Los Hidalgos Hotel
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Random Happenings in Cantabria
... you must stand there and drop each bottle. Savannah and I walk outside with all our recycling. I had the bag with the glass bottles, which consisted of about 3 weeks worth of glass bottles(wine/beer). As I am walking towards the receptacles, I notice that another student from the SAME CLASS AS LUIS, is sitting on the steps right in front of me. He was not in school that day because of the student strike. He waves at me and I ask him how the student protest in Santander ...
A little bit of Sevilla in San Vicente
... to dance Sevillanas because in Sevilla, Sevillanas is SERIOUS BUSINESS.
What is Sevillanas you ask? Well, it is a type of flamenco and the dance of Feria de Abril in Sevilla. Maria, my host sister in Sevilla, tried to teach Melanie and I how to do it....and we FAILED. Well, to be fair, Melanie was pretty good! Jose Luis, who is our other "beginner" is hilarious ...
The start of "afternoon" classes. Joder.
... my ears and he reaches into his desk and pulls out an air horn. He then opens his window and the air horn SCREECHES and startles all the boys playing soccer right outside the window. When the boys realize where the noise was coming from, Juan just laughed at them and shut the window and continued chatting with me. No big deal. Is he not the best principal?
If these first two days were any indications, I think I am going to like afternoon classes...
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Oh the pains of not having internet
... UN.This week starts afternoon/evening classes as well! The whole month of September, the students have only been going to school from 8:30am to 2:30pm. During the day, every 2 periods(each period is 50 minutes long) there is a 20 minute break. During the break, you can go outside, go to the library, go to the in school cafe or even home if you lived close! There are ...
First Week OVER!
... Other than that, Angeles had a storeroom full of drugs that when I got sick once with a cold…she just gave me cough medicine. In Spain, as in most of Europe, you have to go the pharmacy to get ANYTHING medically related. How I miss the supermarket in America where you can just go down the aisle and pick everything out yourself. I went on Monday, thinking I had allergies and was given the equivalent of zyrtec for 3 euro. When I realized later that day that ...