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El Parque Grande de Zaragoza
This past weekend was a long weekend....4 days:) I spent them with my friend Marta. On Thursday, we went to visit the Parque Grande de Zaragoza. It is a park that I saw a bit of with Carla...but only the playground part. We met up with Ayako from out Spanish class for coffee then went to walk around the park. It is suck a nice park. If I lived closer to it, ...
El Cierzo!!
Last Sunday we went to Garrapinillos which is where the grandparents country house is. I finally remembered the name!! We got to pick the olives from the trees:)
It was quite like picking almonds from the trees. This time they werent as easy to pick. We climbed the trees a bit and used a stick to hit the branches to make the olives fall. It was fun though. Its pretty awesome to have ...
Running, museums and dancing
... by ruins and I was able to take pictures. Today, we went down to the ruins and into the museum that tells about the ruins. They were once for the Roman theater. Later when Spain was at war, the stones were taken from this structure to build a wall. It was therefore destroyed. There was a guide that told us some of the story. The tour was made for kids. The tour guide had the kids using masks and musical instruments from the time to show some of ...
Halloween
Halloween!!!!
I hope everyone had a good halloween. I have a lot of fun here. It is celebrated a bit different but a lot of things are similar. There is not as much trick or treating from what I understood. Since most people live in flats (apartment style houses), its a bit more difficult to decorate the outside and go door to door. Everyone still gets dressed up though and there are parties everywhere.
I wished I could have had my costume ...
Fiesta de Pilar (part 2)
... by it was hilarious! He would get the men to come up to kiss him on the cheek then turn his head so that they would kiss his lips. Next we saw these two people sitting in the street. It looked like the one was floating in the air. They were very still and would not talk. I dont know how someone could sit there for so long! Ive included a couple of pictures of these people.
That evening, I went out with Kristen. We were supposed to go to this concert ...