- Valencia.
It was stated in one of those guide books that Valencia has 360 days of sunshine per year...we must have been one of those lucky 5 days to get rain. This whole trip we have not had the best weather, or at least what we were expecting. The weather god knew that the UIC Arch kids were going to spain and wanted to try his best at making it a bad time for us...thus far tho, it is not bad. Yesterday we went to Calatrava world is what I like to call it. There are 3 large Calatrava structures in one park area along with his structure design for a bridge and for a drive. The opera house is still under construction, therfore I did not take too many pictures of it. The l'hemisperic, which is a planetarium, was amazing, yet its eye was not open (to understand what i mean go to www.calatrava.net). Along with Calatrava was a park designed by Felix Candela, which I had no clue existed. The park was an oceanarium, it was 17 euro to go in, so I just stood outside the park and sketched the buildings by a fence. If you look up a map up Valencia you will see that in the middle of the city is something that looks like a river bed, yet it is green. Yes, this is a park. I think that a river or canal may have dried up and in its place, on a level lower than the city, is now a park. It is interesting in that is is very elongated and it has a series of many smaller parks within itself. Today I also went to the Mediteranean Sea...it was my first time. I thought about swimming to Ibitza...going there was part of our origional voyage, yet because it was so expensive and a 3 hour boat ride there and 9 hours to Barcelona...it had to be weeded out.
Last night a few of the large group went out to a bar that is right down the street. They had a special of 10 tequila shots for 10 euro...we took advantage of this special 3 times. Therefore I had 5 shots...do not worry, the shots were half tequila and then half lime juice. So in actuality, I only had 2.5 shots spread over a longer period.
I have these shoes that I bought from the states before I came. They suck. My feet are in so much pain right now, I do not know how to explain this pain but it is killing me. I do not have blisters, but it is as if my feet are overly dry and over used. Tomarrow we are taking a train for 3 hours to Barcelona so I will be able to rest then, and if I need more time to rest I might just take it easy all day in Barcelona. Maybe only go to see things that are near our hostel.
Things shannon needs to work on:
- spanish, although my french is coming almost second nature to responses, it is not too helpful in Spain and the people stare at me when I say oui instead of si
- fllirting with the guys, any guys....im going broke buying myself drinks, I need to use what god gave me to my advantage
- sweet talking to the security guards...those damn ropes and gates stop my from seeing some of the worlds best architecture...and what is this no pictures? why dont you just ask clatrava if he is opposed to letting a young architecture student take pictures...yeah thats right.
- inventing amazing shoes that have springs on them...therefore there would be no impact onto the soles of my feet. note to self: do not buy kangaroos or anyother shoe with an artsy sole again.
shandar | 5:45 PM
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