Salamanca

23 February 2010: Well, this will be an entry more of pictures than words, namely because I've been extremely busy and am really tired. But I'm posting because my darling Susan says that I have to :) First of all, I need to share a funny story. I looked up the weather in Salamanca on Thursday. The weekend forecast called for sunny skies and 77 degrees (25C). I was SO EXCITED. I packed flip flops and a t-shirt and I was talking to Fernanda, and we were both just SO EXCITED! So, Saturday morning at about 6:40, Fernanda tells me that something’s wrong. The weather is only going to be 7C (40ish F). So, I double checked, and my heart plummeted. Yeah, the weekend was going to be nice and sunny in Salamanca, MEXICO, but in Salamanca, Spain, it was cold and it rained. Luckily I had time to swap the flip flops for wool socks before we left. Oh well!!

So we went to Salamanca with a group from the school, but my 5 friends and I were the only exchange students. Everyone else was either really old (70%) or a Spanish student from the university (20%). By the way, I have no idea how all the old people came to be on the university trip, maybe it was a community trip or something. Sometimes the details here escape me...

Anyway, we saw many beautiful cathedrals, and visited the University of Salamanca, which was started in the year 1218 or so. I even bought a sweatshirt to prove my devotion to the trip to Salamanca. Or maybe I was just THAT COLD.

It was a lot of fun! Here are some pictures to prove it:







Mary holding Jesus inside the cathedral.



Only a part of the outside of it, at night. Beautiful!



Spanish bachelor party! Seriously. (We saw the bridal party in a cafe later and asked)
Just click on it to make it bigger, I don't know why it doesn't show up in the normal size?



Me standing on a famous, really old bridge.



The center of the old town. Gorgeous when the lights come on at dusk :)