Can't believe it's already March!! The time here is going sooo fast. The next couple weeks are full of exams and then we finish our first "semester" on the 16th. It's getting warmer! Supposed to be in the high 60s by the end of the week/this weekend.
Last Saturday we went to Salamanca on a school excursion.
Salamanca is has one of the oldest universities and is famous for it's facade. The two doors represent the good path in life and the bad path. The good one leads up a steeper path to the class rooms, and the other easier one goes down into the tavern in the basement.
Below is la rana, frog, on top of the skull. It's in the middle of the right pillar. It's supposed to be good luck to find the frog. The trick is for someone to bring a mirror and reflect it off the sun to point it out to everyone.
We had a lot of free time so Jenny, Jamie and I wandered around town to the el Rio de Tormes. We read a story in our literature class called Lazarillo de Tormes, it's a famous work from the Spanish Renaissance.
Lazaro with el ciego, his blind master.
Roman bridge.
Me, Jamie, Jenny on the bridge. They took a vow to speak only in Spanish for the month of March (unless it's after 11pm :P ) so we spoke in Spanish all day! Also went to El Parque de los Jesuitos during our free time and met some guys studying in Salamanca from California. Salamanca is supposed the city in Spain with the most erasmus (foreign) students.
We then visited the Cathedral of Salamanca. It's huge! Surrounding where the big mass would take place there is a ton of smaller areas dedicated to certain families for their own private mass/funerals/tumbs.
Our teacher pointed this out to us.. This is a part of the facade of the cathedral. When parts of the decorations were restored in the 60s? there were some elements added. Here's an astronaut!
And here's a gargoyle..eating an ice cream cone!
The next weekend was Erin's (my roommate) birthday. Maria had her brother-in-law, sister and nephew over for lunch. We had snails!! Everyone got a nail and you stick it in the shell to pull out the snail to eat. Then our dish was squid. It was really chewy and that inky color but it was all really good. Then we had rice and potatoes for the main course and then flan for dessert. We helped Maria make it the night before. It's a dessert made out of condensed milk and eggs and you cook it in the over in a "Maria bath" and top it with carmalized sugar. Yum!!
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