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Hey guys. So, I am not feeling so great right now. I am not sick or anything, but I just took a Fernando test and I literally failed it. I know that I am always saying how I am going to fail tests and stuff, and this might just seem like one of those times, but this time, I failed it. I was just making stuff up for the answers because I had no idea what they were. It was like this:

Explain what the following are:

Almandezar:

Now, I don´t think that´s even a real word because I just made it up. But if you don´t know the freakin´words because they are in another language and I probably don´t even know the words for these things in English because they are specific types of buildings from the Neolithic period, then how in the world are you supposed to find an answer to what an Almandezar is?! Do you see what I am saying? So, I failed it. But evidently, it does not matter much if we failed it because Fernando is giving us extra credit ( and by us, I mean the people that failed his test). But I would have rather not failed it in the first place.

Well, now that I have purged myself of that. I don´t know what happened with the weather today. It was really sunny when I woke up this morning, and now it is just cloudy. But I guess that´s what weather does.

This past weekend, we went to Granada. It was really awesome. So I will tell you all about that because during the week, we just had class and that is not that exciting.

So, on Friday morning, we left for Granada.

The bus ride there took three hours. The countryside is really pretty and there were lots of mountains in the distance. I did my homework on the bus. We stopped at the weirdest rest stop too. It was so creepy. They had all these manneguins of old time people selling things. It freaked me out. They also had a fake bull ring with a fake matador and a fake bull and the bull had fake balls (which I thought was a weird thing to add to the fake bull). Anyway, so, that place was just strange. It was in this town called AguaDulce (Sweet Water). Little did we know, we would return there soon enough...

Anyway, so we got to Granada at 2 in the afternoon. We pulled up in front of this four star hotel, and I was like, ¨What in the world? This can´t be our hotel. It has four stars and we don´t even stay in four star hotels with my family.¨ But yes, it was our´s. Our own four star hotel to take over (because there are 30 or 40 of us). So, that afternoon, we had free to explore the city. My Senora had packed me a lunch, so I just ate that as Julia and I walked around. There are some corresponding pictures up on webshots. So, we just walked a lot and kept taking all these little streets and climbing higher and higher. I don´t know why we chose to climb upwards, but that´s pretty much the only direction to climb, except after you climb upwards, you have to climb down, so there´s always that choice too.

Anyway, we had walked a very long way and along the way, I bought a purse which you can see in some pictures. You all might think it´s ugly, but I think I might love it.

So, we had climbed pretty far and we were like, ¨Where are we?¨ because we didn´t know. And we saw this sign for a ceramic exhibition. So we were like, ¨Well, let´s take a look¨. And we went inside. But inside, there were all these ladies with their heads covered serving food and all these Islamic men and like six plates hanging on a wall. So, I asked one of the guys where the pottery exhibition was. And he was like, ¨Do you need to use the bathroom?¨. I was kind of confused because exhibicion does not sound like servicios. Except that my accent is horrible, so maybe it does. But, we explained that we didn´t want to use their bathrooms, we just wanted to see the pottery exhibition. And he asked us if we wanted some couscous and then pointed to the six plates on the wall. So, we just kind of left because it was getting weird and I think they were going to pray to Ala or something.

We kept on walking.

I was thirsty, so we decided to stop in a bar. Julia had read somewhere that the bars with a lot of people in them are the best ones. We saw one with a lot of people in it, and went in. I just wanted some water (I don´t really crave a beer in the middle of the afternoon).

The guy at the bar was really nice, but then he started talking about some Islamic conspiracy theories involving the United States and it was really difficult for me to follow what he was saying, so I just stopped responding to him and went over to talk to Julia. She was talking with this old friendly Spanish couple. They were nice and told us some good bars without tourists that we could go to that night. The man spoke perfect English, but mostly he spoke to us in Spanish.

We kept on walking. And then, at some point, we came to a bunch of photographers taking photos of this one woman. I think she was a model for something, but we just asked them if we could pass and kept on walking some more.

We found a cafetería and got some sort of pastry and some coffee and then we went back to the hotel. Or maybe we went shopping before we went back to the hotel. And then, we went and took advantage of the buffet. They had this awesome buffet there. I mean, they had everything you could ever want. And for dessert, they had these little cream puff things that were really awesome. We just called them puffs. I know, that´s not that interesting.

At dinner, a bunch of people were drunk. I guess they started really early. One guy did not even make it down to dinner, he was so drunk. He just passed out in his room and slept there the whole night. He´s a really nice guy, but I guess he´s kind of an idiot.

So, after that, we walked up to Al Hambra. Not to the palace though, we just walked up to this other point where you can see Al Hambra all lit up. It was very pretty and very cool. Everyone was taking pictures of Fernando (our teacher, the one who´s test I just failed). Everyone really likes him, but I don´t think he´s that cool. And I didn´t think he was even BEFORE I failed his test.

So, after that, we decided to go to this street called Elvira, where the nice old people had told us to go. I thought it was a really cool street. There were some other, shall I say less adventurous?, people with us who did not seem to like it that much. But it was full of all these hippies and young people. It was really neat. We didn´t stay there that long though because we had to get up early the next morning to tour the city.

We went to bed.

We woke up.

We ate at the really awesome buffet again.

Then we left for the cathedral. Well, I thought we were going to the cathedral, but it was really just this building of tombs for some dead king and queen of Spain. The whole time we were there, I thought it was a cathedral too. So that was probably why when I asked our tour guide Rafael, if they still use the Cathedral to worship, he didn´t know what I was talking about. Anyway, that was really interesting. And then afterwards, we went to the actual cathedral. I must have been in a good mood because I was asking a lot of questions . Also, it was supposed to rain that weekend, but it didn´t, so I was also in a good mood for that.

We had free time for lunch, but we were supposed to meet back at the hotel at 2:30 to take a bus to the Al Hambra.

I knew that I wanted some falafel, and nothing was going to stop me. I think I was PMSing. So, all these other girls were following us, and I was like, ¨Just so you all know, I am getting some falafel, so that is the direction we are walking in and if you don´t want it, you might want to walk in a different direction.¨ I don´t know if I put it so meanly, though that´s not really mean. Anyway, they all stopped into an Irish pub thing, and we kept walking until we got to this cool plaza where we could sit outside in the sun and eat some falafel. Julia and this other girl named Ashley were there. Um, more on Ashley later. I actually think that she is sitting behind me right now, but whateva´.

Our waiter was really nice and his little nephew who was probably 2 years old, gave me a kiss. So, when we were sitting there, there was this group of Spanish men walking by. And