they say it´s your birthday ....

so things have been CRAZY busy around here and probably will be for the rest of my time here, sicne it´s down to 9 days until my program is over. But i´m still gonna try to keep this updated but we´ll see how it goes ....

but anyway, so last week obviously was my birthday on wednesday, which was really fun. 15 of my friends here and i went out to san marcos, an italian restaurant out in barrio santa cruz, the old jewish district. the food was AMAZING and i had this really really good tortelini. then afterward we went out to a flamenco bar to try to watch the dancing, but unfortunately they didn´t have any for some reason and just had this guy singing and playing the guitar, but it was still good anyway.

then thursday we had off cuz it was labor day, so i kinda did a little work and waiting around until seth and amy came to visit. then seth, amy, me, eric, and melanie took the midnight bus to faro, portugal, hung around there for 5 hours until 7 am, then took the train to lagos for the beach!! it was actually really fun hanging around faro at 4 am, because you meet some quite interesting characters at that time. and everything becomes funny after a certain amount of sleep deprivation.

after we got to lagos, we checked into our hostel (which was called the rising cock, take it as you will. and imagine the jokes that ensued the rest of the weekend). then we went to the beach, where we all proceeded to get burnt to a crisp from falling asleep in the soon. i was saved a little from getting up with eric to go look for laura and janette, who were taking a later bus since they wanted to sleep for some weekend and wait til friday morning to come.

saturday we went exploring through the rocks and beaches and took an interesting, to say the least, boat ride. there were just a FEW waves, aka a ton, so all of us were feeling pretty seasick, and the family on with us were all throwing up the back. but it was really really trip so it made up for it.

the hostel was really cute too because it was a family business, so mamá made everyone crepes every morning that were DELICIOUS!!! and the people were really nice and accomodating, so it was fun.

now i´m just keeping myself busy in sevilla showing amy and seth around, since they´re here til tomorrow. and i´m also keeping myself busy with essays and work that comes along with the end of the semester.

but anyway, i suppose this is all for now!!

hasta luego!