Granada

Writing this Monday during siesta.

So it´s my third day in Granada and it has been awesome so far. I´ve been exploring the city a lot and it is so easy to find my way around. Yesterday we walked through the Albaicin which has an amazing view on the Alhambra near the top. The plazas are fantastic, I´m spending quite a bit of time just relaxing around in them with ice cream or what not. -side note: apparently I ate ice cream at the same place the Obamas did when they were here... what a surprise-

So my host house is one of the closest to the schools which is nice but I take a longish route to school because I get to walk up the main streets then and see the fountains and plazas that are bustling with people. We had two Italian students with us the first two days which was a nice way to transition so I wasn´t completely alone with my host family the first days. Oh, my host family is a woman and her son who must be around 30 who lives with us. She has two other kids around the same age who come over for lunch every day and her daughter speaks english and told me that if I ever need anything important that I should talk to her. Awesome!

-Today (Thursday): the rest of what I wrote is irrevelant as I have since done the things I wrote I was planning to do. Last night we went on a tour with the program through the major parts of the city which was really nice. I got to see a lot of architecture from 11th century, the Cordoban Caliphate, the Renaissance and the Barroque period.

We go to the Alhambra on Saturday for most of the day and then the next weekend we are going to Morocco so that is going to be absolutely amazing.

Anyways I need to get going to our morning meeting.

-Tom