Friday the... 26th of September (el 26 de septiembre) was an amazing night. Phil, Erika and I had the privilege of going out to an amazing tapas bar in the heart of Seville with Macarena, one of our advisors. Dinner was paid for by ISEPS (our program) so we ordered some of the best tapas we could get. I started off the meal with an amazing glass of wine (copa de vino fino). Then we ordered some amazing plates of just about everything: Meat that was cooked in whiskey (solomillo al whisky) and served with fries (patatas fritas). Fried calamari (calamar frita). Meat filled tapas called croquetas. There were some others that were amazing as well. We had about 6 or 7 plates between the 4 of us.
Then I finished off the meal with some white chocolate cheesecake seen here. MM MM MM! It was delicious! My advisor was amazed at the amount of food that ate haha! I literally finished off every plate til everything was gone! I wasn't about to let some amazing free Spanish food go to waste! After the meal I still wasn't full either, and Macarena said to me, "¡¿Quieres una pizza?!" I laughed. After the meal, we walked around Seville for a while, and stopped in another bar to share a drink and rest for a bit, until we returned home. What a night! I told my family that night that it was one of the top 5 meals of my life. I still agree with that. SO much fun and SO much good food!Saturday the 27th (el 27 de septiembre): I slept in that day, even though I probably should've run off all the food I ate the night before. I WAS planning on meeting Phil and Erika at the bar we had made our home, La Abaceria. The guys like us there, but I'll get to that in a minute. Anyway, Phil was planning on watching "un partido de fútbol" at the bar, and I WAS going to go, except when I was about to leave, my sister's friend, Jesús, walked in with a Wii and Playstation3... Yeah you can probably guess what comes next. Of course I stayed home and played "videojuegos" with them. He had this really cool salsa dancing game for the Wii that I naturally was horrible at but it was amazing fun. After we all took turns playing that, we hooked up the Playstation3 and played the game SingStar, which was popular in Europe before it ever came to the US. All I have to say with that is, people would probably pay big money to see me sing Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby, One More Time." That was my Saturday night. Good times.
Sunday the 28th (el 28 de septiembre) I did a bit of walking around Seville, getting lost in the winding streets, and finding my way out with a new perspective on all the little things... For example: Find me a street in a city with over 1,000,000 people in the US where you hear no cars, no people, NOTHING. I found many of those on my winding walks to nowhere in Seville that day. Bliss.
Monday through Thursday (el 29 de septiembre al 2 de octubre): Classes at "la universidad" started that week. So far I like all of them very much. In one class about Roman and Greek civilizations we get to watch movies like "300," "Troy," "Clash of the Titans," etc. in Spanish and talk about what is fact and what is fiction about every movie. Then I have 2 classes that really go in depth about writing/understanding/speaking the Spanish language. Some people might call them boring, but I consider myself to be not "some people." I'm a nerd. I like them. Then on Monday and Wednesday nights I have my Flamenco class! So far we've only learned about the history of Flamenco and listened to a few examples of the music, but I can't wait until we go interactive and hit up a Flamenco Club to experience it all first hand! Outside of class, I went to La Abaceria with my friends a few nights to have some tapas and share some drinks. One night, Phil and I explained to Erika why women will never understand men haha. That was priceless.
That's all for this blog. My next blog will be dedicated to last weekend, which was one of the most amazing weekends of my life.
No comments:
Post a Comment