La Giralda y el Cine de Verano!

Time is flying by here in Spain and it makes me want to cry :( This past week was pretty relaxed but still totally fun. On Wednesday, we headed to La Giralda! La Giralda was originally a minaret and has since been converted into a bell tower for The Cathedral of Seville. We toured around the cathedral for a while and it was crazy. We went mid-day so it was soo hot and there were tour groups everywhere!

In the midst of our tour we realized we were basically the only people left in the Cathedral! Come to find out it closed and we didn't even get to go to the top of Giralda. So I'll have to go back and check that out because that was the reason I was there!! The Cathedral itself is beautiful though. Simply put, it was like being inside the pages of my art history book! I loved it. While on the tour, I learned that The Cathedral of Seville is actually the burial site of Christopher Columbus!! I had no idea so that was really interesting to hear :) Later that night a few people from my program met up for montaditos, which was pretty fun!

On Thursday, I went to class and we tasted sweets! Sounds fun right? Well it kind of was, but each sweet contained anís, which is licorice and I do notttt like the taste of that :( It was still interesting though! After that, I went home and siesta'd like nobody's business :p Then, after eating pizza with my host padre, I headed out to watch "The Social Network" at an outside theater with CIEE. Although no one understood a word of the movie (the talking was so fast!) the outdoor theater was so perfect! I loved it :) Then we headed to Buddah for the rest of the night!

I made my way home pretty late, once again, but I felt surprisingly great today! Maybe I'm getting used to the Spanish lifestyle ... I wish :p I'll update more after Malaga and Nerha this weekend!! Vamos a la playa!!!