A weekend getaway

Another week in Spain brought a whole other week of adventures! Classes are finally getting settled and now I definitely feel like I'm here for the semester. One thing I love about this city is how safe I feel. I can take the bus to the center by myself if I want, I run probably every other day and most of the time, people approach me and ask for directions! That has to happen a least 3 times a week. Either I look Spanish or people just think I know where I'm going. What a hoot!

Classes have been going really well and I already have my schedule down for the week. Monday and Wednesday, I have a 9:00 class, then about 5 of us go to the coffee shop down the street from school and sit and talk for an hour and a half while we wait for our noon class. The coffee here is some of the best I've ever had. I'm convinced the water tastes better here too! A coffee and 2 pieces of toast (or tostada as they call it here) is 1,40 euro, so it's a pretty good deal. We go back for our noon class. We have lunch at 2:30, I go for a run at 4:30, come home, shower, then go do homework. When it's nice, I go do homework on the balcony next to our room. I'm convinced I'm spoiled here. Tuesday and Thursday is pretty similar, except my classes are back to back so we don't go for coffee.

This weekend was the main event of the week.Around 8 of us went to a little town about half an hour away from Seville. Carmona was a beautiful city. It was small and quaint and around 33 km north- east of Seville. We caught a bus from Seville to Carmona from the city center for only 3 euro, so transportation is pretty cheap here. We got in around 1 and stayed until 7. We toured around the city museum, found a beautiful hill overlooking Andalucia, stopped for tapas and sangria, found some Roman ruins, and overall had a wonderful day!  

The view as we got off the bus in Carmona

The city museum we visited

Overlooking Andalucia

There's mountains back there!

Overall, it was a great weekend, and tonight is the superbowl. We got tickets to go to an American sports bar and watch the game with unlimited beer and Sangria. We also get hotwings at halftime and popcorn the whole game. The only downside? The superbowl doesn't start here until 12:30 am because of the time difference. But you know what they say, when in Spain!