After my crazy week in Munich, I was happy to get some time to relax. But since we got back Tuesday morning, I had to go straight to school. And of course of all days, I had two presentations the day I had three hours of sleep. But I survived and got to sleep a lot that night. The weather has been getting a lot warmer, so on Wednesday I got to have one of my classes in the park. If only we could have all of our classes in the park. On Wednesday night, my friends and I decided to go to the Sevilla football game. I don’t really follow sports, besides Angels baseball, but football is so important to the Spanish culture so I knew I had to go at least once. We only had three days of classes, so the week flew by.
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| Un día hermoso para clase en el parque |
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| Seviiillaaaaaa!! |
On Thursday evening, Anna and I went to destress at a cute little marketplace and hung out by the river. Every day that I'm in Sevilla, I always find something just incredibly beautiful, like the view we had of Triana from the other side of the river. If summer in Sevilla didn't get to be over 100℉, I might have stayed forever...
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| El Río Guadalquivir y Triana |
Anna invited me to join a group of friends for a day trip to Ronda on Friday. I was planning on staying and being lazy in Sevilla all weekend, but I had heard so many great things about Ronda, so I knew I couldn’t pass it up. That morning, I realized that my wardrobe doesn’t really consist of clothes for visiting a city on top of a canyon, so it was pretty entertaining how overdressed I was for all the walking and climbing we did throughout the canyon. Nevertheless, it was so much fun. The city itself was beautiful. Ronda is a small town and the people there were all just so friendly. After we found lunch, we went to the Plaza de Toros and its museum and ran around the ring pretending to be bulls. We wandered around for a while just taking in all the beauty of the countryside and visited the Arab baths where we learned a lot about the history of the city. We finally found out how to get to the Puente Nuevo, the tallest of the three of the city's bridges. We explored the canyon and all of its beauty until it was time to find dinner before we had to take the bus back home. There was so much to see and learn about the city, and I went with a fun group of girls who also took time to learn about the history, which made the day trip so great.
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| Plaza de Toros |
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| Baño Árabe |
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| Detrás del Puente Nuevo |
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| Amigas |
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| La hermosa Ronda |
Saturday and Sunday were lazy days. I didn't get to explore as much as I had originally wanted, but it was nice to have a couple days with nothing to do. I don't think I even left the house on Sunday, but sometimes it's nice to have a day of absolutely nothing. On Saturday, I found a church in Triana that had a statue of Mary that they use for one of the processions during Semana Santa. Basically, Semana Santa (Holy Week) in Spain is a huge deal. Thousands of people travel to Spain to see and be part of the processions of statues all week. So this church had the statue out for the day so people could go see and kiss the statue. It was amazing to see so many people there because the traditions of Semana Santa are such a big deal. It was weird because there were tourists everywhere. I heard English being spoken everywhere. And we still have over two weeks until Semana Santa. But it was just really awesome to experience while I was just wandering through the city.
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| La Virgen de las Estrellas |
Now I just have to survive midterms the next week and a half. Then I'm headed to Paris for my first spring break! And we're headed to Córdoba and Granada with ISA this weekend!
Hasta la próxima!
~Erynn
