It has been over a week since I last wrote in here, so I will try to update you on what I have been up to:

Tuesday last week I went to Oñate, a small town in southern Guipuzkoa (the part of the País Vasco that I am in). The weather was bad but it was nice there. We visited a university and a church, and in the mountains Arantzazu, a convent… you can check out both places on their website: http://www.oinati.org/.

Wednesday I went shopping, I bought some books in Spanish and some clothes at Zara that were on sale. Wednesday night I went to a latin dance class, where we learned the basics of salsa and another dance. It was really fun, and I want to learn how to dance salsa properly sometime.

Thursday I went to a wine tasting at the school. They offered kind of a class on learning which wine goes with what. I still know very little about wine but at least I do know now how to know if a wine goes with a meal.

Friday I didn’t do much, I just got some rest because the weekend was busy:

Saturday I went on an excursion to Navarra with some people from the school. We went for a walk/hike to a waterfall that was really incredible. The lake was a kind of turquoise color. Very pretty. We were going to go to some cave afterwards but it got too late, so we changed our plans and went to Pamplona. We just walked around the Parte Vieja a little and got home around 2300.

Sunday I went to Bilbao with another woman from the school. We first went to the Guggenheim Museum there, but that was a lot nicer from the outside than on the inside. Then we walked to the Parte Vieja, and just walked around for a few hours. We ate at a Chinese restaurant, and took the bus back to Donostia.

Monday I got the program for the Festival de Cine (Int’l Film Festival) which is starting today in San Sebastián. I also enjoyed walking around the Old Part again, since the weather was nice for the first time in a week. I picked out some movies I wanted to see and got tickets for five movies.

Tuesday I decided I wanted to see some more movies so I got tickets for four more movies, heh. Evelina, another student at Lacunza, and I went back to my apartment and cooked lunch together and then we went shopping for a few hours. I got myself some ballerinas at Stradivarius.

Yesterday was really nice and warm (34ºC/93ºF), and the sky was completely blue, so after I had lunch with Evelina at a Chinese restaurant, I went to the Monte Igeldo, and took the cable car up to the top. The view from there is just incredible!! The ocean is so blue and the bay of La Concha is sooo beautiful from above! Then I walked to the end of Ondarreta beach at the foot of Monte Igeldo, there are holes in the ground there and during a storm, water comes up like a fountain. Yesterday was mostly quiet so it was just the wind. I watched the surfers for a while, and walked back to the apartment. I was so tired so I just stayed home for the rest of the evening, and went to bed early.

Today I want to check out the naval museum and the aquarium but if the weather stays nice I might just stay outside, and not go to both of the places. Tonight I am going out again to Molly Malone’s; since it is Thursday, pretty much everyone of the school goes will be there.

The film festival is starting today, but I do not have any movies for today. Here is a list of the movies I am going to watch:

09/22: Sleeping Dogs Lie
09/24: El Custodio
09/24: The Tiger’s Tail
09/25: Click
09/25: Children of Men
09/26: Morirse en Domingo
09/27: World Trade Center
09/28: Little Miss Sunshine
09/28: Las Vidas de Celia

There were a few more movies I was interested in but I couldn’t get tickets for all of them, and I didn’t want an overkill of movies. Nine movies in seven days is already a lot.

By the way, my class is going well. I have been in the same level class since I came here, and all the grammar was a revision to me. That was good because I needed the revision, but now we have revised everything that was important to me, so on Monday I am switching to a class one level up. I do want to learn something new, or get a revision of the more complex grammar.

Well, I am going to go now, I want to have lunch and then go to the port (where the naval museum and the aquarium are). If there is actually a storm I think I will try to go to the Zurriola beach to watch the waves or to Ondarreta for those holes in the ground.

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