Sweltering Spain

So my four years of highschool spanish are paying off slightly although it is much more fun to have translators or go charade style (especially when I was trying to understand some of the girls at the pool party that we went to... they were reading "Cosmo" and an article about"60 sexy things to do for your man" or something like that)... Yo no se. Anyway, I am continually impressed with Jons, or Juanillo (as they call him here) ability to speak Spanish...his Spaninsh class in Sevilla must have paid off (what did you get in that class Juanillo?)..

Last night we went down a small street in Sevilla where we slid through a red door and into a small courtyard where we went through to a large room. Everyone in the room was focused on the flemenco dancer in the front of the room! Juanillo ordered some huge pitcher of something called Agua Sevilla...that seemed to contain lemon flavored juice, sugar, whipped cream, cinnamon, and plenty of alcohol. Needless to say we could not finish the whole thing! The dancing and music, clapping, and singing were all an amazing experience! Today we went into the Cathedral, the largeset in the world according to cubic volume... it is difficult to tell though because many of the bays are filled with elaborate altar pieces.. my favorite part was the tomb that supposedly contained Christopher Columbus...we decided that it was the most impressive tomb we have seen yet.. then we climbed to the top of the tower (no day is complete without tons of walking and climbing!) the view was spectacular!

So far in Spain my favorite things have been:(in no order)
1. the beach at Malaga..
2. Pool party in Sevilla at Jons friends place
3. Understanding any part of what anyone says in spanish
4. Cruzcampo beer
5. Jon making his hair fro like Michael Jackson
6. Flemenco dancer
7. Cold showers
8. The cathedral at night
9. beating jon in the video game that his italian friends play (the tally now includes fooseball, mini-golf and kickboxing)