viernes, 7 de junio

Our last Friday of classes had officially arrived...and I was more sad to know classes and the trip was coming to a close soon enough.  We had our classes as usual and my Spanish class was sent on a mission during our class to buy 30 xuxu's (creme stuffed pastries) for the group as a surprise later.  We all had to stay for the history class for a guest speaker who told us all about Valencian oranges and how they're related to California and vice versa.  It was very interesting to listen to.  After classes we headed home for lunch.  Jamel made some delicious baked chicken served with ham flavored potato chips and rice.  Always the most interesting combinations but we enjoy it.

After lunch we headed off to Las Fallas museum.  We grabbed a taxi and when we let us off we acted like we were pro's of the city walking like we knew where the entrance was...psh of course we didn't so when we turned around the corner to find a blank wall we had to turn back around and pass the taxi driver who I'm sure was laughing at us.  Come to find out, if either of us had actually looked in front of us when we got out of the taxi we would have seen the LARGE orange sign that said Museo Fallero.  This museum holds the figurines from the Las Fallas festival that are saved at the end of the festival from being burned down.  They're all made of cardboard and styrofoam for the most part and look almost life like.  The actual sculptures in the festival are hugeee in comparison to the ones we witnessed.  I suggest googling the festival, absolutely crazy.  When we finished there we decided to cross the street and check out the arts and sciences area instead of paying for a taxi to go back.  It was cool to see again, beautiful place.

Money at Las Fallas

We were really tempted to do this

To keep the trend of getting everything done in one day we crossed the next street to go to Corte Ingles which is a oversized Macy's basically.  We got a little shopping done and then headed back home to "work" on homework a bit before getting ready for the night.  Gemma and Jamel went out and left us dinner on the table....tuna dinner...  So we left the tuna there for them to enjoy the next day and headed out for a slice of pizza.  We stopped at this place called Kebab Pizzeria.  Kinda sketchy but we were desperate.  I played it safe and got two slices of cheese and Jen...well Jen found out after she took one bite of her pizza that she got one with Tuna on it...hahah quite entertaining for me.

We headed back home to get ready for the night and Jake and John came over to hang out for a little before we headed to the Plazas.  We met the group at the Plaza as we usually do and headed to the cheap beer and sangria place again.  We hung out there for a while and then headed to Radio City again.  Radio City was fun for a while but we got sick of it pretty fast and were ready to move on so we gathered a few other roommate pairs and went elsewhere.  We didn't last other places long because apparently the outwardly gay couples flourish at the night time and it was...quite interesting...so we went back home with a few other girls who live near us.  The night was really fun overall but after a long week of classes and being busy we were ready to hit the hay and get rested up for a lovely beach day ahead!