My Granada Routine

Old Town

So I´ve been in this amazing city for over a week now and it still hasn´t lost any of its magical charm. I still walk around in awe and love discovering new hidden places. My professor talks about the history of this city and the other day he was referring to the city´s streets that were made in the year 713! It blows me away that this place has been around for so long, that the stones that line the walkways I use everyday had been places there by the fingers of someone (most likely a slave) from the year 713!!! And the craziest thing is, compared to other cities like Rome and the Greek cities, Granada is not even that old. Europe is so old I can barely grasp these ideas! We are such babies in our country (of course the Native Americans can claim history much older than ours)!

School Days
Anyways, now that I´m here for 2 weeks (and 2 days) studying, I´ve adapted to a routine, more or less.
Everyday I wake up early and always always super tired. Try as I may, it is very rare to sleep well in hostel room with a dozen or so other travelers who either stay out late partying or wake up crazy early to catch trains or planes. I could bore you to death everyday with a story of how and when and why I was woken up the night before. Oh well, such is the price I pay for living in a $25 hostel...

I get ready and eat some breaky (like the Aussies say) and then walk 15 minutes to my school. As mentioned before, I am always extra-tired in the morning and then go to sit in a warm room while a professor speaks to us in super-fast Spanish that takes all my effort to keep my eyes open and my brain working. It´s so easy for all those words to turn into bladeeblahdeebladeeblah at that time of the day. So I try when I have time to grab a cafe con leche to help the process.

I have class from 9 til 1 in the afternoon with a 30 min break in there. My professors are cool and I think do their best to make it interesting. I´m going to be nice today and not go into how I feel about the other students in my class. I´ll just say Thank God for the people I hang out with at my hostel!!!

La Siesta
After school I go home and make lunch (usually an amazingly deelish sandwich if I do say so myself!) Then comes my favorite part of the day- la siesta! Everyday I watch all these high-strung Americans and super-busy Asians try to resist the siesta and say "Ugh, I feel so lazy sitting around! I can´t believe I just took an hour nap!" But what they need to learn is that you can´t resist the siesta! You just need to give in! Not only is it way hot and this South Spanish sun really intense, but the whole city shuts down! You can´t even really go anywhere anyways! So everyday from 2pm until about 6pm, I relax and read and nap and write and do art in my book and I love it! I think I am very good at doing the siesta. Siesta champ, I am!

Once it cools down a bit, I´ll leave the hostel and get some food, do email, go to a park, or just walk around and explore. Not a bad life, no?

My Nightlife
In the evenings, I hang out with other travelers. At the hostel, they have an excellent cook who makes amazing dinners that we can eat for $4! Sometimes I go out with people to the bars or whatever and other times I just hang out at the hostel and read or even watch a movie or whatever.

So, that´s what I´ve been up to! I´m taking a beach vacation to escape the daily grind of my studious life in Granada ;) this weekend and then on Wednesday, I´m off to Morocco!

Thanks for reading! Thanks for emailing! I´ll post more photos next time! Hasta luego...