Sevilla Continued

So there was a pillow fight in the main town square which was fun to watch!

and we spent some time in the Alcazar Gardens - a huge abandoned palace and the gardens are amazing! This is just one part of the gardens..

Here is part of the ornate wall - just one wall of the thousands throughout the Alcazar

We took a tour of the Plaza Del Torros - Bull fighting! I wasn't there during the season but I would have LOVED to see a bull fight...the Cock fighting in Puerto Rico was the closest I got to seeing animals involved in a fight...I'll have to go back for a Bull fight at some point

The Plaza De Espana - Beautiful!!!!

I had an amazing time! Spanyards are loud unlike Czechs. And the weather...did i mention that? Lemme say again...amazing!!

I'm going to have to do another tour in Spain at some point...amazing country!

Sevilla

Sevilla was unbelievable!

I stayed with my friend Erica and her roommates. Erica and my friend Carolyn showed me around while I was there and it was a blast!

First of all...it was about 80 degrees out every day, sun

ny, and beautiful! We ate every meal outside and I wore T-shirts! We walked around the city and walked through some beautiful gardens. We hit up every major site in Sevilla. We went to see a flamenco show which was awesome (sorry picture is small...)

We went to the Torra del Oro which is a tower that you can climb up and had a bunch of history exhibits on the way up. The commentary on the Audio guide was in first person so it was pretty funny and it was a good review for Carolyn and Erica's test. 

Then we went to St. Stephans Cathedral which is the 3rd largest in the world next to the Vatican and the Cathedral in London (forget the name). It was massive and very beautiful and had a lot of cool things inside to see including the grave of Christopher Columbus!

Then we walked around gardens for a bit and saw lots of big trees and t-shirts --- these were some of my favorite

haha

Terezin

It's a whole town. A town where just 50 years ago, Jews from all around Bohemia and Moravia were deported to. Our tour guide was a very cute old man who has survived Terezin and Auchwitz. He had escaped four times throughout the war and seen many of his family members perish. It didn't even seem to bother him when we walked by the cemetery near the crematorium and he said casually, "o, by the way, my mother is buried in one of these two mass graves...i don't know which one."
This man has had a book written about his story and also testified for the Spielberg foundation. I can't remember his name right now but Andrew bought the book...so i'll let you know later...
Anyway...we ate lunch at this place called memorial restaurant which we were told after was a building where a massacre of Jews occurred.
We toured the museum barracks and saw exhibitions on the art and theater and music of Terezin.

I am doing a paper for one of my classes on the comparison between Terezin and Lodz in Poland...so I'll have more info on Terezin to share once I start that.

Losing my manhood??

So I would like your opinion on this one (this is a test to see who is reading...not that i write that often or care at all).

Saturday night Jack and I (just the two of us...weird..) went to the Pussycat Dolls concert in Prague. I don't know what to think of myself...it was good...the music wasn't my favorite, but the performers were just amazing dancers. There were a lot of guys there like us that didn't seem to be with their girlfriends or wives. It seemed like a pretty mixed crowd....there were a lot of little girls there with their mothers though...

The best part of the night is that it didn't matter what section our tickets were. We climbed into different sections twice with the last section being the VIP one on the side of the stage...pretty cool!

Recording and Movies...

During the week here, I lead a pretty normal life. I sleep, I cook, I clean, I go to class, go to the movies, go out, and take random trips.

Last week, I recorded my solo for Rak Shalom Tirkedi Halayla. I traveled out to Prague 5 to this guy who turned a basement into a studio and he recorded me. The problem was that Michael told me it was recorded at the wrong rate - so I have to go back and do it again when I have a chance (probably this coming Sunday night). It was good that it didnt work though because I don't think it came out too welll...my voice sounded strained and the sickness was coming through (as the guy in the studio said).

I saw Benjamin Button - weird movie...but good.

I'm really glad movies come out here a lot later than they do in the U.S. because I was really behind on my movie going at home!

Spinkleruv Mlyn

I like waiting for laundry...it gives me time to write!

I am getting really behind here...so the next couple entries will catch us up until this point.

Classes have been going well. My Monday's and Wednesday's are tough but I've been making it through!

The weekend After Berlin I went skiing! Jack, Zach, Hilary and I rented a car and drove up to the border of the Czech Republic and Poland (NE). The whole border of the Czech Republic is mountains. This teeny little car had a lot of pep to it! But it was sleeting/snowing on the way up there so we had to take it carefully.

We got to our very nice hotel, and went out on the town. It is a nice small ski town with lots of lodges and restaurants. We had a nice Italian dinner. I had the olives appetizer and pizza with tuna which was very good. Then we went to this place at the top of the hill that had music playing and searchlights called Silver Rock. It was obviously the place to be because it was packed! We ordered a drink to share and then sat there for a while, danced a little bit, then went home to get rested for the long day ahead of us.

The whole time we were in Spindleruv Mlyn, it was snowing! It didn't stop! Which made conditions for skiing ideal. We went up the first hill and not only was it the hardest thing I had ever done...Hilary had never skied before so props to her! The hills got progressively harder but we all made it through with some minor falls. We got very wet!

At lunch we went to the lodge at the bottom of the mountain. Part of the menu was in Hebrew...which was weird and I have no idea why...

Anyway, we finished our day and sat down to a delicious dinner which none of us ate because we weren't hungry. I had one out of my three veggie fajitas! But I did have a veggie taco soup before for an appetizer which was delicious! Plus it was an earlier dinner...i have to defend myself when it comes to food!

We drove back and thought the roads were going to be worse then they were because it had been snowing for the past day...but they were fine and it wasn't sleeting or snowing at the time we left so that helped!