Super Carnival!!

It's been a pretty fun week this week and past weekend. We went to Granada with the program this past weekend which was a ton of fun!! It was beautiful and I definitely wanna go back because it was a ton of fun. There is a ton of culture in Granada and there is a huge Arabic influence in the Architecture and in the culture itself which is really interesting from a historic standpoint and also it creates an interesting dynamic in the city. Parts of the city make you feel like you are in an arabic country with all the outdoor markets and medinas. You can haggle with the people in order to get better prices and such, which is always fun. This week has been a lot of fun also. We had a huge Mardi Gras party on Tuesday with the majority of our program and a lot of people from a different program which was a ton of fun. It was great to get to hang out with the people from the program outside of class and also to get to know some new friends. Then finally last night was insane!! We went to Cadiz for Carnival which is their version of Feria and it is basically like halloween on franklin times like 1,000 haha and there are huge floats with tons of people and they all have their own songs that they sing as they go by! Its crazy, they are all in different costumes and singing songs that they made up, I wish we had that kind of culture in America!! It was a ton of fun, but it was a really long night!!!! Carnival pretty much goes on all night long and its huge so there were no hostels or hotels that we could rent a room in and so we decided that we would just stay out all night and take the 7am bus back haha. So we left sevilla at 5PM on friday and came back at 7AM on saturday!! It was a crazy night!! We were sitting in a plaza watching a show wen a couple of rather intoxicated spaniards came up to our group and wanted to make friends haha because they wanted to speak english haha We were talking to them for a while and one of them bought a fake flower for laura haha it was hilarious!! The Miguel walked over to me and was talkin to me for like 2 minutes tops wen he decided that we were blood brothers haha which was hilarous lol!! He insisted that I was from Miami and that he was going there this summer haha it was the funniest thing ever!! And then he said, we are blood brothers and "anyone touched you?" and paige had her hand on my leg cuz we were all sitting in the plaza together and everyone else was cold haha. And I was like paige touched me haha and he was like, "We are brothers, and if anyone touched u, i hit them in the face, because we are brothers" haha it was hilarious anyways, the night was winding down for carnival, so they were like we know a discoteca where we can go and dance, so we all went with them because we still had like 4 hours til the bus came and the discoteca was close to the bus station. Anyways we danced and hung out until around six when I decided it was time to head to the bus station cuz I was tired and my head was pounding from listening to the bass for the last like 4 hours haha. But all throughout the night he would walk up to me and be like "We are brothers!!" haha it was hilarious! Anyways we walked back to the bus station and hung out for the last like 45 minutes before the bus arrived and we were all so tired!! haha As soon as the bus arrived we all hopped on and passed out haha. We were back in Sevilla in like ten seconds haha or so it seemed! Its only like an hour and a half bus ride but I think I was awake for a grand total of like 10 minutes!! Anyways, It was one of the most fun and also the most tiring nights of my life, but it was one of the best nights I have had in spain!! Anyways I hope all is well at home and I miss you all!!!