The Best Weekend Yet.

I'm not even sure what I did after Barcelona. I know that last post had a lot of typos, and I apologize, but I did write it on my cell phone. So, all things considered, not bad!

The train ride back was tough, and I spent Monday really tired in class. Speaking of class, I love my civilization class, with my teacher Eduardo who we call Edu. We've been learning about early civilizations in the Iberian Peninsula, and it's just fascinating. I know I'm a history nerd, but everyone in that class loves it. And 11/13 of us are in it, and we can't all be history nerds.

The rest of the week was pretty chill. Except, I now have another exchange student living with me at my host mom's! Her name is Yuri, and she is from Japan. It's weird, because Yuriy is my dad's name, but I guess that's a female name in Japan. She's very nice and her accent is superb. She's never been out of Japan, so it's really cool that the first time she leaves is to Western Europe for four months.

Anyway, Wednesday, I finished planning my fall break plans and bought plane tickets with a few of my friends. On Thursday, we had a weird class schedule so I went and got chocolate con churros with a friend during our break, and it was delicious. We also went and walked along the wall (La Muralla) that surrounds the city. Segovia was a really important medieval city way back when, and it used to house the kings and queens of Spain. As any other medieval city, it has a wall surrounding its entirety. On Thursdays, it's free to walk up to the top. It was really beautiful, if a little underwhelming. What does that say about me that these amazing views are becoming commonplace?

The view from La Muralla

Friday, I spent a ridiculous amount of time laying in bed and catching up on the first week of television back in America. Great lazy day. At night, we went out with the cadets again to try some tapas. Right now in Segovia, there is a food fest going on where a bunch of different bars around town compete to have the best tapa. All tapas are just €1.50, so it's a really good deal and the food is amazing.

A few of the cadets with my Iron Man figurine

All the cadets are in town this weekend because they had two parades, so Saturday night they had a big dinner at a restaurant and afterwards, we all went out. Since people here only eat dinner at like 9PM, we didn't get started until 11 or so, and I came home way later than I've ever been out before. Except that one time freshman year when we ate microwave cheeseburgers at the ER when Audrey had to get stitches. Anyway, Saturday was a ridiculous amount of fun. I'm also now into Spanish club music, or as my civ teacher calls "Ibiza sound". Here's a good song: Mi Reina by Henry Mendez.

Today, Sunday, the cadets had a parade so we went out watch. They marched from the artillery to the castle, and back to the cathedral, where they waited for an hour like this (without moving) until mass was over. This parade is in honor of the patron virgin of Segovia, La Virgen de la Fuencisla. We decided not to wait there, but go back to the aqueduct and see what was going on. I've never seen so many people in one place in Segovia. It was so crowded! But the parade was pretty cool to watch, especially because religion is obviously such an important part of Spanish life.

Waiting.....

With Alana, Katie and Laura at the aqueduct

March!

Some dancers dressed in traditional Spanish clothing preforming at the celebration.

Anyway, that was my mild week, and very fun weekend!


Also, I heard it rained in Autzen stadium this past weekend.... Ha!