A couple of my friends and I decided to take a bus to a beach town about an hour and a half away called Nerja. It was such a cute little town with tons of little shops and restaurants and of course - the beach. We walked out on the Balcón de España, a famous spot, and saw a little strip of beach with some of those nice beach chairs with the padding and what not. We walked down and the guy tells us its only 4.50 for the chairs! What a steal. So we sat t...

Sorry I haven't been doing a great job keeping this updated! Promise I'll try to do better haha. So last weekend I travelled with my class to Seville, a town about 3 hours west of Granada. Everyone talks about how extremely beautiful this city is, but to me it was a little to much city. Which is not to say I didn't like it, but I'm very happy I'm studying here in Granada and not there. One of the places we visited while we were there was a museum on the Spanish ...

**This was from the Sunday of the same weekend we went to the Alhambra. For some reason it didn't post** On Sunday our group headed over to the city of Padul, not far from Granada. We stopped first at an olive oil factory. They showed us how they pit the olives and make a paste from smushing the olives up, and then it eventually becomes olive oil. Now I love olive oil but I can't say the same for olives - especially the smell. So as interesting as this was t...

On Friday we had the opportunity to go and visit the Alhambra. It sits on a mountain looking over the city and used to be the palace/community for the Muslim king and his subjects. The place is absolutely massive. Even after about 800 years the walls are still standing - and they're standing pretty solid too. Inside the walls is the actual palace where the king lived. Each room has walls decorated with intricate carving and that too has survived remarkably well...

So on Friday night I'm sitting in my room just hanging out and I hear some loud music outside. People sometimes drive down our street blasting music so at first I figured that was what it was. But then I noticed that the music was some old school Spanish music which is definitely not the blasting type of music and it wasn't stopping. So I open my blinds and see a bunch of people outside. Interested by this development I ran to my roommates room to fill her in on ...