Sevilla II

I think Barcelona was necessary to further highlight how awesome Sevilla is. Not that the former city wasn´t lovely and filled with... nice architecture, and stuff and things, but the experience we´re having in Sevilla is spectacular, primarily due to staying at a much better hostel. We went on a tapas tour on Thursday of local resturants which was really cool to say nothing of delicious and we met some great people, most notably Bastian and Sophie (respectively from Germany and north England but both currently working in Norfolk) whom we then ¨toured¨ with all of yesterday, if by toured you mean followed Natalie Bell´s meandering around the city which in this instance I do. We also met Ivy from China and a whole gaggle of American students studying in Switzerland, it´s very neat.

Last night we did the pub crawl that got rave reviews from some of the other CAPA students. I suppose it was authentic in the sense that the three bars we went to were loud, crowded, and smokey, but the club the tour finished at was playing exclusively bizarrely static-y ´50s music by which I could not abide, and it was pouring rain, so we took a taxi home.

Today the rain continues so I don´t know what all we´ll get up to. I will have reflections on things later, mostly pertaining to the dismally linear life plans Americans foster and how they do not include years for travel and backpacking and biking from Spain to Scotland and such but rather focus on college and grad school and career advancement and settling, and my feelings on the matter, which must wait until later mainly because I´ve not firmly decided them.