Olé!

Hello,

Last time I posted we were going to La Carboneria on Friday. We did and I got some great videos to share--lucky you! We thought it was supposed to be a different type of dancing but it ended up being Flamenco again, which was fine with us because it's a lot of fun! Friday the group was a little different: there were only 3 members with a different guitarist and the backup singer from Tuesday was the lead singer but the dancer was the same. The show was great again and we went home to get some rest for what we thought would be a trip to italica the next day.

When we woke up on Saturday it was pouring rain but we walked to the hotel to meet with our group for our trip to italica. Well italica is actually roman ruins in Spain so it is all outside so our professors canceled the trip until another date. With our jeans soaked we walked back home and went straight back to bed :) The rain stopped that night and we met up with everyone to go out. We ended up going back to Cervercia International and I got a different type of beer (still from Belgium) called Boucanier, delicioso! Next stop- Rebotica for giant mojitos of course! We tried something new on Saturday night--la discoteca! The club Catedral gave out free passes so we all went and it was soo much fun! Everyone had glow sticks on and Lagy Gaga was pumping out of the speakers (they LOVE lady gaga here). Copeland and I danced the night away and burned off the calories from our mojito :) We didn't expect the discoteca to be fun but it was actually great and we want to go back soon!

Sunday ran, did some homework, and got gelato yummm. I got dulce de leche and hazelnut and copeland got fruit yogurt and mango flavors. Everytime we would pass this one gelato stand in Nervion Plaza we would oooo and ahhh but never indulge...we fell in love after the first bite!

Monday we had class, of course...but everyone decided to go to La Carboneria for flamenco again haha! So we joined and got to see another showing with our favorite flamenco dancer :) I think we are going to wait a little while until we go again though.

Tuesday was exciting because we DIDN'T HAVE CLASS!!! We woke up for breakfast and were planning on heading to outlets near the mall called The Factory. When we got to the bus stop we realized we would miss lunch with the bus schedule so we decided to run first and go to The Factory after lunch. The bus there is free, which is nice and we did some shopping and came back to do some studying!

Wednesday we had a really hard quiz in our grammar class...not too sure how that went but we only need to pass!! During siesta we did some work for our Spain and the European Union class at 6:30. After that we came back to get ahead on some work because......

WE ARE GOING TO ITALY FRIDAY!!! Ahhh we are so excited!! We are heading to Bologna, Italy, which is the culinary capital of the Italy (which is the culinary capital of the world in my opinion)!! Our flight leaves Friday after lunch and we are staying until Sunday afternoon :) Bologna is supposed to be a great college town- it has the oldest university in all of Europe! And we read about a gelato shop that is supposed to be one of the best in Italy so you know we are going there!!

Today is Thursday and the weather is finally nice! We had Spain and Islam class this morning then walked around town or about 4 hours until lunch! We found a couple of new stores and went to the bus stations to inquire about billetes (tickets). We just had lunch and are going to start packing for Bologna!!

Ahhh we are just living La Dolce Vita!

I'll update on Sunday after our vaca!!

Love you all!

Amanda