Mis Viajes (My Travels)

Helllloooooooo, USA!

La catedral. It's really hard to capture just how massive it is in one shot. But at least this shows you some of the great architectural features.

Over the last two days, I've booked plane tickets for three different trips I'll be taking over the next few weeks. So I thought I'd update you on some travel plans for the future, just in case you're curious :)

Next weekend (Sept. 28-30): Portugal! Lagos, Albufeira, Sagres

Oct. 5-8: Barcelona! We'll be there for El Clásico, which is a huge fútbol game between Real Madrid and Barcelona, who I believe are the two best teams in the world. Well.. they're certainly good, at least. So we'll go to a bar and watch the game in Barcelona, among doing other touristy things

Oct. 10-16: Italy! A few days in Rome, a few in Florence, then we'll spend a morning in Pisa (which is where we'll catch a plane back to Sevilla)

Nov. 2-4 - Morocco! (Tetouan, Tangiers, Chefchaouen)

My friends and I have also made plans to go to some other places in Europe and Spain, but these are just the trips that we've booked. I'm very excited :)

Yesterday I joined a gym, and I tried out a spinning class there. It was awesome! The instructor only spoke Spanish, of course, but he was really helpful if my friend and I started peddling too fast or too slow or had bad posture on the bike or something. It was funny, he kept yelling "Esto es!" which sounded really weird to me. But then I realized that if you translate that, it's pretty much just like when American fitness instructors yell "That's it!". I guess fitness classes aren't that different regardless of which side of the Atlantic you're on...

Today, after weeks of hunting, I finally found peanut butter! SUCCESS.

I also went shopping in a crafty store to make myself a ring. Not just any ring, though. My mom and I made bracelets when we were in New Jersey a few years ago. They were bracelets with different beads on them that each meant something different. And it really meant something to me, since I made it with my mom. When I went to the Real Madrid game a few weekends ago, it broke! Probably because I was cheering too hard... Thankfully, I was able to find and save some of the beads from the bracelet, but I lost a lot of it. So I decided to make a ring out of a few of the remaining beads. And here it is:

My time here has been a little bit up and down lately. I think I'm still kind of adjusting to life here, but I'm sure that'll take some time. I'm very excited for my trips on the next few weekends :)

That's all for now. Talk soon!