Shannon was with me for it.
My week after that was crazy because I had midterms and papers and I had to pack and get ready for Italy. Two nights before I left for Italy I pulled an all nighter for a huge test and then the night before I left I was up late packing and then I had to get up early for my flight. So needless to say I was definitely tired. But Italy was worth it and you'll have to wait till my next blog for that!
http://community.webshots.com/user/madmorepics some new ones but there will be more later
Before all of the crazy stuff happened I became part of a statistic here in Granada. Every year they have a Spring Festival to commemorate that spring has come. This year it happened to fall on St. Patty's day. But anyways the festival is basically a huge botellon. A botellon is simply put drinking in the street with friends. Well over the years this "Macrobotellon" have become a competition between the cities as to see who can have the most people. Last year Sevilla beat Granada so the people of Granada were determined to win this year. I thought that it would be a neat thing to check out so I went down with a couple friends of mine and we were standing on the outskirts just admiring this phenomenon. It was amazing how many people were there. Nik went up onto this concrete block to get a better view while Casey and I stood down below. Later on Nik convinced us to get up on the block. We did and I was glad we did because you could see so much from up there. It was a huge sea of people with dark hair. Haha I didn't stand out or anything. There were photographers up on the block taking pictures. One of the guys asked me why I wasn't drinking. I told him that I didn't want to start quite yet (mind you it was only about 6pm) and he was like "well drink something becuase I want to take a picture of you". So Nik handed me his bottle of wine and I started drinking and the guy took some pictures. I asked him afterward which newspaper he worked for. He told me Granada Hoy and so the next day I went out and bought it...and guess what there I was. Oh and we definitely beat Sevilla this year, there was about 30,000 people there. The next day in class these two girls who I had seen there told me that I was in the newspaper. I was like yeah I know Granada Hoy, but they were like no...you were on the front page of Ideal. They showed me and sure enough I was. So needless to say I made it into two of the most popular newspapers in Granada.
During all of the moving and switching houses I went to Cordoba. It was only a day trip but it is a beautiful little city. The main attraction there is a mosque that has been converted into a cathedral. It was such a weird juxtapostion to see this catholic cathedral smack dab in the middle of a mosque. I do have pictures (I'm not sure if they do it justice) but when I get them I will put them up...they are from my friends camera. After the mosque we went to lunch and then the Arab baths. Since I had already been to the ones in Granada I was able to compare...I must say the ones in Granada are way better! After the baths we were all so relaxed and we weren't really excited to go see a castle that probably looked like all of the other ones we had been in so we went and sat in a park and enjoyed the sun! And that was Cordoba!
The next weekend I went to Nerja, which is a beach town on the Mediterranean Coast, to celebrate a friends birthday. It was such a cute town. We found a little cove all to ourselves and laid in the sun all day and swam in the sea. That is pretty much all that you can do in Nerja. However they do have some old caves there but I'll save that for when Mom and Dad come! We were blessed with gorgeous weather though. If I can get some pictures from my friends I will.
We were only there for a night because on Saturday of that weekend in Granada there was a bull fight. It was a festival put on by the Down Syndrome Society as a fundraiser. So it was slightly different then a real bull fight but nonetheless the bulls did die. It was such an interesting cultural experience. Everyone was really into it. The hardest part to watch was of couse when the bull died especially because sometimes the matador wouldn't get the sword in the right part of the bull's spine so it wouldn't die right away and you just had to sit there and watch it suffer. Only once did one of the matadors do it right where the bull dropped down with in 10 seconds. The neat part was seeing all of the passes. It was like a special little dance between the bull and the matador. Some of the matadors had some really crazy tricks. And once a matador did get bucked but he was okay and able to walk away from it. I do have picutres of this because Shannon was with me for it.
My week after that was crazy because I had midterms and papers and I had to pack and get ready for Italy. Two nights before I left for Italy I pulled an all nighter for a huge test and then the night before I left I was up late packing and then I had to get up early for my flight. So needless to say I was definitely tired. But Italy was worth it and you'll have to wait till my next blog for that!
http://community.webshots.com/user/madmorepics some new ones but there will be more later
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