Friday was a slow day in Spain. It was raining and cold and windy so we didn't want to go out much. I got to talk to Val at home and hear about all of the snow!
Saturday was the Carnival de Cadiz. I went with a tourist agency on a bus with hundreds of other Americans. One thing to understand is that in addition to the 100 students studying with CC-CS, there are several other study abroad groups and also Americans at the University of Seville.
Cadiz is a small city about an hour away from Seville. The carnival is something like a mix of Halloween and Mardi Gras. The city is small, and in almost all the streets and plazas there were people dressed in costumes. There were also bands playing and a few people dancing. Isabel packed us bocadillas (sandwiches) because we missed dinner. One was salami and the other was potato and egg tortilla. We stayed very late into the night and I got a little tired by the end! I walked around with three other Americans and we were able to meet a few different groups of Spanish people, my favorite being a group dressed up as foosball players!
Yay for Carnivale! I'm glad you had fun talking with drunk spaniards. You should have gotten one of them to say, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." I wonder if they'll know where it's from...
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