I don´t want to spend a lot of time on my blog now because I have not yet finished with my travels this Easter vacation, but I just wanted to jot down a few things so that you can know where I am and so that I don´t forget where I´ve been!
I got into Sevilla on Monday morning after the night-long bus to Sevilla. I wandered around the city with my huge luggage quite a bit trying to meet up with Jessica Gutierrez before she jumped on a train to Madrid, but to no avail. I eneded up in the internet cafe where I last wrote an entry on my blog.
After that, I found my way to the hostal where I thought I would be staying with some friends, but it turns out, that though they had invited me to come, told me the address and the days they would be there, they had neglected to reserve me a spot. O goodness, and semana santa in Sevilla is jam packed with people so I knew that I wouldn´t have much luck if I looked elsewhere. Luckily, one of my friends from the Colegio was gracious enough to take me in for the night. She´s Aurea and she´s a supernumerary like me!
After I had lunch with my absent-minded friends, I wandered through the city looking for an open church to do my prayer. Amazingly enough, even though there are about 500 million churches in every city in Spain, it´s somewhat of a challenge to find one that´s open if it´s not mass- time (usually 12 or 6 or later). I finally found one in Plaza San Lorenzo, which also happend to be the Church where the paso of the Gran Poder was kept. There was another humongeous line of humanity waiting to go and kiss his hand!
After that I met up with Aurea for mass in a church that was on the street where a paso of our Lady was passing by. There were so many people we could barely push our way through to get to mass on time! Then Aurea´s friend Esperanza and her cousin and another friend Pilar met up with us to see the pasos for the night. Esperanza knew exactly where every paso was passing (no pun intended) and at what time it was passing so we dart around the crowed streets seeing these amazing processions! I will put some pictures up as soon as I can!
The next day, Aurea and I had a delicious desayuno (the Andalucian pistañes are the best I´ve tried yet!) went to mass at 12 (that´s when life really begins in Spain .. hehe just a joke) and then she dropped me off back with my absent-minded friends. I had left my bag in the hostal for the night because it would have been too crazy to try and pick it up with all the people. So I despididod a my absent-minded amigos and headed to a center called Entrepuentes to do my prayer and go to circle. I talked with a friend who I had met in Pamplona in Zudaire at the International dinner named Lolita! It was a funny coincidence to see her again! There was another supernumerary in the circle who was working in Madrid and so they gave me the map of the hotel where I was going to meet Mrs. Clark and of the Basilica of San Miguel´s, which is a church that the priests of Opus Dei take care of because I wanted to go to confession there. That´s an amazing church and I´ll put pictures up of their pasos soon because I was just there again this morning!
After Sevilla, I went to Madrid and met Mrs. Clark and Lauren and we went to Toledo for the day! Then I went to Valladolid to visit Mercedes, my old roomie from Westfield. I will write more about these days because they were great and because I want to show you my pictures. Now I´ve left Valladolid and come back to Madrid to visit Irina! It sounds like she has done even more travelling than I have recently. She just just got back from driving through France, Monaco, and Italy. Today after we had the desayuno, I went into the city by myself for mass and exploring. I like Madrid a lot and it is a very beautiful city. I walked along the Calle Mayor and Calle Alcalá and saw tons of grat edificios. And then at the Plaza Cireles, I caught the 27 bus up Paseo Castellana to find the center where I´m going tonight for circle. That was like taking a tour bus of Madrid (but my only guide was the good bus driver who helped me find 124).
Now I´m back in Gatafe and Irina´s in class. When she gets out will head back to the city, where she wants to show me the Parque of Buen Retiro (I think)! I´ll write about the adventures in between Sevilla and Madrid soon.
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