Relaxing and Ronda

Wow, where has the time gone! I can't believe that in less than one week this amazing chapter in my life will be coming to a close.

For my last full week in Sevilla I only had two days of classes. Wednesday was their version of Labor Day in the US and Thursday we had off, my program knew that by having a Wednesday off very few people would show up to class the following day and it is true.

Anyways, so that meant I had a five-day weekend. At first I was thinking about traveling a little bit and exploring another country but quickly decided not to and just stay in Sevilla. I could not think of a better way to spend my last weekend than relaxing in the city that I have called home for the past four months. Also my host sister was leaving for Switzerland to be an au pair for 6 months Friday morning and I wanted to be around to see her before she left. I am going to miss her so much, she has been so helpful and nice to me, definitely an older sister to me while I have been her and I am so grateful to have met her. Good luck to her on her next amazing adventure!

Wednesday and Thursday I spent hanging out with friends and relaxing and studying for my finals the following week (okay, I at least made an effort to start and that counts, right??) Wednesday night I went out for tapas and there is a thing here where you order five tapas but they are a surprise so I decided to try that. When I went back to my place I was talking to my host mom and found out that one of them was toro. That's right, I ate bull! Yeah, definitely got sick to my stomach after finding that out.

Bottom left=toro

As for Friday a few friends and I decided to take a day-trip to a near by town called Ronda. I had never heard of it before I came to Sevilla but a bunch of my friends had gone and it looked absolutely gorgeous! Plus it was only about 2 hours away by bus and I thought it was a perfect day-trip.

Ronda is absolutely gorgeous and it looked like it was going to be a great, nice day! Yeah, that wasn't the case for the second half of the trip. Luckily it started to pour down rain after we were done hiking and exploring some really cool areas.

Well, I have to finish studying for finals. ¡Hasta luego!