Hotel Granada Centro

... show I went to Jess, JoJo, Brandi, and Andrew to a bar. It was neat, free tapas again and there were all Spaniards...not a single other American. This was good news because as I heard from a maid in Madrid and from the study abroad office at CSU, Granada is full of Americans. I felt like everywhere I went in Granada there were American students. While you can learn Spanish and speak Spanish to all the locals, which there are hundreds of thousands ...

... didn´t happen. The kids were too busy being out of control and shoving candy and soda into their mouths. The teacher´s solution to this was hitting the wooden eraser on the board to shut everyone up and then yelling "Shut up" at the kids. This got them quite for about 1 minute and then they got crazy again. The classroom was a disaster area afterwards - the worst of part was the wet chips.. you know, potato chips that have been soaked by water or soda? In ...

J'arrive à la montagne, dans les Alpujarras, après plusieurs heures de vélo et aussi un peu de bus: Je suis accueillie au village par Jordi, fermier bio espagnol. Nous avons convenus que je resterais une semaine avec eux et qu'on verrait par la suite: Grande tranquillité dans cet endroit. Je fais la connaissance de sa femme, Lore, suisse-allemande de Zurich et de leurs 2 enfants, un garçon de 10 ans, Rama, et une fille de 8 ans, Tara ...

... go walk around and explore but it was kind of weird since the beds were being made so we just had to walk. And we stayed with the group for a little though no one knew where they were going really and so we wandered down some beautiful little streets and down neat shopping areas. Everywhere in Granada is filled with history. Everything looks good, looks like old buildings and so the architecture has a certain symmetry that translates everywhere. Later that night ...

... with cured ham sandwitches. Yummmmm. Its crazy, all the tapas bars are juts packed shoulder to shoulder, every single one of them! And the locals are so used to getting free tapas they just leave it there, they dont even want it, even if its something realllllly good. Its tempting to steal it from them, but i was too full anyway.<br><br>The next day we went on a free walking tour and discovere that Granada is like, some crazy hippy town or someting. Ppl actually live in CAVES here ...

... The mood was light again. It was here that I had one of my Moments. I have written of these Moments before, but in short, it is a very brief moment in time (a matter of seconds) when the tangible world leaves me; when reality takes a smoke break and my head is a clear blue sky. These Moments happen about once a year if I am lucky. My subconscious and I come out from the storm of life and we look at each other with squinty eyes. At first ...

short entry for today.  just want to let everyone back home know that everything i heard about the standard of guitar playing in spain is true.  the guys who do it for a living here in granada are @#$%ing MONSTERS.  they're not just a LITTLE bit better than your average professional guitarist in the states, they run circles ...

... Olvide Español y estoy en España........(I forgot Spanish and I am in Spain) Y esto me hace daño.....................(And this hurts me) Whooooooaa whoa whoa ooo ooo ooo........(Whooooooaa whoa whoa ooo ooo ooo) Yeah eh eh Yeah ehhhhh ahhhhhh..........(Yeah eh eh Yeah ehhhhh ahhhhhh) Y yo estoy aqui.........................(And I am here) Estraño y tonto.........................(Foriegn and stupid) y mi cerebro idiota ...

... I was doing something a little bit original! The Alhambra was the first port of call, frightened by reports of lines hours and hours long, missing out on tickets because they had reached their quota for the day, missing times to see inside the palace, etc, we decided to make sure we were up really early to beat the queues, we ended up getting there about 10am, hey, its early by Spanish standards! But we nly waited about 15 minutes toget in, in ...