i don't know who this guy is, but he's peekable and just did the cha cha with some chick. if i had my phone i'd vote for him, and his skin tight cha cha pants.
still can't understand much of what they say on tv, but it's mostly dancing, so all good. the overachiever in me thinks i should practice watching tv more. ;)
my first week here is wrapping up. saturday and today i got to sleep in. beautiful. from now until february 3 (pienso?) my only commitment is a 3-hour intensive course from 6-9pm monday - friday. university classes start in february after this intensive course, so we have 3 weeks to pick our classes and finalize everything.
basically, i'll have a shitload of time to wander around and take pics. speaking of which, es un poco raro porque i am realizing that i suck at being a tourist (though can you really call yourself a tourist if you've got a visa longer than 3 months?). i'll have the normal monument/art/famous building foto every now and then, but most of my pics are of everyday things that occur in the city.
yesterday, we took a tour of the church of san fernando and it was really neat b/c they're restoring it and we got to tour the crypts as we heard about its history and how it used to be a muslim mosque but was converted to a church after the conquest of spain. i prob took one pic of the whole thing. after we left, and as we were walking through the tiny streets, we stumbled across a big ass garbage truck that got stuck and was scraping all these parked cars. this was happening in front of another church where someone had just gotten married, and there were all these dressed up people standing around yelling at the truck driver for hitting all the cars...i stood there and took a shitload of pics, as opposed to my 1 or so pics from the tour.
restoration of iglesia san fernando
elena posing. they made us wear hard hats for safety reasons. for further safety reasons, no pic of me and my hat will be shown, as it was painfully embarrassing, the near inability of my hard hat to fit on my head.
walking through the maze of tiny ass alleys that look like cars couldn't fit and shouldn't pass through but trust me they do and they will. also, if you look closely, you can see the sidewalk.
ducking into a shop b/c the truck came by and would have hit us if we didn't act like we were making sweet, sweet love to the walls & also the driver saying thanks for doing so.
garbage truck hitting all the cars and the tuxedo'd people WTFing
*sorry for the semi-dark pics. the flash on my camera sucks, and yesterday it rained for the first time since we've been here (which is good b/c they're currently going through a drought), so it was cloudy to begin with. i'll take better pics cuando hace sol and share them b/c the city really is quite charming when it's not soggy.
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