Hiya folks. Sorry it takes me so long to update these days. Anywho. Last time I blogged I was preparing for my weekend trip to Morocco. Yes, Morocco as in Africa. WOWOWOW i know. It was a really cool trip. A totally, completely new experience. The culture was so different. i mean SO different. Everyone there speaks at least three languages: Arabic, French, and Spanish and a ton of them speak English as well. That just blows my mind. completely. We rode camels and bargained with street vendors and drank delicious moroccan tea. Then it was back to school for one more midterm and three more days of class until Semana Santa break. (Semana Santa is the week before Easter..holy week)
I PASSED ALL MY MIDTERMS!!!!! yess. so excited. And then Wednesday night I crashed at Arianna's place to prepare for an early morning trip to the airport. We began our excursion to the Greek Island of Santorini at four thirty in the morning Seville time. Following that was the flight from Sevilla to Barcelona, then a couple hours in the airport, then the three and a half hour flight from Barcelona to Athens, then an hour bus ride from the airport to the port (for the ferry) and then another bus and some walking to our AWESOME huge amazing ferry. Then a five hour ferry ride...a really altogether pleasant experience...then a little van ride to our hostel on the other side of the island...and at one am we had arrived! We woke up at a reasonable hour, headed to the little mini mart two blocks away for some groceries (and when i say mini, i mean MINI) and then we headed to the GOREGOUS Perissa beach. Perissa, by the way, is famous for its black sand. Yes, i said black. It was sooooo cool, the sand didnt stick to anything! it was like little pebbles. Best invention ever, thanks God. And thanks to the active volcano on the island! four days of complete bliss on the beach and in our hostel - which by the way was really a villa masquerading as a hostel: three rooms and a bathroom a balcony and a kitchenette all to ourselves. not to mention that everyday a maid service came in and changed our sheets AND did our dishes for ten euro a night. i know, wow. one of the days we woke up bright and early and rented two ATVs (four wheelers) for the three of us and drove all over the island: to Fira (the capital) and to Oia (the famous sunset place) and had a BLAST. we swam in the mediterranean and bathed in saltwater (no fresh water on the island) and got a suntan. amazing. it was incredibly beautiful. Then at the end we flew to athens early in the morning our last day, spent the whole day touring athens and seeing ruins and eating gyros (souvlaki), and then headed back to the airport for a flight to Barcelona.
Barcelona! that's where i am currently with Mary and Arianna (the three traveling musketeers) and we are here for two more days, Arianna's padres arrive in Barcelona tomorrow and they are gonna be in Spain for a week! Today we walked around the gothic quarter, had some comfort food at Hard Rock (where they spoke english to us YAY) and where we all ordered mixed drinks...well, frankly, just cause we could, saw the cathedral, and toured the Picasso Museum. Tomorrow we are going to Guell Park (a park full of Gaudi creations) and the Sagrada familia before heading to the airport to pick up arianna's fam. :-) what an exciting life i lead....SO BLESSED.
xoxo
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