Where has the time gone?????? I can’t believe that a week from today I leave Granada. 5 months seems like it should be a long time, but somehow it goes by in the blink of the eye (cliché, I know, but it’s true!). Next week at this time I will be on my way to Madrid to catch a flight to Budapest, which will be the beginning of my last month of traveling around Europe. But before I get to all that, I have one last adventure to write about…
Bienvenidos a Nerja
Last weekend was our last real weekend free (this weekend we have to study for finals...bummer) so we decided to take full advantage. There had been talk of doing a big group trip to Nerja, a beach town about 2 hours away from Granada, but I was never really sure if it was going to happen. One of our friends took charge, though, and actually got it organized. We rented a villa near the beach, filled it with 22 people and had a great time!
On Thursday we took a bus to Nerja, got in around 6:30, did some grocery shopping, cooked a huge pasta dinner and all hung out around the pool. Friday morning Anne and I made pancakes for everyone, we all hung out and took our time getting ready and eventually headed down to the beach. The water was really pretty and actually not that cold, but there was something funky going on (red-tide looking) so after a while we went back up and spent the rest of the day by the pool.
Making room for more pasta
Saturday we took a bus into town so we could go to one of the nicer beaches but unfortunately it was windy and a little cold. We explored Nerja for a bit and when it started to rain we decided it was time to go home. Since it wasn’t quite tourist season yet the busses weren’t running regularly so we ended up just walking back to our house in the rain (took about 40 minutes). Luckily it wasn’t cold. We spent the night hanging out, playing our very much missed American college party games and called it a night before we got any sound complaints.
Sunday morning was absolutely gorgeous, which made it all the more difficult to leave. We basked by the pool until early afternoon and when the time came we got on a bus back to Granada.
It was a super fun “last-hurrah” weekend, mostly because we got to hang out with almost all of the people in our program that we have gotten to be pretty good friends with this semester. It’s pretty sad to think that after Friday we aren’t going to be seeing these people on a regular basis (I am NOT looking forward to college graduation). The good thing is, though, that all the schools that participate in our program are located in Washington or Oregon, so it will be easy enough to have Granada reunions. I really hope they happen!
*ps: i stole all these pictures from other people's facebooks.
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