Oh....what a fun weekend!!! This past weekend, Pamela and Taylor came over from Italy and we explored Valencia. It was really fun, because until now, the ACA students here didn't really know Valencia very well. Because, lets be honest, the last time we came was at the beginning of the year when our teacher "thought" we were already fluent in spanish. We did retain ANYTHING! haha It was a lot of fun just showing them around and finding new things ourselves.
Friday, the girls wanted to go shopping, because January is Rebajas season. So....like girls we shopped till we dropping. Not literally, but almost. It was fun to have some quality girl time while the boys went off exploring who knows what....typical boys - hate shopping! We found this amazing kebab place that had really good falafel's. I have been very sad, because my new terrible plan to go vegan for a quarter has been biting me in the butt. I get to see everything get excited about kebabs and eat kebabs and then I can't eat them....haha However, this time I could. This place had really good falafel's, so my kebab wasn't just bread, lettuce, and tomato.
Sabbath, we took them to the huge food market. It was soo much fun. We bought lunch there, which consisted of mandarins, blood oranges, pears, peaches, chips, bread, cookies, & nutella. When we came with the school we weren't able to make it to the market, so it was my first time there as well. I loved it. I think I could easily say that it was the best market I've been to!!! After, we walked to the park and feasted on our food. It was quite the ordeal, because it was soooo windy. It was pretty funny though, because we all ate and there were soooo many bread crumbs on the blanket, so we all got up, except Brent, and when we all got up, the wind took the blanket and pasted Brent with all the bread crumbs. It was hilarious...poor guy! Anyways, later we went to the English movie theater and then explored the town some more to see a little night life. We found another kebab place where Brent happened to get us a discount by pretending he was Pakistani, like the man making our kebabs....oh Brent!!! We also ran into some people who treated us like celebrities because we were from America. These girls wanted to take pictures with us and we just soooo stoked to see us...haha Lastly, we just we back to the hostel and played games.
Last day, Sunday, we got the traditional spanish breakfast.....chocolate and churros. As you can see from the picture, they looked amazing!!! Everyone was happy with our choice to go there and I even think that some people wanted more. Afterwards, we just walked around for a bit trying to figure out what to do, because almost EVERYTHING is closed on Sunday. We decided on Starbucks. The typical American stop. It's funny, because if you want to see other American's starbucks is the place to go, that is for sure. We got some drinks and played cards in there for about 3 hours. I taught them how to play some games and pammy taught some games as well. It was a lot of fun and a really great weekend. It was sad to say goodbye, but back to reality and time to hit the books. Miss you all!!!
Ashley
