On Tuesday, our program did an activity where we went to a cooking class and learned how to make Paella from a professional chef. It was so much fun! Paella is an extremely popular/traditional dish all over Spain, Each region has its special type, but basically they are all the same. It is a big mis of rice, vegetables, meat (seafood, chicken, beef, or anything else) along with various types of seasonings, the most famous one being Safron. Lots of people make pa...

Some girls and I went to mass in the Granada Cathedral on Sunday. Going to mass in a different country is very interesting and I'm glad that I have been getting the chance to go to church every once in a while when I am not traveling. It is definitely a different experience for two main reasons: 1) The language barrier-the prayers, gospel, etc are completely differnet vocabulary terms than what I am used to so they are hard to follow. However, I can still tell wh...

This past weekend a celebration in Granada occurred and it was great! The name of it was Las Fallas, which is a crazy famous party/celebration in Valencia, Spain (a city on the east coast of Spain). In Valencia, Las Fallas lasts for approximately 3 weeks. During these three weeks there are lots of parades, traditional food/beverages being served, men and women dressed in traditional dresses and suits and they perform the dances of Valencia, and most importantly, ...

For the second part of my Semana Santa (Spring Break/The week of celebration leading up to Easter), I went to Sevilla, Spain which is supposed to have the biggest and coolest Easter celebration in all of Spain. Spain has an extremely traditional Semana Santa celebration full of various parades/processions in which the men carry tremendously heavy floats through the streets of their city in order to serve penance for their sins. It is a super painful and grueling ...

Since the beginning of February, I have been voluneering at an after school program that kids go to in order to get extra help with their school work. So far, it has been a blast! And also quite crazy. :) I go every Tuesday for two hours. Normally, for the first hour I help one of the "ninos" with things like adding and subtracting, practicing their cursive, or even color with some of the younger ones. During the second hour me and one or two other voluneers tak...