CADIZ CRAZINESS

Ooo midterm week. In the past 36 hours I have had three midterms. And I guess since I haven’t really done a whole lot of work this semester they kind of kicked me in the butt.

BUT this past weekend we traveled to the south of Spain (Cadiz) with a travel group here in Madrid called European vibe. Cadiz is famous for its Carneval. Carneval is basically like a huge Mardi gras celebration, only everyone is dressed up in Halloween costumes. So we took a bus down on Friday morning (7 am? No thank you) and it took us TEN HOURS to get down there. Granted the bus stopped like three times but it was quite the long bus ride.

Once we finally got to our hotel we realized that there really weren’t too many hotels around the area so we went to a grocery to stock up on bread and sandwich meat. Our hotel was very nice as well. We had a balcony that overlooked a golf course and were like a five minute walk from the beach. Cadiz is supposed to be really pretty in the summer months but the weather wasn’t bad when we were there! It was like 60 and sunny for most of the two days that we were there and then when we left on Sunday it was raining. Everyone kept telling us we lucked out because the previous weekend all it did was rain and many parts of the city had flooded.

But Friday night they took us out to a nightclub and then Saturday during the day we had the day to relax and get ready for Carneval. The bus left for Carneval at 4 and we were all set to go in our costumes. Gretchen, Erica and I had on black leggings, bright skirts and weird patterned shirts with boas, sequined headbands and had drawn designs all over the sides of our faces. But some of the costumes there were RIDICULOUS. Some people had full-on astronaut or Avatar costumes. But needless to say, there was not a single person there that was NOT in costume. We basically walked around and met some (interesting?) people from all over Spain. Think of Summerfest- and picture everyone in costumes. That’s basically what it was. So great.
(picture of our group in Cadiz)

The downside was that Sunday we had to endure a ten hour bus ride home and got back real late at night with midterms beginning in two days…haha oops.

On a sadder note, this morning our senora’s mom died : ( She had been sick for some time and was 101 years old so she knew it was going to come soon. However, she left with her son and her daughter this morning to go over there and won’t be back for awhile.

Friday we’re headed to Escorial for a day trip with the school and then we are going to be in Madrid for the weekend!! Wooo!