A breif summary

Since I suck at actually writing to people I thought that a blog would be helpful to spread any news that's worth reporting. So I'll do my best to keep this blog alive. Here's a recap of what's been happening since my arrival in Spain...

Upon arrival in Seville, after 23 hours of traveling, I found that my baggage had been lost. First time ever that that's happened to me. It ended up coming a week and a half later so I was wearing the same two pairs of clothes for the first week of meeting all the other students and professors. Yeah, I felt cool. P.S. in this case cool = dirty.

The beaches are amazing here and it is worth going every day except for the tragic fact that I am uber white and burn very easily. I have to catch up to the experienced beach-goers in my group but I'm making progress.

We've gone on a few field trips including an excursion of El museo de los diques. Just in case you don't speak Spanish this translates to roughly a Dock museum. Yes, a museum dedicated to docks. Like where boats tie up to in the water. As you could probably tell it was FASCINATING.....

My room faces a stone wall across the street but if I scrunch up into the corner behind my desk I have a semi view of the plaza de la catedral outside the residencia which is actually really beautiful. I have pictures but of course I forgot to bring my cord to get those pictures off of my camera. Soy genius. Pigeons also like to land on my windowsill so we're buds. They are kind of the inspiration for the name of my blog palomas en la plaza. That and also all the times when I walk through plazas and a child thinks its hilarious to scare a flock of pigeons (flock? herd? who the fuck knows.) which then swarm around you and fly menacingly close to your face.

I have met some very cool people here in Cadiz and some who I will not miss once we go our separate ways to other cities in Spain (but shhhh, dont tell them). Overall Cadiz has been great despite the sarcasm laced through the sentences of this blog entry and I will be a little triste to leave but Granada is sure to bring more adventures. OH MY GOD one more story before I go -

Last night Emmy and I were sitting in the plaza de la catedral sipping on some cervezas and vino when a man came up to us and asked for money. I decided to pretend that I was a total tourist and that I didn't know Spanish so with my best American accent and confused expression I repeatedly told him that I didn't understand what he was saying, but he didn't get the hint and kept asking until he decided that a fantastic way to communicate his motives without words would be to remove the bandaid from his left eye thus revealing his...lack of eye. He pulled open the gaping hole in his head and said "give me a euro". I'm glad I have watched enough medical shows to be partly desensitized to the body so that I didn't have nightmares last night. Unfortunately his fleshy crater did not convince me to give him a euro so he covered up his eye again and walked away.

More to follow. Paz afuera.