Granada, Day 4

Today was a great day.

I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night, so I'm really hoping that I get a lot tonight.
After minimal sleep, yet again, I woke up to my host mom asking me what I wanted for breakfast.
Por supuesto, I had café con leche and pan tostada. (Padre, this is where you say MAS PAN!) Ha!

It was so good! The marmalade here is so much better than in EEUU. (USA in Spanish)
I had strawberry jam this morning, I almost licked the jar. The daughter, "I", told me that she loves strawberry jam too, pero only a little.

We watched Phineas y Ferb, in español. :) 'Twas epic. :) Perry sounds the same, shocker there...
But the rest of the voices aren't as annoying as they are in the states, so it's watchable for more than like, 10 minutes. "I" made fun of me because I like all the things that she does... again, shes 7... I'm 20.

My madre asked me if we had plans today because she makes us lunch every day, which is amazing. I knew we had plans so I told her we should be back for Almuerzo but we had something to do after our classes... I was wrong.

A and I left for school on the 20 minute walk, up hill, both ways... yaddah yaddah, and made it to school just in time for our placement exams at 9:00 am, which weren't completed until 12:30 or so... it was long... que larga.

After, I thought we would have time for lunch, however our Directadora told us that we needed to meet at 2:00 for news about the day. So, I didn't have time for lunch with my family. I power walked back to the apartment to leave a note for the madre to tell her and then power walked my less than happy behind back to the school. I went to a café next to the school and bought pan tostada con tomates and café con leche.

Then we went into the escuela to talk to the profesora, then the directora de Granada University came in and talked to our profesora saying that it wasn't okay for us to miss lunch. Which it wasn't because I need food... mucho.

"You won't like me when I'm hungry."

So after this meeting we had the opportunity to leave, but we had to be back at school at 3:30... The meeting ended at 2:30.. so we had an hour. Mind you, I live 20 minutes away, and couldn't make it there and back with time for lunch in time to catch the bus. Que. Bendito. (Damn)

I was very upset, but another student at the school, W, showed myself and a few other students a small little cafeteria where they made toco style things? They were delicious, and pretty cheap. So overall, I only spend like, 7 E on food. Not bad.


After I got over my hangry-ness, I talked with everyone about what we were planning to do during the program for free weekends and what we wanted to do after the program. Everyone has really good plans, I like mine the best. Claro.

Anyway, we got on the bus to go to the "Al-hambra." It's a Muslim style palace that got converted into a Christian style palace later in history. It was so beautiful! The outside is sort of a facade. It's dark brown and dirty looking, and nothing spectacular. The front door kind of reminds me of Aladdin. Anyway, it was a complete facade. I walked through the doors and my jaw dropped. The room we entered was covered with tiles of different colors and styles and there was different types of architecture and I didn't know what to take a picture of first. Everything was so old, so antique, so different, it was amazing.

Anyway, there was a lot of that. It's a pretty breathtaking kind of place. However, it was such a big place with three palaces inside and copious amounts of greenery, with lots of gardens and other pretty things, and now I'm pretty sure I have blisters on the bottom of my feet, because the soles of my sandals don't go well with cobblestone walk ways.

I've uploaded a bunch of pictures to my facebook so that I can keep track of everything, but the internet isn't totally cooperating. If I need, I can just re-post all of them when I get home.

Anwyays!

So after the crazy amount of walking we did, I realized that I hadn't eaten much throughout the day and I'd burned a lot of calories. Hangry Megan strikes again!
So I sat on the bus. Grumpy. Tired. and Hungry. H, a guy in my group, started talking to me about really pointless things in Spanish, so I amused him, and watched the Españolas next to me stare in curiosity as we spoke in English and Spanish back and forth, switching between the two when we couldn't find the right words.

Jealous. Bitches. :)

So, when we finally reached our bus stop, everyone got out and we went to get Helado, at the only Heladaría that doesn't use leche! I got a Horchata, (Ethan, be jealous, it's way better than that powder junk) which was amazing, but it could have used a LITTLE cinnamon, and everyone else got ice cream.
Exciting hu?

After that we had to yet again return to school. We got our Horarios (schedules) and I'm pretty happy with the classes I have and the times! I have a really nice break between my first two classes. After we all got our horarios C and M and I were talking a little and I said "I can't wait for Corpus Cristi, the lights in the streets are really pretty." and then they both started laughing hysterically. I looked at both of them super self consciously and M replied with "We both thought those were Christmas lights that they never took down!" ...

Que Bendito.



So after an amazingly refreshing laugh, A and I returned to the apartment, the smell of dinner wafting down the hall, We had broccoli, and fried ham stuffed with cheese. Sound gross? It's not. It's delicious. I wanted to ask for more, but everyone else seemed content with their plate so I opted for two pieces of bread. (Again, Padre, this is where you say Mas Pan!)

I finally got a full shower in after Cena (dinner) which was amazing. CENTRALIZED WATER HEATER! And the Heavens opened and the angels sang. AMEN!

:)

I'm really starting to like it here.
Cadiz has my heart, but Granada... It's starting to take a close second.


Buenas Noches

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