Today marks the end of my first full week of classes and it feels so great! The week absolutely flew by and I was pleasantly surprised at how non-stressful taking all of my classes in Spanish was. Even though Tuesdays are pretty rough (4.5 hours of class in a row in the same room, yikes!), the rest of the week is wonderfully relaxed. So far, I have fallen in love with my flamenco class, half of the class covers the history of the flamenco dance while the other consists of learning the dance. It is basically a more passionate mix of tap and ballet, two of my all-time favorites! Hopefully I'll be able to get it down over the next four months.
Aside from that, I am taking a class called the Spanish experience of the other, which looks at minority groups that live in Granada, such as the Gypsies, Muslims, Chinese, and Jews. It should be a pretty cool class, especially because I am super interested in everything relating to Gypsies. I am also taking Islamic art and architecture, which also rocks becausewe get to go on really awesome field trips to the Alhambra and other famous places. Our first trip was to the plaza Bib-rambla, which marks the old entrance to the city. It was really interesting but also a bit rough because it was -2 degrees Celsius outside and we were all freezing and a bit sick.
Yesterday, between classes, Riana and I decided to take a nice long walk (even though our host mom said that we would freeze to death) and it was during this time that I absolutely, completely fell in love with Granada! For a little while I kept comparing Granada to Madrid, thinking that Madrid was quite a bit prettier (embarrassing!). This is because when I stayed in Madrid I was right in the middle of the oldest neighborhood and everything was beautiful and antique, whereas in Granada, I'm living in a newer neighborhood that isn't quite as gorgeous. So when we went on our walk we decided to go into the very oldest part of the city, we were in search of a lion statue (my favorite) not even joking. Riana happened to know of one that was in this beautiful public space called the Palacio de Cordoba. This little garden/baby palace was absolutely stunning! It had beautiful views of the Alhambra and the river that runs through town, basically, it was perfection! Riana and I talked and talked about how she could get married there and how much we wish we were princesses and could live in this kind of beauty every single day. Now I feel so stupid for not understanding Granada's beauty, it's so gorgeous here!
But now I'm off to my Flamenco class and tomorrow we're going to Sevilla and Ronda, I can't even wait!! Good bye! Besos!
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