After months of preparations and planning, I can't believe that I am finally in Spain. Even more, I can't believe that I am already five days into my stay! Despite the slow, laid-back way of life here, time passes quickly. I am always amazed when I look at my watch and see that it is already six in the evening.
Much has happened in these first couple days. I've already met a lot of other international students from Italy, Germany, Austria, Scotland, Mexico and many other countries, all of whom are very nice and fun to be around. On Friday, La Universidad de Burgos threw a welcoming party at a local bar called El Cielo for all of the internationals. We stayed there for awhile and then left to check out some other bars in the area.
Last night our friends María, Belén and Álvaro took us out for Spanish tapas, or little appetizers, which is something that they normally do here to start out a typical night. When people go out for tapas, everyone in the group contributes about five euros before ordering, and each person gets a tapa and a glass of wine or a beer. Once the tapa and drink are finished, the group will continue on to other tapas bars for another of each. Last night we went to about four different bars for tapas and all of it was delicious. Afterwards we went to a pub to play a couple drinking games and drink Calimocho, which is half red wine, half coca-cola. It might sound gross but it’s great! It’s my new favorite drink. We went to a couple of other places throughout the night, all of which were packed with people and a lot of fun. Here in Spain everyone stays out until about four in the morning and many people will stay out until six or seven. Needless to say, I didn’t wake up very early this morning.
Today was very warm and sunny so Tyler and I went exploring through the city to get to know our way around better, and to see how long it takes to walk to the university from our apartment. There were so many people out just walking around and relaxing on benches, so I guess that everyone was trying to take advantage of the nice weather like we were. After walking around for awhile we were able to find the castle in Burgos, which is at the top of a mountain outside of the city. The view of the city is breathtaking and I’d love to go up there at night to see Burgos all lit up. Fortunately, Tyler had his camera with him so he took plenty of pictures of the beautiful scenery.
My classes at the university will start tomorrow and I am actually pretty excited to see what they will be like. I’ve been told that they don’t require very much work outside of class, which will be great if that is true! I want to have as much free time as possible so that I can really enjoy my time here in España. :)
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