¡Últimas noticias!

Lots of updates from the past week:

Our group getting ready for the factory tour

TRIPS & PHOTOS

Estepa– Before heading off to Barcelona last weekend, I took a morning trip with MCP to visit La Aurora, a factory in the town of Estepa that makes mantecados (a sweet enjoyed in Sevilla during the Christmas season). But as we learned, mantecados are strictly eaten only during the fall and Christmas season; other months of the year (January-August), the factory makes barritas (energy/sports bars). Check out photos from the trip HERE.

¿FUEGO?!?

So I was having a casual morning: woke up bright & early for my 8:30am psych class, and when class ended at around 9:45 I decided to check my phone. I had a new message from Kristin; not too out of the ordinary, right? WRONG. While I was peacefully in class, Kristin woke up to our señora asking ¿Fuego?, a fireman entering the apartment, and everyone running out of the house. Our apartment was okay, but the floristería (flower shop) below our house….. not so much.

I probably wouldn’t have paid too much attention to this ABC de Sevilla post on my Facebook newsfeed until I realized it was what happened right below our apartment.

Casual morning is a bit of an understatement

Video footage here:

http://www.abcdesevilla.es/videos-otros/20121017/espectacular-incendio-floristeria-remedios-1905844186001.html

And photo slideshow:

http://abcdesevilla.es/fotos-local/20121017/incendio-devasta-floristeria-remedios-108343.html

¡Viajes y más!

Once again, I’ve been SUPER busy recently! It’s a different kind of busy than at Penn; aside from class, there’s less crew practice & club meetings but more time spent traveling and even just studying. I’ve even found that I review my notes a lot more here since it’s especially important with all of my classes in Spanish to clarify what I don’t understand every day. I should probably start doing this more at Penn! :p Anyway, here’s some more updates from my last post:

VIAJES:

How surreal is this?!? My favorite photo from Ronda.

Ronda– Two Saturdays ago, I went with the MCP program to visit Ronda, located in the mountains. Let me just say that it was “gorge-ous”! (Yes, I know it’s an awful pun but it was so pretty & there was a huge gorge!) You can check out my photos of Ronda at this link, but here’s some other highlights:

Things I’ve Learned in Sevilla

I’ve been in Sevilla for over a month now, so I think a bit of reflection is appropriate. These aren’t necessarily in any particular order, and by no means are they necessarily the most important things I’ve learned in Sevilla, but they’re useful lessons I’ve learned to help deal with day-to-day life:

1) No one can pronounce my name. I am known here as CHannon.