Week of 11/26 - 12/2

I was going to say that this week was an average week in Granada, but when is there ever an average week in Granada? Every week is unique and there are a million different things I could explore and do in the city. But to give you a run down of how this week might be seen as average for me:

Monday: Literature class from 8:45-10:30am and then Art History from 10:30- 12:15pm, on our way home we usually stop for tapas and a beer (which we did this particular Monday). Lunch at 2pm and then a siesta till about 4pm when I have to leave for my Politics class, 4:30- 6:15pm. After class we either stop for tapas again, or wander around the city. I go home around 8pm and eat dinner with my Señora around 9pm. Then after a shower, the UConn group meets up to go a chill bar and play pool.

Tuesday: Grammar class from 10:30-12:30pm and then a Culture class from 12:30-2:30pm. Usually between the morning classes on Mon-Thurs I will buy a tostada con jamon y queso (pretty much like an open faced grilled cheese with ham; but delicious) at the cafe next door to the school called Potemkin. Our professors start our second class a little bit late because we always go get cafes and tostadas. After the culture class, I rush home in time for lunch with my Señora and her family. My Señora's name is Rosario and her daughter, her son-in-law, and two of her granddaughters come over for lunch everyday. After we clean up the table, everyone settles down for a siesta. After a nice nap, I usually leave the apartment and meet up with friends for tapas, shopping, or a relaxing afternoon in the park (although it's too cold for the park now). I have frisbee practice with the Penultimanos (the Granada frisbee team I play with) from 9:20-11pm. I ask my Señora for an early dinner, then head out to practice. Luckily for me, the fields are only a 10-15minute walk from my apartment. After practice, the team goes out for tapas, usually near Plaza Einstein.

Wednesdays and Thursdays are pretty much the same as Mon/Tues' in terms of classes and things I do, with the exception of frisbee practice.

On Friday (11/30) I went to a potluck dinner with the Penultimanos and brought one of my good UConn friends Brittany with me. Everyone was supposed to bring a dish from their home country. We made meatloaf and chocolate chip cookies! In Spain, baking at home is very rare; when my Señora saw me baking the cookies, she said she had never made them! All the food at the party was delicious - there were even hotdogs and apple pie from fellow Americans.

Penultimanos  at the Potluck dinner

The UConn group traveled to Cadiz on Saturday and Sunday. Cadiz is a beautiful beach town, and although we went in the winter it was still nice to hang out on the beach. We took a bus tour around the city and then I went out to dinner with some of my better UConn friends. Unfortunately we didn't have much time to explore Cadiz, but from what I experienced it is a great little town. The next day we stopped at Arcos de la Frontera on the way home and explored it for a bit.

Cadiz 

Cadiz sunset

Arcos de la Frontera

Me, Anna, Michelle and Brittany at Arcos de la Frontera