Córdoba y Más de Sevilla

This past weekend I stayed in Sevilla and took a day trip on Saturday to Córdoba with my program. We visited the Mezquita there and it was gorgeous! All of the columns had the same red stripes. Here is a picture of me in the Mezquita!

We then toured the gardens there and found a cute café outside and had drinks and ice cream. It was a really relaxing day! Saturday was also St. Patty’s Day so when we got back we went to this huge tent party in a park. There wasn’t any green beer but at least we found somewhere that was celebrating St. Patty’s Day (it isn’t nearly as big here)! Then we went to Tex Mex, an American Bar close to the Cathedral, and were able to catch the 2^nd half of the Madison basketball game!! We saw them win and make it to the Sweet 16 so that was awesome! Still so happy to be a Badger, even here in Spain. And I was finally able to eat some mozzarella sticks, which I have been craving for some reason since I left. It was such a fun and chill night out in Sevilla!

On Sunday, I went to the park with my intercambio Jose and we spoke in Spanish for a full hour and English for a full hour. I can see my Spanish improving each time we hangout and I am really excited about this! We also got into a spiritual conversation and I could see God at work. I am praying God would continue to use me here in Spain!

We got our exams back today from our midterms and I did a lot better than I had expected. I am much less stressed about school now so that is a huge blessing!

Some other random, interesting things in Sevilla: Tuesday the 13th here is equivalent to our Friday the 13th so when it was Tuesday, the 13th a couple weeks ago our señora made a joke about it being eerie and Lauren and I didn't understand the reference until we learned this! And another random thing is that I never used to like game shows but after watching the same game show every night during dinner, I am starting to become a fan! I think I could win some Euros on this show, even in Spanish because we watch it so much!

I am off to Morocco tomorrow until Saturday night. Africa will be the 4^th continent I've been able to travel to so I am getting really pumped! I will be blogging about my experience there sometime next week! :)

xoxo, Rebekah