Stopping before arriving in Valencia.
The common Ham & Cheese Sandwich that you will find ANYWHERE in España!!!
Since classes started on Tuesday, it’s been rather difficult trying to get into a routine of some sorts. I have class everyday (except Fridays) from 3 pm to 7:15 pm straight. In España, this is very unfortunate, because we have lunch around 2 pm, and most Spanish people “siesta” after lunch. When I want to be napping, I’m in class. But the classes are interesting, and I am taking a Culture class and a Literature class. So it’s a LONG day with those two classes back to back…
I have visited the beach again - this time before class. It’s the perfect place to go when you need a break.
Last night our program (ISA) scheduled an “intercambio” for us. This is when our study abroad group that is trying to learn Spanish have dinner and talk with Spanish natives that are our age and trying to learn English. So we get to help them learn English, and they get to help us learn Spanish. We were really fortunate, and we got to talk to Antonio and José. They were guys around our age and are college students from Valencia. We constantly talked about the differences between Spanish and American customs. It was a rather neat experience, and afterwards, we all went to a Salsa class across the street.
The exciting news of the day is that some of my friends and I went to the Bus Station and bought bus tickets to Pamplona. Pamplona is a city in northern Spain. But we’re going there because the famous “festival/event” the Running of the Bulls starts next week! It’s something that’s been talked about in almost every single Spanish class growing up. I don’t think that I’ll be running, but it will be fun to watch all the crazy ones that do!
“Wikipedia says that the Running of the Bulls (in Spanish encierro, from the verb encerrar, to lock/shut up, to pen) is a practice that involves running in front of a small group (typically a dozen) of bulls that have been let loose, on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town's streets. The most famous running of the bulls is that of the seven-day festival of Sanfermines in honour of San Fermín in Pamplona, although they are held in towns and villages across Spain, Portugal, and in some cities in Mexico, Mesquite, Nevada, and southern France, during the summer. Unlike bullfights, which are performed by professionals, anyone may participate in an encierro.”
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