Friday night several of the students in our program got together to have dinner at the international fair that's taking place in El Prado (a park near the city center). I went to the "Greek" food station and got a chicken gyro. It was absolutely delicious! They have SO many different types of food (food from France, Egypt, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, and Italy just to name a few...oh and of course from the US). The US booth has BBQ ribs, french fries, and brownies just to name a few. :) After we ate, Tiffany and I browsed some of the vendors items. I was mainly looking for Christmas presents and was lucky enough to get some really good deals. I got something for Amanda and Jessica as well as something for Ythol. I also bought myself a really nice belt. :)
Saturday it rained most of the morning. I know, I know...rain? in Sevilla? But I am telling the truth. It was pretty gloomy out most of the day until about 5pm. At that point, all of a sudden the sun comes out and it looks like it never even rained. After being cooped up in the house all day I decided to venture out to "Wal-mart." Of course, there isn't really a Wal-mart, but the Spanish version of Wal-mart is called Alcampo. Luckily for us, it is literally on the street behind our house. It's built into a shopping center so there are a couple of other stores in the "mall" with it. I first went to get some more hair mousse from a bath and beauty store and then wander into a couple of clothing stores. I didn't have any luck finding clothes that I really liked, but I did buy a brown belt for....ONE EURO. I was pretty excited about that. Then I went into Alcampo. I had been a couple of times before, but I had only looked at the grocery section. This time I wandered into the other sections of the store. I discovered that they have a "dollar" (aka a "euro") section kind of like Target's. It has a LOT bigger selection of stuff though---it was about 3 or 4 aisles full of stuff for 1 euro. Then I got a box of Special K because I was almost out. After that I went back home and spent most of the day working on law school applications. I'll be soooo happy when I finally get them all in!
Today I met the girl that I mentioned in my previous blog post (that I met at Starbucks) to go to church together. We were planning on getting coffee together first but we decided to try and find the church first and then if we had time we would stop for coffee. Of course we got a little turned around but were able to find the church. We went to a nearby cafeteria and got an orange juice and chatted for a little while before church. The church service was a lot like a COGOP service back home. It's an Assembly of God church which is Pentecostal just like the COGOP. They sang several songs and even though they were all in Spanish, I could understand them and I really liked all of them. The pastor preached on Galatians Chapter 2 11-21. Of course there were parts of the sermon that I didn't understand due to the language barrier, but the majority of it (probably 95% or so) I did understand. It was really cool to attend a service in Spanish....I really enjoyed it. We had communion today as well, which was very similar to communion back home. The only difference was that they used real loaves of bread that they broke into small pieces so everyone could take part.
Well, I have class at 8:30 in the morning so I should probably head to bed! At least it's my only class tomorrow and I don't have class on Tuesday! Hopefully I'll do something really exciting in the next couple of days so I can share it with everyone! :)
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