The Tour ("ter") That No One Cared About

So we went on this tour on our first day(Monday the 14th). First off though we took an hour long test and then went and got our bus passes. Mine is awesome.Anyways, on the way to get the pictures we walked into an alley that was enclosed and as we came up I noticed a lady stand up and zip and button her pants. Andrew was ahead of me and when they had walked up she was squatted and she took a dump in the middle of the street. My professor said that she was a gypsy.

So we went on the tour through the city and we had a man and woman tour guides that were totally on robot play mode. You could tell they had given this exact tour dozens of times. Even the transitions were perfectly timed. It really didn't matter that it was boring though because no one understood anything anyways. We walked through the church and Garret and I said something obscene and got arrested...


Psych! I hope none of you actually fell for that, I wasn't even really trying to be funny, i just wanted some way to get that picture in. In the middle of a tour we passed by a protest rally but I'd have to say it is the weakest rally in the history of protests. No one is doing anything. Everyone is just standing around. We all laughed. Especially when i went this morning and saw that it was out again and doing nothing.
We saw most of the city and i found out that yes, Cervantes, who wrote Don Quixote, was born in Alcala. We went to his house and sat on his bench.Ok. So later that night we decided, after FHE to go to the "platha" and wander around. After an intense race between Garrett and me we went down a back alley and, after realizing there was nothing there, turned and headed back out. We saw a large man with a scruffy beard and a big grey puffy coat coming in our direction. We got to the main road and 10 seconds later he was following us. We tried to dodge him but he was right on our tails. Some of the people we met on the main street didn't believe us but we ducked into a shop and when we left, at first we thought we lost him but then looked down and he was 20 feet away facing away from us so we ran off in the other direction. We made it ok. Later we all went and ate in a little restaurant. It wasn't really good food. We only actually went in because someone dared me to hit on a girl but she was buying cigarettes when i walked in so we just went to the back and sat and watched tennis.
So i have a bunch of pics but the internet is slow here so i'll post them tomorrow!

Alcala!

So, for those of you who i told that i was studying in Madrid, I lied. The program is actually in Alcala, a city some 30 minutes or so outside Madrid. We met at the Central Plaza (pronounced "platha") as you can see above. Its pretty cool looking. In a month or so, or even a few days I'm going to look back and think of myself as an idiot for not knowing this but i am pretty sure alcala has something to do with Don Quixote, like the guy who wrote it lived here or something. Anyways, its a really nice city and really laid back. But the center is still really nice. We live in a really nice neighborhood a quick walk away from the school and the center.

Our family is awesome! Here is a pic of them. There you've got Me, Andrew, Eva with "Laica", Guillermo, and Juan. They are SO relaxed and so fun. They go out of their way to help us to have an awesome experience. Guillermo is 13 and is such a stud. The dog, laica, is the funniest thing. Seriously, i could not have asked for a better deal.

The Arrival

So, I'm here now. Its really great. It was a crazy fun trip and has been non-stop fun since I have arrived!
This is me saying goodbye to some of my family at the SLC airport. Katie, your a cutie. Kindra, you are a monster. They are all in their "jamies" and were a little crazy but i'll sure miss you guys.
Here is my last view of Utah and the beautiful Salt Lake Valley. I'll really miss the mountains and the snow and when i get back when i get back it will all be gone. But is there any question that it won't be worth it? I have going to have SO much fun so i can just say one thing to most of you: have fun scraping your car every morning!
Basically my trip was pretty boring. We headed down to Phoenix. Here is the Grand Canyon. I never really pictured it having snow. Then I was off to Philidelphia, which was really cool looking at night from above. But no picture would turn out from a moving plane in the dark through a window. I wonder why... In Philidelphia i met up with 5 of the girls from our group and we all headed to Madrid. It was a long filght and, between the 3 flights, i only slept like an hour or so. I was really wasted when we landed but even more so that night!