Salamanca

I am in the hotel in Merida right now, the wifi is sloooowwww. I want to put some photos up for everyone to enjoy. This trip is with the school group and to Caceres, Salamanca, and Merida. The bus ride has been boring and long but the scenery is absolutely fabulous. It makes me want to live in the country and be a farmer or something dull. It is seriously beautiful. Salamanca made me feel a little more at home than Cadiz because it is a city more like Seattle, wider streets, people shopping, etc. But still very different from Seattle. I really liked Salamanca. Also I ran into someone I went to high school with who is studying here, I had no idea. It is one of Tom Dale's friends: Tyler Laws. We didn't end up spending any time together but it was a surprise and a good story. I wanted him to go out with my friends and his and show us the cool bars and clubs to go to. He is studying in the university in Salamanca which my group went to and it is so cool. I think it would be awesome to live there.

Okay, now for the photos:


We went to Caceres to explore the city and eat lunch. Nothing was really open because it was siesta time but this tourist building was.


That night we got to Salamanca and ate McDonalds!


My roommates and me before going out.


We drank wine!


After the wine we went to a bar with a live band. I really, really liked it.


They played good and fun music and had a harmonica player :)


During our tour of Salamanca. We went to a huge cathedral and saw a bunch of other super old buildings.


The pretty fountain in the park in Salamanca.


H&M, obviously.

El desconsuelo

Sundays always seem to put me in a bad mood. I did not do anything yesterday, I was doing pretty okay all day though. I cleaned, thought about school work but didn't really do any, just like in the States. I just hung out all day and did nothing, which is not a big deal... I used to do that in Seattle plenty. Here it makes me super depressed though. Maybe I'm just not doing so well today because I am bored and hungry. In any case, I am not happy and I don't like it.

I had one class so far today, I have another at 4:30PM and then I teach English to Adrián (super cute nine year old boy) after class for an hour. Tomorrow is a holiday in Cádiz, it is like... the Virgin of Rosario day, and that is the city's virgin so they close everything. Should be better than having economics and two literature classes, but still pretty boring. My class schedule is different every day, the only day I've memorized so far (after three weeks?) is Thursday. I have no class on Thursdays. I am getting so fat. I need to find something to cheer me up. I think I'm going to go make some coffee. I miss having lattes every day for my breakfast. I miss so many silly things about life in Seattle and UW. Soo many things...

La locura

I went out Wednesday night, Friday night AND Saturday night last week. Whoa. It was all fun! Sunday night I went to the movies and saw Tropic Thunder in Spanish.

I met some Czech people who are going to play disc with me and I invited all of the Americans to come too. We are going to play tomorrow, rain or shine! Weeeeeeeeeeee

Happy :)

Sevilla

I went on a little day trip to Sevilla today with a girl from my school group. I did not have a great time, I won't elaborate here. But I will put some photos up!

On the train


Me and a painting of Vulcan and Venus


More art


Sevilla's S.L.U.T. equivalent

El ansia

WHY did I choose to live in a place with no ultimate? For an entire YEAR? What was I thinking?!?!

I am trying to find out if there is any ultimate in Cadiz, but I haven't made much progress. Originally I thought there was absolutely zero chance but I have a renewed hope now because of an email I got from a guy in Sevilla. I emailed him and basically asked if they ever have pick-up on the weekends because if so, I would totally go there and play. He responded by replying to my email, ccing me and some other person and sending the mail to some girl named Ana who, from what I can gather from their websites and stuff, is the like.. cocaptain of the Sevilla team with the guy who I originally emailed. The email said, "Ana, can you put her in contact with the guys in Cadiz?" (All of the correspondance has been in Spanish, BTW) so now I am waiting for Ana to get her act together... I am becoming a bit impatient, though. Maybe I will just email this Ana girl, or the other person who was cced on the reply. I have no idea who that person is though.

I just want to play ultimate :( every other city has a team, why not mine??????// :( :(

Actualiza: El horario

I got my schedule all fixed up and worked out today. I talked to Rita, the director of the program here in Cadiz, she is super awesome and wonderful. She did the program through UW year ago and now is married to a guy from Cadiz and is in charge of the program here and is having a baby! I really like her and she is easy to talk to.

My schedule will be okay, some days better than others:

Monday: Grammar 11:00AM-1:00PM, Literature 4:30PM-6:00PM
Tuesday: Economics 11:00AM-12:30PM, Literature 12:30PM-2:00PM, Literature 4:30PM-6:00PM
Wednesday: Literature 10:30AM-12:00PM, Grammar 12:00PM-2:00PM
Thursday: Nada :)
Friday: Economics 12:00PM-1:30PM

M/T/W will be lame but the rest will be super easy I think. And I will be giving English lessons to a lady on Mondays at 6PM in the old part of the city, so it will work out very nicely with this new schedule.

Now I have errands upon errands to run. I hope I don't get harrassed while walking down the street, that is my least favorite part about leaving the apartment.

El aburrimiento

Some photos...

Two from my wild night of glass in my foot:



One of me rocking the Toolbox:


The most ridiculously hilarious menu translation:


And two from the airshow at the beach today:



The last one is me and Michelle, she was in my class the first two weeks and will be in my grammar class this coming semester.

I have one class tomorrow, starts at 11 :) For that I am very happy. This weekend wasn't too noteworthy, stayed in Saturday night, slept in and went to the airshow today. School tomorrow, I hope it is easy and fun.