Today, I realized just how dark I am going to be by the end of this program. We spent a lot of time outside today, which included making some observations about a local street, taking a little trip to the castle of Guardamar, and walking along the the shore of the beach. The castle of Guardamar that our professor took us to is absolutely gorgeous. I mean, it’s history and the view from its peak is. OH MAN. You can see all of Guardamar and the turquoise-blue ocean in the distance. It’s so beautiful. Lu, Melissa, and I plan to go back there to take some pictures up there together, preferably during sunset – or should I say, sunrise… Ah!
After our little talk up at the tower, we watched a tourist video about Guardamar de Segura in the informational store. It was… interesting, haha. I was just tired and unbelievably THIRSTY. I feel like I have been dehydrated ever since I arrived in Spain. There are no water fountains… anywhere! Anyway, before we collapsed a group of us headed to a small candy shop and found some water bottles and bought them… water never tasted so good. Our professor ended up taking us to the beach to check out the beach town and the homes built right up against the shore. That was really interesting. It’s so crazy how people actually LIVE there. The ocean literally comes right up to your front porch. Yeah, I know. The sun was scorching so much and we were all so hungry… bad combination. Luckily, we finished around 2pm and we were allowed to go on our “Siesta” and return to the studio “warehouse” (haha) at 5pm.
We ate lunch at the Pension and the plates kept COMING. Plate after plate after plate of food. Just like the night before… they are really generous when it comes to food. But, I have to remind myself that it’s the only meal we eat a day, really.
After lunch, a big group of us headed over to the Mecadillo – AKA the Safeway of Spain – to buy any necessary food we may need in our rooms. This may sound cliché but everything. is. so. different! The carts they use to cart their food around are small baskets with plastic handles that you pull like a small wagon! It makes America seen “supersized” if that makes sense… in any case, the carts are cute. Once we finished grocery shopping, guess what happened.
It started pouring.
Mind you, we had to carry several grocery bags and cases of water back to the Pension… we grabbed our bags and hurried back as fast as we could. I almost slipped on the sidewalk so many times because of my wet sandals. Yikes!
Other than the internet connection here being really slow or nonexistent, this is what happened today in a nutshell.
16. Eating ketchup with french fries is only an American thing.
17. All of the grocery stores in Spain use cute low level carts instead of the typical grocery carts that we use in the United States.
PS: Studio “officially” started today. It looks like our projects will be group projects.
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