Classes

As well as being the week of my 21st, this was also the First week of classes. 4 of my classes are in spanish and the teachers don't speak any english. One is in english, and she doesn't speak very well. They are all interesting, but are gonna be a lot harder than i thought because they literally don't speak english, So, i have to learn the language. The above picture is from my first field trip with my art and architecture class. It is of the old door to the city, they moved it to the woods. I don't know why.

21 Birthday

For my 21st birthday I went to an Irish pub called Patty's Pub sort of near me. It was a lot of fun there were tons of people there. My first drink as a 21 year old was a White Russian, it was an important choice. I'm happy with it. We went to a club afterwords, which was tough because it was a Tuesday and we had class the next morning, but you only turn 21 once, even if it is in Europe.

Concert

last night we went to a famous rock concert with a really famous spanish metal band playing. They love to mosh. Everyone there was dressed in black and had chains and spiked hair, etc, sort of like a spanish metallica thing, so i didn't quite fit in with my pastel polo. I didn't bring my camera because i was afraid i would lose it/ break it, but just imagine a huge outdoor concert in a soccer stadium with a ton of people screaming and dancing. They had a decent light show on stage and the bassist was dressed like a pirate, the other band members were not. We tried to fit in by screaming jibberish and raising our fists in unison with the spaniards who knew the real words. I don't think it worked.

Sacremonte

This is the view of the city from Sacremonte, which is a mountain with hundreds of martyred priests buried in it. It was an abbey, and the moors conquered the south of Spain and killed a bunch of Christian priests and buried them in the mountainside. Middle left in the background is the Alhombra, which is a moorish Castle. Napoleon tried to conquer Granada to destroy it, but he couldn't.
Last night we went to a club called Granada Diez. It was our second time there. Everything in Spain is just pushed back really late, so the streets and clubs are packed until like 6 in the morning. I only made it until like 4, the Spaniards are unbelievable partyers, stamina-wise. As far as gelling hair goes, I wish it would stop. It was a fun, educational, responsible, and safe night.

club/ cabo de gato

yesterday i went to a hip hop club, it was ridiculous. The Spanish people all wore punk rock clothes with spiked hair and mohawks, super baggy jeans, piercings, etc. It was interesting because they played all american music and we were the only people who knew the words, or who were dancing. Also, here is a picture of me at Cabo de Gato, mostly because I want to put a picture up that proves I was there. evidence.

Cabo de Gato

This is a picture of the beach. You can see the beach, and then the water, next to the beach.
This is from up on a high mountain/ hill we climbed. We literally walked through 10 miles of desert to get to the beach (above). It was weird that there were mountains, desert, and really nice beaches all next to each other.

Mirador de San Nicolas

we walked to the top of thecity opposite the Alhambra and we were able to see the entire city in one direction and the Alhambra in the other. It was awesome. the entire city sort of nests in the mountain and then suddenly sprawls into this huge metropolis. The Muslim part is mostly in the hill and the city then spread outwards.