Well, I'm sorry I've been such a failure at updating this. Lately it hasn't even been because I don't have anything to write about, I've just been so busy I forget to write when I have free time! Let's see, some things to tell:
El Barrio: A couple of weekends ago we went to a concert of a very popular spanish band, El Barrio. Never heard of them before, but everyone had heard he was good. And I guess he was, but I didn't enjoy the concert very much. We were up high and couldn't make out a lot of the words, which of course was difficult since it was in spanish anyway, and we were literally the ONLY ones in the entire stadium not singing along to the songs. It wasn't bad as music goes I guess, but he kind of seems like one of those artists who is totally more in it for the attention than the music. Oh well, overall it was interesting to see.
Arab Baths: On Friday a few of the girls took a trip to the arab baths because we had all gotten gift certificates as part of the program. They were amazing! Soooo relaxing. They're sort in a cave-ish sort of place. I don't think it's actually caves, but everything is all dark and lit by candles with little alcoves and things like that. There are a bunch of pools with different water temperatures that you move through, one of which is basically a giant hot tub. Then there are these hot stones to lay on, and while it sounds incredibly uncomfortable, they are in reality great! After we had gone through all of this stuff, we got to have massages, which of course were excellent. I was falling asleep on the table-so relaxing! Afterwards, we hit up the steam room and went back into the pools again. You get an hour and a half to just chill, which was excellent! After the arab baths, we all decided to go out to dinner at our favorite little Italian place (I know, I know, but sometimes we crave things, like garlic bread) so we went out and had a nice little dinner together.
Alhambra: FINALLY! Saturday we finally made it to the Alhambra to actually go inside! It was absolutely gorgeous. Unfortunately, the weather decided not to cooperate and it was rainy (of course, since it never stops raining here-ask any of the granadinos though, and they'll tell you it never rains here). I can't describe it though really..I'll eventually post pictures. It's one of those things you should really just see for yourself in my opinion.
Balóncesto: Saturday afternoon we went to see a basketball game of the Granada team. Fun, not really much to tell..They lost in the last 10 minutes after being tied the entire game. Kind of anticlimactic.
Así que pasen cinco años: This weekend we went to see this play by Garcia Lorca, and I have to say, I did not understand a single thing about it! I'm slightly scared of clowns now and think that Garcia Lorca is insane. Yep, that's about it. I couldn't tell you about it because I do not get it. If you have an explanation for me, please, feel free!
Pictures: #1. The famous reflecting pool at the Alhambra, #2. View of the Alhambra, from another part of the Alhambra-more pictures later, I've got to run to fútbol!
