Segundo Cuatrimestre

I still don't even have all of my grades from last semester, but the new semester is well underway. I think I have a workable schedule. Ani has a rule that there can only be 3 Georgetown students in a class, which luckily has turned into 4. I've never been so unhappy to see other Georgetown students in my life. I was not going to cede my classes. There are only so many interesting classes in Ciencias Políticas, and a large number of us are government majors or in the SFS. Here's what I've got:

Lunes-Martes
8:30-10 Pintura Española en el Museo del Prado
17-18:30 Ideologías Políticas en la España del s. XX y la Idea de Europa
18:30-20 Seguridad y Cooperación en Relaciones Internacionales
20-21:30 Relaciones Internacionales de Asia-Pacífico

Miércoles
10-13 Literatura y Política
17-19 Tutoria Museo del Prado

I really really didn't want to have another late class, but it looks like it's my most feasible option. The professor has another section of the same class at 13 h that I could attend, but I hate Somosaguas so I like to do it all in one golpe. Apparently we over-hyped how bad Somosaguas was to the new Georgetown people. It is pretty bad though. I was starting to think that the prison business was just a rumor, but Monday one of my professors said that it really was a women's prison.

I'm not sure about the lit class, but I think I'm going to do it anyway because I need it for my schedule and it might count for the English major. Let's just say I couldn't follow him yesterday, and I don't think it was the language barrier. He didn't give us a syllabus or anything so I'm very unclear about how the class is going to be evaluated, but we are reading Hamlet (in English) and a 900 page beast of a novel that he wrote.

The trip to Extremadura was nice, although I was very tired for most of it. Our 8 am departure turned into more like 8:35 so we could wait for people. Three still missed the bus. We had to make an emergency pit stop early into the bus ride, and our bus driver Santiago removed his shirt for the occasion. Ayyyy.

Our first stop was Mérida, where we saw an old Roman theatre and ampitheatre. In the afternoon we went to the Roman Art Museum and the Alcazaba where we saw an aljibe!

We then made our way to Cáceres, the capital, stopping at the Aqueducto de Milagros. We walked around the old town part of Cáceres before having a really long and late dinner.

I got no sleep that night through no fault of my own.

Sunday we went to the Archeology (sp??? that doesn't look right...) Museum where we saw another aljibe! There were also a lot of cigüeñas (storks).

From there we made our way to Trujillo, a small town that gained fame as the hometown of Pizarro, el conquistador. There was a very cool fortress on top of a hill. Also, another aljibe!

Next weekend is Tangier with Allison. We are going to Italy for 8 days for Semana Santa, then flying back to Madrid on Good Friday (ridiculously expensive to stay in Italy for the rest of the weekend).

My pictures uploaded backwards. You would think I would have figured this out by now, but no.

In Trujillo:
Cigüeñas en Cáceres:
Antiquity meets modernity in Mérida:

More old things in Mérida: