a random church in the city
The University of Oviedo and a random statue of books and a hat in a Plaza called "Teachers Plaza"
The Cathedral, their love and pride
This streets prime hour is between 1am and 6am on Thursdays, Fridays and Sat.
(the location of all the bars)
(the location of all the bars)
The University, the yellow building in the background is where the majority of my classes are located
The mountains surrounding Oviedo. I took this on our drive into the city.
Hey all,
Sorry it took me a while to get some pictures uploaded. School is going well. This weekend I have to read El Cid and another story so I have about 25 pages to read. Not really looking forward to that at all. Yesterday after class I wandered over to the travel agent to find out about information about inter European flights and who flies direct to where. We are starting to discuss spring break plans so hopefully I will get some exciting trips in.
Random Thoughts:
First off everyone has the first name Maria here, everyone. So because it is normal the Spaniards have though up a shortening system which is M with a tiny a that is in front of every woman's name.
I knew this already but figured I would share since it still is interesting to me. The ring finger here is not located on the left hand but rather the right hand.
The paper towels feel like toilet paper and the toilet paper doesn't exist and there is no tissues in houses. Now I know why the women all carry around tissues in their bags. I officially carry tissues as well.
School Books! I am so use to spending a crazy amount of money on books each semester that this was a new one for me. Each professor makes copies and packets of everything we need for each unit. It is a lot of papers I would say that, but my phonetics class for example gave us a packet for the year. We were able to bring it to the copy center at school and have it bound for a whopping, 60 cents! That would be the max I am spending on books this semester, minus the 5 euros in notebooks and folders I bought. Beat that one!
Last night there was a major storm in the north of Spain. Hurricane like winds and it poured. My entertainment instead of venturing out in the bad weather was siting on our balcony and watching he garbage cans fly into the traffic circle. As that happened crash would come to a halting stop and another car would nearly collide with the first one. I found it quite entertaining. I am sure they did not. Because of the weather I did not get out of bed to bother going to the market and was told this afternoon they close anyway for rain since no one comes. Although tomorrow isn't looking like a very good day for the market either. I guess I am going to have to wait another week for the market.
I had paella today for lunch, which made me happy however I am not a big fan of shrimp when I need to remove their head and legs and everything else. It is just too much work for a damn shrimp. The food still is not my favorite thing in the world here. I'll survive.
Adios!
Erika
Sorry it took me a while to get some pictures uploaded. School is going well. This weekend I have to read El Cid and another story so I have about 25 pages to read. Not really looking forward to that at all. Yesterday after class I wandered over to the travel agent to find out about information about inter European flights and who flies direct to where. We are starting to discuss spring break plans so hopefully I will get some exciting trips in.
Random Thoughts:
First off everyone has the first name Maria here, everyone. So because it is normal the Spaniards have though up a shortening system which is M with a tiny a that is in front of every woman's name.
I knew this already but figured I would share since it still is interesting to me. The ring finger here is not located on the left hand but rather the right hand.
The paper towels feel like toilet paper and the toilet paper doesn't exist and there is no tissues in houses. Now I know why the women all carry around tissues in their bags. I officially carry tissues as well.
School Books! I am so use to spending a crazy amount of money on books each semester that this was a new one for me. Each professor makes copies and packets of everything we need for each unit. It is a lot of papers I would say that, but my phonetics class for example gave us a packet for the year. We were able to bring it to the copy center at school and have it bound for a whopping, 60 cents! That would be the max I am spending on books this semester, minus the 5 euros in notebooks and folders I bought. Beat that one!
Last night there was a major storm in the north of Spain. Hurricane like winds and it poured. My entertainment instead of venturing out in the bad weather was siting on our balcony and watching he garbage cans fly into the traffic circle. As that happened crash would come to a halting stop and another car would nearly collide with the first one. I found it quite entertaining. I am sure they did not. Because of the weather I did not get out of bed to bother going to the market and was told this afternoon they close anyway for rain since no one comes. Although tomorrow isn't looking like a very good day for the market either. I guess I am going to have to wait another week for the market.
I had paella today for lunch, which made me happy however I am not a big fan of shrimp when I need to remove their head and legs and everything else. It is just too much work for a damn shrimp. The food still is not my favorite thing in the world here. I'll survive.
Adios!
Erika
1 comment:
My quick facts and random thoughts are part of my daily life, and don't you worry I spew out plenty of Temple quick facts on the streets of Spain.
And yes the count was over a dozen of people who died from that storm. An entire kids soccer team was killed in Barcelona when the gyms roof collapsed in. Really sad.
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