La Playa y las Ruinas Romanas

So on Friday I met with my intercambio, this is a Spanish student who wants to learn English and wants to help me practice my Spanish. Her name is Myriam. So her and I agreed to meet at this cafe right on the corner near where I live. So I got there on time (fully expecting her to be late, its a European thing), but when 10 minutes turns into a half hour I begin to wonder whats up. I'm considering calling her when she walks in the door with another girl from my program. Turns out she didn't realize that me and the other girl were different people...awkward. But that's okay because I really like the other girl from the program and it made for a better dynamic with three of us chatting instead of two. After we finished our time together I went out for tapas with some friends. Tapas are essentially appetizers. Now the Spanish are smart because what you do is order a bunch of tapas and then just try a bit of everything! It's a great system. My friends then carried on to a botellon which is basically when a bunch of youth bring their own alcohol to a specific location like a park and they drink together (instead of going to a bar). Technically botellones are illegal so I didn't join them. (Good thing too, turns out the botellon got busted).

Saturday we went to the oldest city in Europe, Cadiz. Cadiz is considered a sister-city to Havana, Cuba. In fact part of the James Bond movie Die Another Day was filmed in Cadiz because they couldn't actually go to Cuba. Cadiz was also the only part of Spain not conquered by Napoleon which is pretty cool. After walking around town a bit and visiting their cathedral we spent the rest of the day on the beach! There was so much sea glass of such beautiful colors (coming your way Aunt Marcelle) and the water was wonderful! On a down side I got stung by a jellyfish. No I didn't pee on it, no I didn't die. It honestly just felt like a bee sting. So here are some pictures!

A lot of the old buildings in Cadiz are made of rock that has sea shells in it. I thought it was so pretty!

We totally crashed a wedding...

So apparently this saint will help you get married for a small price. (Don't worry people I am not that desperate!)

Guys, I didn't realize how HUGE tuna are!

We tried these things that are like figs but aren't....our guide was rather vague but they were good so that's all that matters

This is the entrance to the beach we went to.

  Today we visited Roman ruins that are only about 8 km outside of Seville. Apparently, the location was ideal for a fortress and eventually it became a town for the wealthy. These people had ginormous houses!!! They also had 2 slaves for every member of the family, which someone in my group pointed out seems silly since they could just take over. The ruins were cool overall.

Inside the amphitheater. Do you know the difference between an amphitheater and 

just a regular theater? Its that an amphitheater usually showed fights to the death. Christians died here for their faith. Thankfully, I was just walking around for pleasure.

Fun fact the word medusa in Spanish means jellyfish, I learned so I could tell my host-mom about my sting. 

A lot of the mosaics had been stolen. But my question is "How do you steal the floor?"

Finally to end my weekend I went to see a Spanish movie called "La gran familia espanola" (The big Spanish family). There was a lot of the movie I didn't understand but in the end it was a very heartwarming movie. I just wish I could have understood the whole thing. Practice makes perfect! Tomorrow, I am going to buy tickets for a bull fight. They say they are pretty gruesome but I feel I should go to get my full dosage of Spanish culture.