First things first...my mom said I had to post this because it was pretty funny and embarrassing! So, I have been in Spain for almost a month now and have been doing laundry about once a week. I just found out yesterday that the laundry soap I bought the first in my apartment was softener and not soap. For the last month, my clothes have smelled very very good, but nothing has been cleaned. Very smooth move on my part. :)
My roommate Maria, my other USAC friends Jill, Heather, Tiffany and I decided to take a small trip to Biarritz, France for a weekend getaway! On Friday morning we had class as usual and then met at the bus station. Roundtrip to Biarritz was only 12 Euro! It was an hour and half ride through the beautiful countryside crossing the border into France! We arrived in Biarritz and went to the tourist office. We found out there was only one hostel in town and where it was so we could work our way there and have a place for the night. Instead of taking the main street to get there we wanted to walk along the beach. It was such a beautiful day with blue skies and sun! Which we haven't seen in two weeks so it was very exciting! We walked for a little over 2 hours in a completely round about way to our hostel. We checked in and got two rooms each with their own bathroom. Everything was very clean and very nice! After resting up for a bit we had to walk the 40 minutes back into town to get dinner. Everything seemed to be closed even though it was a Friday night. We decided the hoppin' beach town isn't so hoppin' in January. After searching for some kind of reasonably priced restaurant we came upon TacoMex. A small mexican food restaurant in an alley that was really fun! That was my first mexican food meal since I've been home. It was so good! They had tons of spicy salsas and great fajitas. I definitely enjoyed having some spicy food! After dinner we went to the beach to hang out for awhile. There was a great view of a lighthouse (which reminded me of my trip back from Alaska where we stopped at every light house down the west coast of the United States :) ). We returned to our hostel at about 11:30pm and were absolutely exhausted!
The next morning we had breakfast at our hostel that was very good. We checked out and headed back into town to shop and hang out on the beach. The weather was back to normal with cloudy skies and light sprinkles all day long. We enjoyed the beach, watching surfers and shopping though! We decided we needed to make up for having mexican food in France by having crepes for breakfast. We found a cafe near the beach and enjoyed delicious fruit crepes!!! After lunch we spent a lot of the afternoon reading in a cafe and talking. We were definitely thrown off by the language barrier again because we only know about four words in french. I ready all about Switzerland from my Lonely Planet book and got really excited about starting trip research!! :) We caught our bus at 6:45 that evening and drove back to San Sebastian. I, of course, slept the entire way back to San Sebastian. But it was a great weekend get-a-way and really fun!!
Today I enjoyed church at Evangelica Iglesia again! We stayed for lunch after the service and were able to meet a lot of nice locals. They are mostly from Latin America and have moved to Spain. Since they are wanting to learn english they spoke in only English and Maria, Jill and I spoke in only Spanish! It was great to meet some more girls and work on my Spanish with them! They were very nice and patient with us!!
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