Avila and Salamanca

Well Thursday night before we left for Salamanca, it was an eventful night as usual. Lissy’s birthday dinner was fun with all the girls, and then the party continued at Joy. Mia was holding my phone for me, when she we realized when we were leaving the club, that she didn’t have it anymore… just my luck. I never thought I would relate to Lady Gaga’s Just Dance “Where are my keys? I lost my phone!” so well. Anyways, the next morning Kira’s alarm didn’t go off, and I didn’t have a phone to set an alarm. We woke up at 10 a.m. when we were supposed to be leaving from Moncloa Metro station at 10 with our group- fantastic! Long story short: Kira woke to her phone ringing from some guy we know, and lost in language translation, she THOUGHT he said he found my phone. Even though we were already running late, we waited to meet this guy for my phone, got there, he didn’t have it, jumped in the taxi to Moncloa, and arrived 40 minutes late to an angry bus of ISA students =)
On our way to Salamanca, we stopped in a small town called Avila. There we spent about four hours in Avila Castle "Muralla" = "The city wall," Catedral de Avila, and had some free time for lunch. We arrived in Salamanca at around 5 p.m. to our 4* hotel that was soo cute! We walked around the city, went to the grocery store to buy snacks and wine, went back to the hotel, got ready, drank lots of wine, went out to eat pizza (extremely entertaining hahaha) and headed out to a few bars and clubs. After having about 2 and half hours of sleep the night before, we were tired and finally went back to the hotel. Next day we woke up, ate breakfast, toured Plaza Mayor, Las Catedrals (Vieja y Nueva), Casa de las Conchas (House of Conchshells), and then had free time. The girls and I decided to go shopping, of course. Afterwards we went back to the hotel, and I took a bubble bath for the first time I’ve been in Spain (it even had jets- YAY). It was the best 2 hours ever =) Then we got ready, went out to dinner with everyone and got Chinese food, and then our eventful night began. In all, we went to about 3 bars, met a 17-year-old onnn something lol, 1 chupiteria, and ended at a really fun club! The next morning, we ate breakfast and toured University of Salamanca, the oldest university of Spain, and now a museum. It was founded in 1218, and has been acknowledged as 1 of the 4 greatest universities in the world (2nd to Oxford). We then went to the Modern House “Espacios Verdes,” filled with stained glass and beautiful statues/decorations inspired by Gaudi. The tour ended in a really cute garden, “Jardin de la Merced,” that overlooked the city. Afterwards, we ate lunch in a little pub, and I had Sopa de Castellana (famous soup in Salamanca) it was reaaaally good. Finally we headed back to Madrid, and arrived home at about 6 p.m.


Today and tomorrow are devoted to catching up on sleep, and getting everything ready for ROME Wednesday morning!!!! =D