aaaand morocco

so last weekend we went to africa, making it the third continent I have been to in less than a month! Speaking of months, it was exactly one month ago that I was getting ready to get on an airplane and fly to spain!

Morocco was really cool to see, and not at all what I was expecting. I didn´t realize it was more of a Middle Eastern country than an African country. I was actually expecting alot more black people, I am kinda embarrassed to say. Fortunately the whole trip in morroco was organized by a tourist company, because I don´t know what I would have done there if I was on my own! It was cool because they didn´t take us to the most touristy areas-- instead they showed us what the life of a moroccan is like. We saw alot of markets on the streets where they sold lots of very fresh ingredients. VERY fresh, as in there were little stands with live chickens which were either popping out eggs to be sold OR waiting to be selected and killed ughhhh.

They took us to three cities, Tetouhan, Tanger, and Chef- Chouan (chances are, I spelt those all wrong). Tetouhan and Tanger were pretty similar, I thought. Chef-chouan was my favorite by far (and i think everyone on the trip agreed). Its a small town up on a mountain and almost all the buildings are painted blue. There are alot of streams coming from the mountains and running through the streets and in between house. It was very beautiful.

All the food was included, which was great. The food, however, not exactly my favorite. It was alriiight but after three days of it I was ready to return to my madre for some Spanish food (although i would have preferred a cheeseburger and french fries...).

They told us not to drink the water, which I don´t think I did, but somehow I still managed to get sick if you know what I mean!!!!!

OH i forgot to mention-- I also rode a camel!

Excursións a Sevilla y Marueccos

I suppose its about time I update this blog! I spent the last two weekends in Sevilla and Morocco, and they both deserve a post of their own so here is one about Sevilla, and expect one about Morocco soon!

We took a bus from Granada to Sevilla (about 3 hours)--it probably was a beautiful bus ride but unfortunately I was sleeping most of the way! (oops) Sevilla is an awesome city (also in Andalucía), and it does resemble Granada in many ways, but the road system is even more confusing (I didn't think it was possible), and it is alot bigger. Friday we spent the whole day being tourists. When we set out for our adventures for the day, we obviously didn´t know where we were going...but we accidentally stumbled upon the Catedral and La Giralda, quite the view when you aren´t expecting it!

La Catedral was built from 1403-1506 (I know this from memory, jk), but La Giralda is left from 1198, and is a muslim building, left from the mosque the christians destroyed to build La Catedral. It was used by the muezzin (a muslim crier whose job is to call to prayer...again from memory), and has 35 flights (in ramps) which we climbed up to see a beautiful view of Sevilla. Oh, I almost forgot-- we saw the tomb of Christopher Columbos (Cristobal Colon), which is inside La Catedral, and we were way too excited about it, ha... Also we saw the river he sailed out from to discover ¨The NEW WORLD.¨

Also important- I ate McDonald´s while in Sevilla. Another interesting piece of information about our trip to Sevilla- we bought boxes of wine for .69 euros each. Needless to say, it was really good wine...

P.S. Sorry I don´t know why the pictures are like that.