Thursday, February 7th, 2008, 6:49 pm (Spain)

I'm creating a flickr.  Its a place where I can put pictures up online for all to see.  As soon as I get that working, I'll post the address.  There's been quite the cry for photos, so I went and took some today.  And, I stole some of the one's that Josh put up online, cause he's camera-happy.  Today was AWESOME.  I didn't have to get to class until 9, so I got to sleep in a little bit.  Our class was only two hours long, and then we had a meeting about our trip to Cadiz this weekend.  I can't wait, its gonna be sick.  I bought my costume last night, I'm gonna be a gladiator.  We meet up around 9:30pm Saturday, and we catch a bus up to Cadiz... it'll take about an hour and a half.  We'll get there at 11, and its supposed to just be out of control wild like Mardi Gras.  At 3am, our bus will leave, and we'll head back here to Seville.  I will then proceed to sleep most of Sunday away, just because I can.

After our meeting, we went on our first mandatory trip.  They make it seem like a bad thing, calling it mandatory as if anyone wouldn't want to go.  Today we visited Italica, Roman ruins pretty close to Seville.  There is a lot of the city that has been recreated so we can see what it would be like, but there are still a lot of original foundations and street paving stones and stuff.  And the amphitheater was all original too, and we got to explore it and stuff.  It was so cool.  The city was only around for a short while, because the earth shifted a lot and it started to fall apart, so everyone abandoned it.  I knew the Roman empire spread real wide across europe, but I didn't realize that they built entire cities down here... whose ruins could still be seen today.  Very cool.  Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, but Rod took some great pictures and he's gonna hook me up with them.  For now, hasta luego, which means until later.