Week 2

          This week began our intensive language session. We have to take a language session for two weeks and all it is is going over the grammar we've learned for however many years we've been studying this language! O well. It's a pretty fun class. I've met more people and wow do some of them have a lot of energy, it's hard for me to even keep up with them if you can believe it. In our class we also have to go out and do things in order to experience Sevilla in its true form. This week we had to go to a store called "El Corte Ingles." It's a huge store so imagine a grocery store, a hardware store, IKEA, clothes, Target, travel agency, optometrist, bookstore, electronics, and so on all rolled into one and there is "El Corte Ingles." Also we had to make an authentic Spanish dish and write out the recipe. My Señora taught me how to make gazpacho and it was by far the favorite gazpacho of the four brought in! It's so easy to make and I can easily bring this one back to the states with me!


          Tuesday! Today we visited La Catedral an La Giralda. Okay this was just straight up breathtaking! When we walked in I just couldn't even believe what we were standing in. This place has been here for centuries and is still standing! The inside is even more beautiful than the outside. There are tapestries, statues, paintings, gold and silver everywhere. I just cannot describe it. Then we climbed La Giralda and the views were insane!


          On Tuesday my orientation leader also decided to take a bunch of people out to tapas, drinks, and a bar! It was so fun to be around new people and I made a bunch of friends that night! But when we were in the bar there were some 40 year old hipster men that were staring at my friends and I dancing.. Now you all know how I dance. It is not seductive in any way whatsoever! I don't know why they were staring but we blew that popsicle stand as fast as we could!


          MALAGA!!! So over the weekend there were a few of us that decided to take a trip of our own and our destination was Malaga! Unfortunately I was a little under the weather so I couldn't fully enjoy our experience but it was still great. We took the train there and right after we found where we were staying we hit the beach! Easiest description I can think of: Sun, Sand, Salt. It was so beautiful! That night we went out to dinner and we sat right in the harbor and could see the Castle in the distance and boats lit up everywhere and the beautiful skyline of the city! After we decided to sleep instead of go out we headed back and as soon as my head hit the pillow at 11 I was out for 11 hours. Best decision made yet. Then we had breakfast, walked around a bit, I bought some porcelain earrings, and walked around. Chloe, Lauren and I all decided to start a tradition of buying postcards whenever we go somewhere so we bought them and we can't wait to see how many we've collected by the end of the trip. Anywho, we took the train back to Seville, which I am now starting to call home, and then ate dinner. Overall this wasn't the most exciting week, but it was still pretty darn tootin full and I had a great time!

   






     




          Oh yeah.... also we had some time to kill in the train station... Meet Lauren and Chloe everyone!