Last night- after our mama made us an amazing mac-n-cheese dinner- Angie and I were bored. We had already done our homework and were very well rested from the past two days, so we decided to go explore. We normally go explore and hang out in the center of town by the cathedral or around the river, but this time we decided to explore around closer to our house!
We got ready in our finest European outfits as an attempt to possibly fit in a little better (which is not possible when you have blonde hair and blue eyes). Angie wore a fancy Spanish top and some white jeans and I wore this ridiculously european/ awesome pants romper. I got it for 5 euros at the market by our house- great purchase. I also decided that I would test our my heels. All the woman in Sevilla were their heels here 24/7. It is very impressive so I though since it was a Monday that I should give it a try. I have missed wearing my heels so much. I normally wear them everyday to work back home so it has been weird wearing flats everyday. To any guys reading this blog: I know it sounds silly.. but there is just something that makes a girl feel a little prettier when you are wearing a pair of heels. I walked roughly 3 miles in my heels with out a stubble- impressive I know. The whole "trying to look european" thing i don't think worked though. When every one you talk to ask where are you from and says any random english words they know to you, I think it is a clue that you don't fit in.
Angie and I walked over to the Viapol center about 10 mins from our house and sat and had a drink and just people watched. We had a blast just the two of us talking about the funny things that have happen so far this trip, what we miss about home, what we don't miss about home, what we now like, what we now hate... We decided to keep exploring and headed over to Nervion Plaza (about a 15 min walk from where we were).
We found this chill little place called Europa. Angie and I just sat outside for a while and made friends with the owner of the place. It was very interesting. We called all the other girls and told them to meet us there because it was a very central meeting place for everyone. It was extremely chill but great. We had a few people try to come up and talk to us. Its funny when people who don;t know english try to have a conversation with us. There were six of us girls trying to piece together these Span-glish broken sentences and we were still pretty unsuccessful if what anyone was trying to say to us. It probably would be easier if they tried speaking straight Spanish instead (the mixture wasn't working).
It was such a nice night! You know when it is thundering and lightening but there is no rain! That was how it was last night! Kind of cold but very nice.
After a little we decided to all leave Europa and go walk around the area a little more! We found a few new discoveries. First we found this classy, upscale place called Bravo. It was extremely nice and modern- I don't think we were dressed up enough to be there, and the service was very slow so we didn't stay long. When we left we noticed this place called Abrila next door. Abrila was closed, but it is this really cool discotech that we decided we have to go back to before we leave! I have no clue how much we could do around our area!
We kept walking and headed toward Maggie and Chelsea's house! They live it a cute area of town, surprisingly not too far from us! (I am still rocking the heels by the way) We found this place right nice to their place. I don't remember the name but we called it the "purple bar." It was really nice! The lights inside slowly changed from color to color. It was a cool atmosphere (but made me a little sleepy) so we stay a while. Everything was pretty dead on a monday night, but we were having fun just talking about funny story and things we HAVE to accomplish before we leave in 2 weeks!
We found a little table and started to make a day-by-day agenda of what we where going to do each day before we leave! It is crazy that we only have two weeks left in Sevilla- I'm not ready to leave! We were getting pretty tired and needed to get some rest for class so we headed home pretty quickly. It was a very fun night of walking around and exploring a new area.
In the morning we headed to class, but not before I hide my "toastada" again. I am SO SICK of having toast every morning that I have begun to hide all of my toast in a corner of my closet. This has been going on for about 2 weeks now. I don't want to hurt my mama's feelings but I think I may turn into a piece of toast if I eat any more. I miss cereal and eggs and fruit for breakfast.
In class today we had a little field trip! It was seriously the best day of class yet! We went to this little place in the middle of nowhere in the city and painted tiles! This lady gave us a brief history of the tile in Spain and taught us how to make them! Everyone in our class made one! They taught us how to make your own stencil for you title or you could use one of the ones they had made. Angie used a stencil and did a very pretty flower. It was kind of funny though- she mixed up the blue and the green (you can't realllllly tell what the colors are while you are painting them). So her flower is going to have blue leaves instead of green! I decided I was just going to freehand mine thought! It was more fun that way! The only downfall is that it took me a little longer than everyone else because I over analyze things like this! I don't think anyone was complaining though- it gave us less time in the actual classroom! It was an extremely relaxing day. We basically just sat and painted to 2 hours and then had tutors for 1 hours.
We got our test back today and Angie and I both passed! Yayyyy! Go us! After class we came home had lunch took a siesta and now we are about to do some homework! Tonight I think we are going to go walk around Plaza de Espana! It should be really pretty! This week is going to be a great one! We only have one more day of class (tomorrow) and then Thursday we go to Rabida with our class in the morning and then to Lagos Portugal for our free-weekend for 4 days and 3 nights! I can't wait!!!
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