So I have been here for almost two and a half weeks now and it feels like home. Its weird to think that the first day I was here I got so lost in this city for about 2 hours, while now I know this place as well as Eugene. Its kind of nice and kind of eerie. Sometimes I forget that I am even in Europe.

Except when I see statues like this and realize that America would never have this cool of a statue. Oviedo and Asturias in general is pretty big on statues and sculptures and art around the city. Hopefully I can feature one a week. Oviedo also features huge pigeons.

This ones stomach was basically dragging on the ground and it had some major trouble getting lift off…but they are well fed here so that is good.

Some other sites I wanted to show y’all were my school, the building I go into, and the marble stairs I walk up everyday. I get a pretty wicked leg work out each day because we walk everywhere. Which I don’t mind much because I love to walk.

School is good and I am learning a lot, but you know, its school and I would rather be doing more traveling. So I decided to make the most of my time. Last Tuesday a bunch of us went to Gijón which is like 20 minutes from Oviedo. It was beautiful.

This past week in Gijón was Semana Negra (the ferris wheel). It is some big celebration over some saint (still am not fluent in Spanish). Some of us went back Saturday night for the last of of the celebration and it was basically the worst time I have had yet. Those of you who know me know that I hate fairs…it was basically a huge dirty, smelly fair with tons of people and it was like 3:00 am because that is when things get started here in Spain so I ended up going home earlier than some, but that is okay…it was an experience.

One of the best things I did this last week was go see Harry Potter! Sure it was dubbed over in Spanish but those of you who have seen know what I am talking about when I say that it was an emotional experience. It was in 3-D imax and there was no way I was missing that.

So one is pre-Potter and the other is in the theater right before the movie started and hopefully you can tell that we are wearing our glasses. Because we don’t speak fluent Spanish we made the mistake of wearing the 3-D glasses for the duration of the film while the only 3-D part was at the very end of the movie. But we are all super cool people so it didn’t matter much. It was definitely amazing and I plan to go to London soon to see the English speaking version.

Well, this weekend I am headed to Bilbao and San Sebastian which I am so excited about I can hardly express. It will be a good pre-birthday weekend. (My birthday is on Monday the 23rd.)

Hope all is well back in the states and comment and let me know how y’all are doing. ¡Vale!

Besos

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