Oh hey blog!

Oh hey blog!

My apologies for not writing sooner, my blog followers!  I can't tell you how many times that I thought about blogging but let other things get in the way.  I'm very sorry.  But, I did somewhat make a mental list of everything I wanted to tell y'all about.  Let's see how much of it I remember...

Last weekend, our program (13 of us) headed to Sevilla and Córdoba.  We spent a day in each city but saw a bunch of sites.  We dominated Sevilla as we headed to the Plaza de España, Alcázar, Catedral and la Giralda tower, Plaza de toros, Torre de Oro and Barrio la Triana.  My favorite was Plaza de España, which is a huge, gorgeous plaza that is dedicated to the entire country.  The plaza boasts tile representations of Spanish cities as well as a grand building.  Supposedly a scene from a Star Wars episode was filmed there? (I might be totally off on that but I thought that's what our host mom told my roommate, Suzanne and I...)  Nevertheless, Sevilla is awesome and if you ever venture to Spain--go to Sevilla.  On Sunday, we headed to Córdoba and visited the Mezquita, which is an old mosque built by the Omeyas, an Arab family.  The Thursday prior to visiting Córdoba, I learned all about the Mezquita in my art history of Spain class so I knew a lot about the Mezquita before visiting it! I love when information you learn in class comes handy in the real world. Haha!

I'm really loving Spain, especially Granada and I think I'm finally getting adjusted to everything! Whoop! I cannot emphasize enough how much I truly loving walking everywhere here. It is so awesome and no matter where you walk, there's always a gorgeous view to see! And since everyone walks here every day, it's inevitable that you'll run into someone you know.  Two Fridays ago, me, Christina, Suzanne, Pam, and Alex headed up to Sacromonte, a neighborhood in Granada on top of a hill.  We went there in search of the perfect place to watch a sunset because we heard that Bill Clinton witnessed the most beautiful sunset of his life near this neighborhood.  We didn't find the specific spot he was talking about but we did stumble upon four (yes, four!) people that we knew while venturing up to this area and a wonderful spot to watch the sun set.  I just couldn't get over the fact that we saw 4 people that we knew on our way up there! It was crazy.

Turns out that Bill Clinton has seen the most beautiful sunset of his life here in Granada but not in Sacramonte--but at a place called San Nicolas.  I will definitely watch the sun set from there at some point and report back to you all about it.

This past Friday, several friends and I headed to Nerja Beach for some fun in the sun (ok that line was a little cheesy but we did have fun while in the sun)! We took an Andalucian (the southern region of Spain) bus down there.  Round trip it cost us about 17 euro! Not bad considering the ride was 2 hours and this bus was nicer than a CoachUSA bus.  Nerja was absolutely beautiful though.  We laid on the beach for hours soaking up the sun and the gorgeous view of the Mediterranean Sea that was right before our eyes.  After a successful day at the beach, we each enjoyed a cone of gelato. YUM.

Gelato is so common here in Granada, well southern Spain, really.  I feel like I'm in Italy or something.  I've realized that I actually enjoy gelato (and frozen yogurt) more than the ice cream that we have in the US. (Sorry, Blue Bell...)  On another food note, I don't know if I've mentioned this or not but I really love oranges now.  I rarely ate them in the US, but here I eat them almost every day.

I have to give a shout out to my girl, Alex! Alex is a friend in my program who is from Wisconsin.  Suzanne, Christina and I (the three Aggies) have told Alex ALL about the great state of Texas and the wonderful university that is Texas A&M University. We've pretty much made her an honorary Aggie.  Whoop!!!

Gotta go! It's dinner time.  Dinner at 10pm. Gotta love it.

Ciao!
Kelli

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