I haven’t gotten sick for a while, but of course with the luck that I have, I am now sick with a sore throat in Spain. I’m definitely I brought dayquill and nyquill with me. I definitely took two siestas today, one being an hour long, and the other lasting two hours. Anyways, I had a pretty relaxing and chill weekend. On Thursday night, a lot of the group went down to Calle Betis, which is a road right next to the river, which is lined with bars and we had a couple drinks, which was fun. The first bar was Big Ben and of course a little while after all the Americans got there, they started playing American music starting with the song Bananas by Gwen Stefani, which I hate. Haha…On Friday we were supposed to have a field trip at 12:30 to the Archaeological Museum, but I thought it was at 1 so Chris and I were definitely late and we had to go find the museum on our own and meet the group. It was really cool with one of the teachers giving us a tour explaining a lot of neat stuff including some history.

On Saturday, Dhruti, Chris, and I had to go to the post office for homework, which was all the way in the center of the city, like 25 minutes walking distance from where we all live. We stopped by a Café de India along the way and chilled for an hour or two (and no this café has nothing to do with India, its like Starbucks, but just in Spain). This place was like two stories and had a projector upstairs playing Spanish music videos and couches. I really like coffee shops in case you didn’t know and I like going to them to study or just relax and read so I’m still looking out for the best one in Sevilla. We also walked around the center of town where we came across the Cathedral, which is the largest Christian cathedral in all of Europe.

Cathedral

This is what I imagined all of the streets in Spain to look like...

Dhruti and I near a cool looking fountain

I started off Sunday by waking up at like 2 and then going to Starbuck’s to do some reading and a little bit of homework. I know this is an American place, but I figured I would compare it to the states. The coffee tasted about the same, but it was a pretty cool atmosphere just watching Spanish people hang out around me. Later on, Dhruti and I met up with a guy from Sevilla named Andres who we met in a coffee shop in Chapel Hill last semester who happened to be visiting a friend at UNC. He was with two guys from the states who have been teaching English for over a year and a half here. They invited us over to one of their apartments, which turned out to be this 5 story narrow house with a room on each side of the staircase. It was really nice and there was an amazing view from the roof of the house. It was good chilling there away from the big UNC group and speaking Spanish/English with a Sevillan and people who have been here for a while.

Today was Chandni’s 21^st bday. Happy Birthday dude! She didn’t want to go out because a lot of have class at 9 tomorrow and there is not too much happening on a Monday night. But, we all met up with her after dinner at Burger King, which was like at 10:30 at night. I got her a giganta vasa de cerveza there. Check out the picture. All right, bed time.

This crazy fool is 21...check out the Burger King cup