Wednesday we finally made the boxed brownies that I brought as a gift from home. We were encouraged to bring things from the United States to show our families here some of our customs or traditions, and I heard that they don't have boxed cakes/brownies etc here so I thought it would be fun to make with the family. Our mom had been saving them for when their grandkids were over (julia-9 and cecilia-6). The girls were adorable and loved them. They also somehow managed to steal my camera and ceci had her own photoshoot.
Friday night we stayed here for an event with our program, but Saturday a group of 15 of us went to Ronda and Marbella for the day. They are both south of sevilla. Ronda was a two hour bus ride and then Marbella was an additional hour after that. Ronda was gorgeous. It had some of the prettiest landscape I've seen. It was more rolling hills of green than anything else, but the views were awesome. There were a lot of lookouts to take pictures at and I took way too many, but I figured it was worth it. Also, we got to see some of the Arabe baños which is where the Arabs had their baths. Quite interesting.
We left Ronda around 6pm and then made it to Marbella. Marbella is on the Coast of the Mediterranean Sea. We checked into our hostel which was owned by a Scottish man! He spoke english and gave us a complimentary welcome drink and was very accommodating. The next day we walked along the beach and then along the port side of the city. There were a lot of shops on the boardwalk and they were all expensive brand name labels. I guess the reason it wasn't cute little boutiques is that one of the guides told us they were going to make this port a more touristy/upscale harbor which didn't happen when the spaniards decided they didn't want to have to give up their siesta in the middle of the day! Later we walked out onto the breakwall area and took a lot of photos of the city with the mountains in the background. It was a great weekend!
Anddd to top it off it was Superbowl sunday when we got back. The game went on around 12:30 am here since we are 6-7 hours ahead. We went to the Irish pub for the game ; )
Also on Tuesday, since Christine and I hadn't started on our internship, we made it to the cathedral and La Giralda which are both very famous in Sevilla and Spain in general. La catedral is the oldest gothic church in all of europe I believe, which is pretty cool. At the top of La Girlada, (it is a tower from) there is lookout points and you can see all of Sevilla. It is pretty cool to see and climb. There was a lot of touristy looking people when we went- some from France and a lot from China too. Fun Day!
Feb. 11
This has been our first week of real classes! I am taking three classes and doing an internship which counts for three credits. I already took my two week intensive session class which was three credits so at the end of the semester all 15 credits will transfer. I am actually waiting to start my internship because my company was late in sending in some government documents. This is good/bad at the same time because I have this week easy, but we still have to complete 100 hours of time in order to receive credit. THEREFORE, i have to work more hours later which they said will just get harder to do.
However, my other two classes now are business classes and one class that I took as an elective. It is mass communication in Spain and our teacher works at the radio station in Sevilla. We actually took a field trip to the studio on our second day of class and the stations that go through her company are CanalSur, Canal Fiesta, Canal Andalucia and Canal Flamenco. She showed us where they film and two kids even got to do a pretend radio interview. Kinda cool! However it was wayyyy across town for me, and took a good 30 minutes by bus to get to. I got see more of Sevilla though ; )
If anyone was interested in the food here, we had a new fun dish last night that I've never seen before and really liked. It was like an egg pizza. YUmm. It had the dough of a crescent roll and then basically egg maybe potatoe? and onion and maybeeee cheese. I said it was a mix of pizza and tortilla de patata for those of you what the tortilla de patata is like.
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