07 November 2006

So it's lunch time in Spain, yeah it's 2pm. Things work a little differently in Spain, for example lunch is at 2-4pm, dinner is around 9ish, and the party doesn't begin until like midnight. Lunch is slow, and an hour and a half lunch is normal.

Valencia is different, I actually am already feeling homesick for London. There's just something about London that makes my heart beat a little faster, and I haven't felt that way about Valencia yet. But then I've only been here for a few hours, so I will be fine, and I know I will enjoy visiting another country.

Kathleen and Amaya picked us up, and then we went to meet Jessica back at her flat. We stopped at the grocery store so they could pick up some food, and wow they have Chips Ahoy! I've been craving Chips Ahoy since I got here. I should pick up some stuff at the grocery store near Nils just so I'm not always eating out. So anyway, we met Jessica by her place, and opps she left her keys inside her room. She called her friend Valentino (Oh he's so Italian, it's awesome), and we dropped the groceries off at his flat, and then we walked to the city centre of Valencia. It's high 70's here, well at least I think so, it says it's like 26 Celsius but all I know is IT"S HOT compared to England.

Hey, had to stop, my lunch came. It wasn't bad, I ate some rice and chicken. The food here isn't spicy or hot, it's meat and potatoes and rice. The problem is figuring out the Spanish so you know what you are ordering, and that is where Jessica comes in. We had a good time just sitting, eating and just talking. We ate for more than an hour, and then headed off. Jessica was with us for a little bit, but then she headed off to get her keys and go to class. Thankfully she was able to get them! So then my flat mates and I started walking around Valencia, and oh wow, so many beautiful buildings that I don't know what they are, and the fountains. WOW. Jessica told us that, Spain is full of beautiful fountains, and I love fountains. There is just something about them. We walked to the train station, which is a beautiful building, and only later did I find out that it is the train station. But the building next to the train station... well that made my day. It's the bull fighting arena, but it's modeled after a Roman arena. Anyone who has seen Gladiator can tell you that. I thought at first it was an arena but it's too new looking, well it's in too good of shape. So maybe they rebuilt it on the sight of the original one, because there was one built by the Romans, every town had one, and Valencia was important in Augustus's time so there was def one. Right inside though was shops, and I bought myself a bracelet... it's black and has a bird on it, though I prefer to think of it as a Nighthawk. It was only 4 euros, and it's cool looking.

So from there we walked, and walked, and came to a really nice park. This park is in the middle of the big road, it separates the two sides, and we saw a lot of nice fountains, the musical one, which we will be going back to, and see it at night when there is music going, and a playground. One thing before the playground though, we saw a father and his son throwing around an American football, and it was bad. The father was throwing it with two hands over his head, and the kid couldn't do a spiral to save his life. I wanted to interrupt, and be like, "Just watch" and do it myself, but I resisted. Kathleen and Amaya agreed that they could throw a better spiral than the kid, and he wasn't like a 10 year old kid, but maybe 15 years old. Anyway, the playground is Gullivan from Gullivan's Travels, and you can climb all over him. We are like the little people. So yes we are 12, and we climbed all over Gullivan, and slid down him, I had way too much. I love slides, so I ran up them and slid down!

But now I am in a mall. A mall, yep you read it right. I came to Spain to go to a mall. I mentioned this fact to the girls, and Cassie said, "Well if you had a better idea..." I'm not complaining or anything, just stating a fact. Amaya is of course shopping, and I'm at this little cafe in the middle of the mall. I got Ben and Jerry's... and now just resting my legs.

Now that I've spent a whole day here I'm warming up to it more, but I'll take London any day, even if it is soooo expensive. The euro is much nicer than the pound.

Til next time!

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