La Vida Sevillana

Class is over and now the fun can really begin!  I just took my final exam for my January Spanish course and now I have to write a paper for it due in March.  All of that will count as one credit and the 4 other classes I take at the University will count as 4 more.  I am so excited to get into real classes with real Spaniards.  I already bought a University of Sevilla t-shirt too.

Tomorrow I will head to London with a girl I've become friends with.  I'll write about that when I get back but I hope to have some real English tea and to go to Stonehenge as well.  It should be interesting to visit the site now since there have been recent findings about 2 miles away of an ancient settlement known as Durrington Walls.  Eight houses have already been escavated from the wooden settlement and I hope to maybe get the chance to see part of history being unearthed!

 The rain has finally subsided a little here.  It was going on a few days and putting everyone in slightly bad moods.  We had to go to a museum in the rain, not a very interesting museum I must say, but going in the rain made even less appealing.  It was called Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares.  We did get to see some of the embroidery women made during the 18th and 19th centuries for their "ajuar" or the clothes/linens they make for the house once they are married.  Apparantly this is what a lot of women spent the majority of their young lives doing, and even hah problems with their eyesight and back, for bending over, peering at a needle all day long.  Needless to say, their work paid off and is on display in all its intricate beauty.  We also got to see a wine bodega, or cellar, where they store barrels and barrels of the stuff.

Short entry but now I must pack, and plan the rest of this trip.  I forget how much work it takes to get around here when I try to do more than walk.  two buses just to the airport, then the tube and cab once we land.  Oy!

 Fun Fact:  the Symbol of Sevilla is No8Do, only the 8 in the actual symbol is more elongated like a twist of rope.  The name comes from the 14th century during the reign of Alfonso the 10th.  The piece of rope is called a madeja and the actual symbol, No-madeja-Do is a slight play on words and literally means "no me ha dejado" or "it has not left me."