Wednesday night I decided to go out with Hannah, Liz, Kelly, and Kelly's friend who was visiting who is also named Kelly. People were a bit confused because we were a group of 2 Kelly's and 2 Elizabeth's and a Hannah. Oh well. We hung out for a little while outside by the river and then went to this place called Boss, which was supposed to cost 8 euros but ended up being free because Kelly's Senora knows the people who own it. We were originally going to go to a party for Erasmus (what the program for study abroad is called in Europe), but we decided that it was a little too far and that since this was going to be free, we might as well check it out. It ended up being really fun and we stayed out til about 5! Not so good because 3 of us had class the next morning at 9am. I was pretty tired, but it wasn't the worst thing in the world because class consisted of a walk around Seville. We are reading a short novel by Cervantes called Rinconete y Cortadillo, and the professor took us to a bunch of the places in Seville that are mentioned in the novel. It was really interesting and fun to take the walk that Cervantes imagined these 2 robbers taking, haha. After that, I went over to the hostel to pay for Ethan's stay because he is coming for part of Semana Santa so they don't want him to cancel as well as to pick up some information about going to a flamenco show when Sharon comes. Then I walked over to the school to volunteer and work with the kids, but I was pretty much exhausted by then. I went back to my house for lunch and then had an interview for a summer job on Skype. Luckily it wasn't a video interview so I could easily pretend that I was not tired while I sat there in my sweatshirt and jeans. Sometimes being abroad works in your favor. I went out Friday night for like a half hour and then decided I was too tired and needed to sleep.
I slept in Friday morning and then did some work on my trips with Hannah in a nearby cafe that overlooks the Alameda. It was pretty cool because we could just stare out the window at 2 Roman columns that were taken from the middle of the city. I got a lot done, and then we went back for lunch and I went to meet up with Hilary to do a little bit of shopping. We ended up going over to the river to just sit and read, and then got some ice cream. Her family had introduced her to this amazing ice cream place with basically the best flavors you can imagine. I got banana and truffle, but I had pretty hard time deciding. On the way home, I told Hannah that I felt back for anyone who was eating another kind of ice cream. I think we'll be making just a few more trips there this semester - Hilary said her plan was to try spoonfuls of a few flavors every time she goes and to have tried everything by the end of the semester. Sounds good to me. Going to read by the river is probably my favorite thing to do in the afternoon. It is just so beautiful and peaceful, and there are a lot of people around hanging out with friends, listening to music, doing work, having a drink, or just sitting and watching the sunset.
Friday night I went out again with Hannah, Kelly, Kelly, and Hilary to the Alameda, which is a plaza about 4 blocks from our house (something close!!) and it was really fun. Although again we ended up staying out til about 6am, and realized we had to get up at 9:30 Saturday morning. Not such a hardship, though, because we were taking a bus to the beach in Huelva, about an hour bus ride. It was great, we spent the whole day lying on the beach reading and listening to music and then we came back to Seville around 8pm. I decided not to go out so that I would be able to function on Sunday, and Hannah and I watched The Sweetest Thing while my Senora was at the Cirque de Soleil with her kids. I fell asleep before it was over, as usual.
Sunday Hannah and I went to the flamenco museum which is fairly new and has everything in 6 languages. It was very cool and uses a lot of technology. After lunch, I went to the river to reach again and to finish reading Rinconete y Cortadillo for Tuesday. I have an exam on Thursday, so I guess I might have to study for that a little bit. Maybe. I am also reading Twlight in Spanish. It was the perfect book to read in Spanish because I kindof want to read it in English but feel a little bad because it is written for 14-year-olds I think. But since it's tough for me to understand books written for people my age in Spanish without looking up every other word in the dictionary, I decided to go for it. It has been good so far, and I really enjoying reading in Spanish in general. It's much easier than the beginning of the semester. I have been noticing lately how much better my Spanish has gotten. I even had Spanish in my dream, which was exciting! When I was out the other night, we ended up talking to a few people we met and I was able to have a conversation with them for over an hour without any big communication barriers.
Speaking of communication barriers, funny story. So Hannah wanted to tell Loly (my Senora) something that had happened to her yesterday when she was at Starbucks, but Loly could not understand our pronunciation of Starbucks, even when we tried to put a Spanish accent on in. It was so funny, we even tried spelling it out loud and we just couldn't understand each other. Finally, we wrote it down for her and she was like 'ohhhh estarbu!' I love the Spanish pronunciation of English words. Basically if you can imagine the word McDonald's being pronounced like Madonna, you have it. We all laughed for about 10 minutes.
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