Las carnavales de Cádiz

In this little coastal town called Cádiz, every year they have this 10 day long carnival and I've heard that it's the second largest carnival in the world && everyone I have talked to have compared it to Halloween & Mardi Gras. So of course, we had to go. We just went for the night && that was enough for us but it was so fun!

Sara as a sailor

Maggie was a Greenbay Packer, Callum was Sherlock holmes, Rachel a sailor with her roommate & Kristin is a masquerade girl

Me && my friend Katie were mariposas, butterflies. It was cheap && easy but there were ALL sorts of costumes from people in wigs to the police to Waldo, anything you could think of, they're were people wearing it. Let me tell you....there sure was A LOT of people too, it was cool but if I'm going to be outside with that any people we should a least being doing something like dancing or something, it was mostly standing around, not that I'm complaining it was fun but one night was good enough for me.

Sara & Maggie

It was a very eventual long night but we all had a ton of fun & got home safe, check that one off the list!

It's MIDTERMS week :( so I have spent a lot of days studying away when I'm not sleeping because I'm sick (yes again) but its been nice because it's been raining so I haven't felt so bad about not being out and about. Today I got the best surprise ever, I got a sweet care package from my best friend Christine! It was from V-day but it had my favorite candy & TWO cards, so thoughtful :)

Once midterms are over...we are going to Lisbon Portugal this weekend and I'm super excited!

Halls && Amigos

The blogging has started to slow as I spend my weekdays in Sevilla, I find myself just sticking to the usual routine of things, school, homework, going to my programs office, maybe having coffee with  a friend or intercambio, i need to remind myself to not take any of this for granted and to enjoy it as much as possible while I am still here, so that's my new goal. Yes school is important but the least I can do is absorb the sights and take pictures. The above one is usually what I see on my way to my programs office, its a bridge that is beautiful & although the cathedral is far away, you can see it above anything else...mostly because it is against the law here to build anything taller than the cathedral.

This past week, I got to visit the Town Hall of Sevilla. It was really neat because some of the building is old from the 16th century and some of it is from the 29th century. What's REALLY interesting is that they still actually use this building, it's not all about show and tell here. 

Here you can see the old and new parts together

This is a universal symbol that I see EVERYWHERE in sevilla which stands for "Nomen Domine" which is latin but it looks like "no me ha dejado" which is Spanish means that you have not left me. Which is a symbol of Sevillas during a time of trouble with Giralda, that Sevillians had stood by the government and now is a universal symbol. 

See its in use! The small door over there was originally used for the people who came to ask for things (and its actually a small door to imply inferiority) 

Me thinking in a super old chair

16th century palma tv??

Me under a chandelier, its really neat looking!

This is "botelloning" which is like drinking in the streets with a "botellon" bottle. Everyone does it by a landmark, Torre de Oro, alongside the river, I figured hey why not

TOD-DA-DA was his name, another student, its funny how many Americans you can meet and how quickly they are to speak any English

Kristin, Katie & I

Callum & Kristin

Drew, Kristin & Callum