It's already been a week.

I can't believe it's already been a full week that I've been in Granada. Time flies. I'm horrible at updating this thing. I'm always so busy with everything else I'm usually too tired to even turn on my computer.

So Friday night was a lot of fun! The clubs here are SO much nicer (and so are the views and the boys). Apparently people here don't go out until about 2 am, and apparently none of the Americans from school got the message. We all showed up to the club at like 11:30. It was still a blast because girls got free drinks! I was nervous that I wasn't going to know anyone, but I knew like half the people there! Practically all of my class went out that night.

The club we went to played a lot of throwbacks. I loved it! Also, the Spaniards here can dance very well, it's not like what you'd find in Greenville with all the "grinding". Late night the club has strobe lights, colored lights, smoke, and a crazy sound system. I didn't go to bed until like 4am. It was a fun night.

My group and I wanted to go to the beach on Saturday but we slept in reallly late. Then a bunch of the girls went out shopping after lunch. I bought the cutest clothes! Spain, however, has some weird styles but I guess I'll fit in now (aka not look so American). Saturday night I stayed home and Paco (my host father) taught me how to play a Spanish card game. Apparently on Saturdays Josefina (my host mom) brings her mom, who is VERY VERY OLD, for lunch and to stay for the day. The entire time I was in the living room and eating lunch she just stared at me. Just stared. Then she would look at one of my parents and say something, then look back at me. She is a weird little woman.

Sunday some girls from the group and a new girl I've met in class, Nicole, went to a beach about 2 hours away from Granada. It's like paradise. The water was so blue and there was mountains and caves and palm trees in the backdrop. The sand here isn't like what you would find in NC. It's more like little tiny rocks, which is good because you don't get sand everywhere or in your stuff. Something else you wouldn't find in NC, that you definitely would here is that ALL THE BEACHES ARE TOPLESS. Yes, topless. And yes, I saw many boobies yesterday.

Going to the beach made me realize once again how small the world is because we all ran into some people we know! How random is it that I would be in Spain, at a beach 2 hours away, and run into some people from my class? We spent ALL DAY at the beach so when I got home last night I was exhausted, but I got a nice tan ;)

I seriously need to figure out the bus schedule here because I was walking home from class and it started to rain cats and dogs. I had no umbrella and it's a 35 minute walk.......not fun. I also need to start on my homework.