Okay, I am so way behind, so let's just get started. Life is still going pretty well here. I'm officially a little over halfway through my time here which is absolutely crazy but fun at the same time. So, to pick up where we left off:
Marbella
In a word: beautiful! Even though it was drizzly and a bit cold while we were in this beach resort town, staying in a five star hotel/condo complex for free definitely made the weekend amazing and relaxing. The clouds couldn't deter us from heading to the beach and hopping waves in the Mediterranean. Let's just call it a much needed girls' weekend.
Class trip to Sevilla CathedralWe took a class trip to the Cathedral of Sevilla for my art class and were able to see some things that we weren't able to see before when we went on our own. Among these things was the tomb of Christopher Columbus and the keys to the city of Sevilla. We were also able to climb La Giralda and look out over Sevilla from above.
La ManchaThe weekend before last, there was a school trip to Toledo. On the way to Toledo, we stopped to see the windmills in La Mancha. These windmills were made famous by Cervantez's
Don Quixote. In the novel, Quixote is said to have tried to fight these windmills thinking they were an army.
ToledoIn Toledo, we were able to see a monastery as well as the beautiful cathedral of Toledo. It was a beautiful town with many narrow streets to get lost in. This is also the town in which they made the swords for many movies, including the
Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Exams weekThis is my excuse for the distinct lack of posts lately. Well, that and wanting to be able to put up pictures but not really having a way to get the ones I'd taken off of my camera. Overall, exams went pretty well, some better than last time, some not quite as good but still solid. I'm definitely enjoying having a little time to just relax before another exams week hits.
GibraltarAfter a stressful week, Adrienne, Julie and I decided to unwind a bit by taking a day trip to Gibraltar to play with some monkeys in this truly British territory. Here, everyone spoke English, and, yes, they did have a British accent. Our trip up the Rock to see the monkeys came with a tour guide complete with a British sense of humor. At one point during the tour he joked that there have only been two murders there in his lifetime. Apparently he's on his third wife. As a true British territory, Gibraltar also had the very fun red phone booths that are found in England. According to our tour guide, the only difference between these phone booths and the ones in London are that these have all their glass and actually work.
Back in SevillaSo, highlights of the week so far: looking like a hippy on St. Patrick's Day and getting my flat child in the mail today! For anyone who isn't familiar with flat children, they come from the idea of
Flat Stanley, a really cute children's book in which poor Stanley gets flattened when a bulletin board falls on him. Well, it's now become somewhat customary for first or second grade classes to send flat Stanleys out into the world to people who are living in places different than them. The recipients of the flat children then take their flat child on adventures wherever they are, documenting these adventures with pictures that then get sent back to the original student. So, essentially, I'm an uber-dork and got Jonathan's mom to ask one of her teacher friends who was sending out flat children if she could send me one. So, now, I am the proud and happy caretaker of Flat Yvette.
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