Finally time for some pictures! The picture on the left is Maria, and she was more than happy to pose for the camera so I'm sure you'll be seeing more of her. I haven't had a chance to take a picture of the other kids yet, but I'll do that soon! Last night we ended up going to the flamenco bar and walking around town a little bit to see what Sevilla has to offer. The city is beautiful and so fun to walk around. The streets are all cobblestone and there are orange trees everywhere. Our "mom" drew us a map to the flamenco bar and Maggie and I set out on a journey to find it. After turning down about 100 roads tiny back roads we finally found it, and it was a little hole in the wall bar. We were the only Americans there and it was so fun! We felt like real Spaniards and it was only our second night.

We listened to a man play flamenco music and sing and then later on a woman and a man gave a dance performance. We got a lot of stares for being random Americans at a hole in the wall bar, but it was still really fun.

Today we slept late and then walked around the city for a little bit. The weather is perfect here, about 60 degrees, and we found our way back to the school without a map (which is impressive for us, especially in a town with no road signs). We learned how to sign up for classes and it sounds like Spain has a very different education system. They don't really follow a syllabus or have readings or do anything American at all. But that might be nice. We walked by the university today and it is massive. It looks like a castle and is apparently one of the oldest universities in Europe. I'm excited to take classes at a place that is so beautiful.

We take two classes at the university and then two classes at a school called EUSA, which has classes catered towards UNC kids. EUSA has a little cafeteria that has snacks and beer on tap. This education system certainly is different than the US :)

I'm also going to add some pictures of my house, which apparently is in some magazine for being well decorated.

Above is the conjoined dining room/living room. The table you can see in the living room is a heated table so you pull the cloth up over you like a blanket and its warm underneath. Everyone here has them and its something we definitely need to bring to the US.

This is the kitchen, and the table in there is where we eat every day. Our "mom" is very nice and lets us have free reign of the kitchen, which is pretty rare compared to the other students here. Maggie and I both brought Moravian cookies as a gift for our family, which is really funny since she isn't even from Winston-Salem. I'm sure our house mom thinks that Moravian cookies are a staple of the American diet now.

This is just a picture of one of the random streets we walked down. You can see the orange trees on the left and the cobblestone streets.

The street we live on looks more like a city street but the historic district right next to us looks like this all over. There are horse drawn carriages everywhere and they wash the streets every night so its a really pretty part of town.

Tomorrow we're going to Cordoba, which is about an hour and a half from here. It is our first "excursion" that we take with the entire group. We're meeting at 8:30 to go and have to have a bagged lunch; so I feel a little bit like an elementary schooler going on a field trip, but I am excited. Apparently there is a lot of Muslim influence and there is a beautiful mosque, so I will be sure to take some pictures.

These last two pictures are from the flamenco bar.

After we get back from Cordoba tomorrow we're going to a bar we found called Tex Mex that will play the UNC games for us. They play tomorrow at 2 pm American time so 8 pm our time, and our entire program is going together to watch the game, so that should be really fun. I'll update again soon with hopefully more pictures of my family! Hasta luego.