Granada

Whatsup Ma Dus

I'm writing this blog to detail my life in Granada spain and keep ya cats updated. We arrived in Granada yesterday from Malaga where we had our first day of Orientation and getting to know people. It's unfortunate to say but you can tell that this is not a GW group mainly because everyone is unbelievably cool and friendly. The group is comprised of around 80 people, about 3/4 of which are girls. In Granada most people have homestays with host families, about eight are in residence halls, which leaves myself and my American roommate in a Colegio. It is called Colegio Mayor Bartolome y Santiago. We are two Americans living in a small room in a  building built in around 1643 with a courtyard with about 120 Spanish students from other cities in Spain.  Thankfully our neighbors Pablo and Bernardo are really chill. Everyone else is a little distant. It was pretty terrible walking into the dining hall of the Colegio with the other 120 Spanish students staring at us. Every once in a while someone will say hey and introduce themselves though. 

Last night Matt (my roommate) and I walked around Granada and found some Tapas Bars. If you order a beer they give you a tapas included with the beer. It can be sliced ham on bread or fish, whatever the bar decides actually. Two beers and one tapas cost about 3 Euros so its type dope. Last night we got into a conversation with a man at the bar who started going off on a 45 minute monologue about how American involvement in the Spanish-American war killed children or something like that....who knows. The bartender told us he had no idea what the guy was talking about either. 

Thats about it so far, Siesta time (right now) is pretty sweet. The picture above is the entrance to the building. I'll try to add a picture of the courtyard and where my room is.