Our First Whole Day in Sevilla

Our Room

Our second day in Spain and first whole day (May 13) we got a wake up call at 8:30 so we could go downstairs and eat breakfast.  We then packed and waited for them to call us down.  Around 11 they called and got us a taxi and gave the driver the address.  The driver was confused which building we were in so after he dropped us off I asked a woman in front of the building if it was the right one and said no it was across the street so we then went to another one and asked another person if that was the right one and it was.  The door required a key but thankfully there was a cleaning man coming out so we went in and took the small elevator up to the right apartment.  We rang the doorbell and la señora de la casa answered and thankfully knew who we were.  She showed us to our room and Sara unpacked while I watched since I was still bagless.

We rested in our room until lunch and at lunch we had a dish with marinara over rice with a bunch of other sides which was good.  After lunch we rested more until we had to go to our school for a meeting from 5 to 7.  The meeting gave us some tips about where things are and other security-related things.  After the meeting since our bags still were not there we went searching for the mall and after walking the longest way possible and eventually asking for directions we found it.  We went to a store called Pull and Bear and ended up finding stuff to wear the next day.  Then we returned to our apartment and waited for dinner.

Abril

Right before dinner I got a call that our bags finally arrived.  We ate around 10 and then walked to the hotel.  I felt like such a tourist rolling my bag back to our place.  When we got back I unpacked and showered and we met up with a group of people in our program at a club called Abril.  It took us some time to find it and we had to ask some people but we eventually made it around 1am.  The club had a list but apparently they let people in anyways.  When we got to the front one of the bouncers asked me something in spanish and I had no clue what he said.  I looked extremely confused and he ended up just waving us in.  The club was a lot of fun and there was spanish and american music which was cool.  Drinks were really expensive, rum and coke was 7 euro ($10), so we ended up dancing more than drinking.  We ended up getting back at like 4am and I slept until 12:30pm.