my class on friday was moved to noon, so laura, my friend janette, and i went downtown early to book our trip to morocco with a travel agency, find a costume for carnival, and browse through some stores. i found an angel costume consisting of wings and a halo, laura got fairy wings and a mask, and janette got black wings and a mask as well.
i was EXTREMELY excited when we were going through stores, because in VIPS, this convenient store that has everything, including 'when harry met sally' in spanish, i found runner's world in spanish!!!!!!!!! i bought a copy because i figured it could be good practice for reading. so far i've read an article about the achilles' tendon, the sevilla fútbol coach who is a runner, and a little bit about a person who had heart problems or something and then started to run. i didn't understand that article quite so much ...
after dinner, i went out with my roommate rosie and a bunch of other friends to a plaza, where we bought a bottle of wine and drank it with the hundreds of other spanish people gathered there. it's called 'botellon'-ing (bo-tie-yone-ing), and apparently it's a big thing with spanish people since in the culture houses are really private and no one visits or hangs out there. we also bought some fanta to mix with the wine, which tastes REALLY good.
on saturday we slept in a bit and then laura, some friends, and i went shopping downtown. i finally got to take advantage of the major rebajas, aka sales, and i got two pairs of zapatos (shoes) for the price of one.
after napping for a bit and running, we were off to carnival in the city of cádiz. we left at 8 and were there by 9:30, and at first we just walked around and marveled at the crazy outfits. EVERYONE was dressed in the craziest costumes you can imagine: i saw a pope, pack of nuns, chickens, futurama characters, and even a rubik's cube. a lot of people had themes with their friends and coordinated, so it was pretty cool seeing the crazy ideas people came up with. there were thousands and thousands of people walking up and down the streets partying the night away, i doubt there was anyone asleep in the whole city.
after wandering around for a bit, we found a concert with some famous spanish singer. everyone knew all the lyrics to her songs and was singing and dancing, so we think she was pretty famous or something.
we walked around for a while longer, got lost trying to find a bathroom, and then got lost yet again trying to get back to our bus. the bus left around 3 am, so we were back in sevilla by 4:30 and i was asleep in my bed by 5, where i stayed until 1 in the afternoon. although, after i got up to go to the bathroom, i crawled back in until after 2, when we were called for lunch.
after we ate these 'langostinos,' aka little jumbo shrimp things with the eyes still on that my señor had to teach me to peel, i went for a paseo (walk) with laura and two other friends. we were touristy for a while and took pictures of la plaza de españa and el parque del maría luisa.
and that pretty much sums up my weekend.
oh, and i ate squid today at dinner. it was actually pretty decent.
2 comments:
Niiice. Sounds like quite the weekend...although I did hear from Eric that Cadiz was pretty windy because it's a coastal city. Still, sounds like an awesome time. :o)
And it's weird how most seafood that doesn't look that great actually ends up tasting pretty schnazzy. Calamari is the same way. Glad you finally got to try the squid, though...
NORAH I WANT A MOVIE IN SPANISH- we can have a marathon this summer of watching it in English then Spanish then English- AND I WANT WHEN HARRY MET SALLY-- so we can hear what an orgasm in Spanish Sounds like- HAHAHAHA
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