Emily in Spain: 5 more weeks!

Time is really winding down here. I can't believe we only have five more weeks until we leave for the U.S.!

Friday we took a field trip to Ronda. I have not uploaded photos yet but will do so soon. They have a really awesome Roman bridge there that goes over a pretty gorge on the side of a hill. We were able to hike all around and get some cool pictures! They also have the oldest bullring in Spain, so we got to see that.

Judy Cotter, a really eccentric American woman who teaches here, gave us a presentation on bull fighting. She explained how she didn't like it at first but then learned more and appreciated the art of it and how the life of a bull is really way better than the life of any other type of livestock, etc.

So she kind of talked us into going to see one while we were here. This week we may go get (the cheapest) tickets to see a bull fight.

Megan and I tried to book a trip to Portugal for the weekend of April 30 to May 2, and we were so excited, but then we both got emails saying our cards had been denied! I have taken money out of the ATM since then, so it must be they have a fickle machine or something. I guess this week we will have to walk up there and sign up in the office instead of online.

All of my family is in Spain today!! How funny. Olivia landed yesterday and toured all of Madrid. My parents and Adam must just be landing soon. I will get to see all of them this week, which I am excited about.

Yesterday there was a huge soccer match-- Madrid vs. Barcelona. Barcelona won. I don't really have a preference but Messi, one of Barcelona's players, seems like a really good-natured guy, so I was happy to see him win. Some of the tickets for this game were selling for 1500 Euros! Carmen says "And we're in a crisis?!" Haha.

Now I am trying to finish a paper for History of Spain. It is kind of a pain trying to log into the library website and use all the databases because they all have different passwords. I e-mailed the reference desk so hopefully I will get an answer sometime today.

That's all for now! Hope everyone had a nice weekend. :)
Hasta luego!

Emily

P.S.-- if anyone has any questions, I will direct you to a new e-mail address: sorokeee@bonaventure.edu

Bonas got a new email system and I am having a hard time remembering to start using it. If I get a question of the day, it will prompt me to use it more! Thanks all!