Cordoba and other adventures

Hello again! Yesterday we woke up very early (well very early here is anything before 9) to go with our entire group from UNC to Cordoba. The drive was about an hour and a half by bus and the historic part of the city was absolutely beautiful! We got a tour from two of our professors about the mosque and cathedral (picture with the orange trees in front of it).

Colleen and me outside what we called our new "sand castle"

After being shown around the city, we got to eat our bocadillos that our mom had packed us for lunch. It wasn't quite the same as my mom's PB&J nor did it have a handwritten note. She gave us two sandwiches (I think she thinks we eat a lot), apples, oranges, a bag of lays chips, a spanish version of twix bars and two juice boxes of chocolate milk (people were very jealous about the chocolate milk and candy bar...most spaniards aren't very big on their sweets it seems). After lunch we had 2 hours to walk around and see more of the city. We found a cute place and sat down for drinks with some other girls on the program. Everyone I've met seems really great so far! It's so easy to make friends that it feels like freshman year all over again. Afterwards we got back on the bus and headed back to Sevilla!


When we got back to the house, the kids had a babysitter there and their parents were at some bar watching the soccer game. The 17 year old babysitter was rather awkwardly put in charge of making dinner for us. She warmed up some left over chicken noddle soup for us that was pretty good. We then went to this sports bar Tex Mex that was playing the UNC game. Almost all 40 of us were there I think and we must have just been bad luck seeing as how poorly we played. We tried our best not to let it get us down though and spent the rest of the night celebrating my and 2 other students there acceptance into UNC's business school. We found our way to Calle Betis which was the most crowded late night street we've found so far. We met a good amount of people from all over (Some girls from South Carolina, some people from Ireland, and of course lots of Spaniards).
So far today we've eaten our lunch (paella...which apparently we'll be eating every Sunday!) and have been trying to figure out which University classes to sign up for. Below are some new pictures! Enjoy! Hasta luego :)

Colleen and me with Maria (Grey sweater) and Carmen (Red)

Me and Carmen! Her tights never stay up haha. She also insists on sitting "a lado de Maggie" (next to me) at meals and whenever I'm in the family room--She's adorable!)

La Paella

Luis (our homestay dad) cooking the Paella for lunch!

My friend Gabi and me outside of the cathedral in Sevilla at night. Beautiful right?