Malaga - speed blogging

Tengo una cita en diez minutos entonces solo puedo escribir en este tiempo. So... this is going to be a SPEED BLOG (cause i only have 10 minutes, maybe less, before i have to meet with our dear friend Miriam, a spaniard who works at our program and is in charge of all student activities. She is amazing and we all love her a lot! More on that later.)

Malaga - We took the train from Madrid to Malaga. It was a nice ride. Pretty, and we had a table with four seats so we could relax. And play gin. or some game.

We arrived at the train station and tried to find our way to the hotel, which was a little bit farther than the ínformative man at the information booth told us (if any of you are ever in charge of hiring the people to work at information booths make sure they are actually informative, please). Hmm an unecessary paragraph, not a good start to the speed blogging.

Went to the hotel, IES staff was waiting to say hi. They were nice. Met up with some poeple we knew from home/i knew from school. We got there just in time to put our stuff in our room and make it back down to leave with the group for lunch. Since we were already 60 by that time, (translates better in spanish) we obviamente had to split up into different resteraunts. We went with a group of about 12 people (highlights of these people are Brad, Brian Manning from Yale, Rocio Sumillera de Espana). After lunch, walked 5 minutes to the beach. Water was cold. We talked and learned that Brian was pretty cool and that Rocio was pretty good at Spanish. Walked back to hotel.

From hotel we went to the Picasso museum (he was born in Malaga you know). It was interestante. So we went there and saw picassos... I think the art I did as a niño was comprable to the art he did... i guess he just peaked later than me. What a shame.

Some of us went out to a bar. It was fun, met some new people. Bed.

Next day amazing buffet breakfast (call me if you want more details Ken, it was amazing! but no time.. speed blog).

Next thing i remember is lunch... also amazing, kept bringing us food-tapas and alcohol and juice and delicious. Took bus to Granada. Hooray! Sat next to Rocio and Javier (director of IES and teacher of my theatre class). Dropped people off at the gym where they met host families. Miriam took us to the Residencia Carlos V.

And look, we´re in Granada! There ya go. more later. including pictures. Tell your friends, new blog is out!
-Bradley Samuel Ross