the weekend

Our program puts together some activities for us to do during the week, and on Thursday we had "salir con espanoles" where we all meet up in Plaza Nueva and Spaniards come meet us, and they take us out and show us around Sevilla. At the place we went to, I got carded for my first time!..which in Spain means that I don't even look 18. But other than that it was fun!

On Friday, we had an excursion to Ronda that started at 9am.  We all met by the bridge and took a bus over.  When we got there, we got to visit the most famous bullring and take a tour inside the building.  Then we were going to take a hike around the city, but it started raining so we just wandered through the little town finding little shops and cafes.  Went down under the bridge of Ronda, which has a great view!

We got back to Sevilla at 7ish that night, and went shopping.  A lot of the stores here have sales until the end of February, so they had a lot of clothes for just 2 euro each :)

Saturday morning, Emily and I met up with my friend and we went on a bike tour around Sevilla for a few hours in the morning.  We got to finally see Plaza Espana! We stopped there and had french fries and a tinto de verano before we finished the tour.  When we got back, Emily and I wanted to bake a cake that we got at Corte Ingles for our host brother Marcos's birthday.  Buttttt the directions were only in Spanish and Portuguese so he actually helped us make the cake and we told him to act surprised when he saw it later. We took a siesta after that and then finished our tutus for carnaval that night. We left our house at 7:50 to make our 8:00 bus, and arrived in Cadiz at around 10, and stayed until 6 the next morning and the bus took us back home.  It was crazy!!!! There were so many people there, all dressed up costumes. Pretty much the whole city of Cadiz was out for carnaval, there the whole place was packed!