¡Hola queridas! I’ll hopefully be back to blogging with more regularity now that I’m a little less busy, no jetting off to another continent anytime soon. I have midterms coming up so for the next few weeks I’ll just be enjoying the relaxing Sevillan lifestyle and exploring some of the surrounding towns. There are a few I have heard about from friends that are a must see, Carmona and Ronda. Carmona has ancient roman ruins and a castle while Ronda boasts great hiking trails and a waterfall! As a write this post I’m sitting on a nice sunny bench with a river view in my favorite park here in Sevilla, I know sounds like a pretty rough place to do homework and blog. I don’t have much homework this weekend so I’ve been enjoying a lot of time with my Señora and mis amigas, but before I tell you about my weekend let me catch you up on the week I had.
Classes for me were a little bit of a joke this week. I had my one class on Monday as usual, then Tuesday was Día de Andalucía, which is a regional holiday so all of the businesses were closed and of course school was cancelled. My friends and I planned a picnic in Parque de Principe, which is a park on the other side of the river form my house in Triana. I don’t get over there very much so it was good to venture out of my comfort zone. It was a beautiful day for a picnic, we spent six hours eating our bocadillos (sandwiches), laying out in the sun, it was at least 75, playing the card game “Spoons” with our indestructible Spanish cellphones in place of spoons and walking by the river enjoying a cup of helado. It was a wonderful day and it definitely made me wish school was cancelled everyday, but we’ve decided that these picnics should be a weekly occurrence now that it is nice out, so I’m looking forward to that. On Wednesday, I only had one class again and after trying out traditional Semana Santa treats for about half an hour our teacher let us go because her throat hurt, so Thursday was the only day I really had class this week, and man those three classes were a little shock after such an easy week.
Now onto the weekend, I stayed in on Thursday night because I had a really bad sore throat and stuffy ears, and I was worried I was getting sick. Turns out I’m just allergic to spring in Sevilla, and now after a few days of heavily medicating with my allergy medicine regime and some Dayquil I feel like my normal self. Friday night I went out to a Latino dance club with three of my friends, we wanted a change from what we would usually do on the weekends here and it was tons of fun. We went to what is supposedly the best Latino dance club in Sevilla, and when we got there we found out that we picked a good night to come because Fridays music was a lot more reggaeton/hip-hop and less salsa/merengue. I had an awesome time, all of the music was great to dance to and I even learned a few salsa moves!
Today I just caught up on some homework and did a little bit of shopping. The rebajas are over but I needed some shorts. I had no idea how hot it would get here but it is becoming clear if I want to survive until May, more shorts will be necessary. Tonight I think I’m going out with some friends, so that should be fun. This weekend has been nice and relaxing, it was just what I needed after last weekends travelling extravaganza. I hope all your weekends are just as wonderful as mine is shaping up to be! As my Señora would say, ¡Un Beso!
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