Hola todos! I'm officially in Sevilla, Spain and having an amazing time already! We arrived in Seville at around 4:30pm their time (around 10:30am). Regardless of what people say, there actually aren't that many people here that speak english, even in the airports and getting a taxi was kind of difficult. So, somehow we found Amelia's house and finally had someone that could understand us. However, instead of going to bed after being sleep-deprived for 48 hours, we went out to the bars! :) We went out to dinner and had bocadillos (little sandwiches) and met some of Amelia's friends. --Never forget the "kiss..kiss" to say hello because if you don't do it, it's just awkward. After dinner, we went to a club called "Rebotika" and talked to as many people as possible. :)

bocadillos!

Here is Rebotika and on the walls are foreign comics... all of which are obscene.

The bars and restaurants here are also very small and barely have any seating. Any fast food restaurant at home has more space and places to sit than here. This bar was practically like a closet, smaller than my room at home! And everyone just stands around drinking and talking and they just squeeze through the crowd to walk around.

Here's what was happening last night at apprx 12-3am in the street Seville. People just having a huge block party in the streets. Apparently, this was a small one, and they happen every Wednesday-Sunday. Oh... Spaniards.. :) Even young kids don't go to bed until around 11-12pm here and everyone can just drink outside in the streets and there are no police patrolling around for underage drinkers and marijuana. So much less stressful and yet also, so strange. Also, the clubs are open at 10pm but no one is in them until 12am and they close at 8am! When do these people sleep???

So, thursday also happens to be a holy day, and so some people dress up in traditional flamenco style dresses. Here are some of them that we took a picture with when we passed them in the street!

So... my first night in Seville was very eventful but we were EXHAUSTED!! Hence, we woke up at 2:30 in the afternoon the next day! So far, Spain is fun but also a little stressful since no one speaks english and not many people want to wait for you to try and speak spanish.. (just like in the US with foreigners). Seville also doesn't look like I expected. It looks pretty much like a regular city so far, with lots of apartment buildings and businesses/shops, instead of beautiful ornate historical buildings. Here is one though, the cathedral downtown. It is incredible with detail and is enormous. The only problem is that the streets are so tiny and the buildings are so close together that you can't really get a good picture of the whole thing at once.

That's all for now.. more tomorrow because I must go to sleep! Adios!