So we went to the bakery Zuricalday this past Tuesday and ate delicious baked goods! I had cabello de angel which was beyond delicious and then had a "Carolina" I think, which is specific to the Bilbao or Pais Vasco area. We were taking all these pictures and the woman who worked there came over to us and asked us if we didn't have pastry shops because we were just so amazed :P but I told her not like this. There's just such a variety of delicious cute baked goods!
Then we woke up to catch a bus at 4:30 AM to head to Pamplona to see the running of the bulls (el encierro) for the Sanfermines festival which was going on that whole week. The custom is to wear white with a red belt and red scarf. People. are. crazy! I also find it pretty insane that the bulls know exactly where to go. They came storming in with SO many people and then after el encierro they brought out vaquillos which are kind of like small bulls. The people who ran into the ring then basically tried to confront the vaquillo while the vaquillo trampled and rammed into people, scary! One guy jumped over the vaquillo, while another one just grabbed it by the horns. Great to watch though :P. We then just walked around Pamplona for a while, but the streets were pretty quiet because people were just passed out from partying all night/week. People literally do not sleep for an entire week for Sanfermines...I NEED sleep. LOCOS. We had chocolate with churros yum! Also a local Spainard helped us find our way to our bus and she was so nice, yay friendly people! I bought a Sanfermines scarf, which I will probably wear during Sanfermines next year...by myself, or with Brittany jaja (I totally just pronounce jaja how it looks in English because that's even funnier).
Then we went to San Sebastian which is a GORGEOUS city, it's just too bad the weather didn't get quite good enough right when we got there to go swimming right away because we only had a couple hours :(, when I come back to Spain (yes when :D) I will definitely take advantage of the gorgeous beaches of San Sebastian. Instead we took some pictures and had some pintxos and sangria, so not a bad second choice. Before we actually got into San Sebastian we had lunch with the program and we met this girl who was teaching Spanish through Teach For America which is really cool to me. She's going into her second year with the program in Connecticut. Also, her little sister who is 10, was so cute! She was checking herself out in the reflection of her spoon and when she saw that I saw what she was doing she laughed.
Another thing: In class today our professor (who is so awesome, Natalia Gomez from Grand Valley but is from Bilbao) told us about this program that one of her students is doing in Peru where you help the indigenous people use the resources of their country to better themselves (as opposed to imposing outside things) called PROWORLD. I'm definitely going to research it, ah so many things I want to do with my life! After this experience I just really want to be able to keep up and keep improving my Spanish and be able to utilize it, just finding a way to do it will be my first challenge. OK well WE ARE OFF TO BARCELONA! If I forgot something I will add it later, ADIOS CHICOS!
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