Blogs from Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain, Europe - page 40

With our Spanish class we made an exchange with a class from Valencia! It was quite nice! :-)... read more

Hello Reader. Wow, it certainly has been a while, has it not? It has been almost six months since my last posting. I could tell you that nothing of any real interest has happened since then, but that would make me a reasonless liar... and I'm not one for lying. I shall pick up where I left off, but there are a few things you should know. Firstly, I have done everything you can possibly imagine in the past five and a half months, barring a trip to the moon and eating a live animal. I have been places and met people that one might only read about in fantastical travel blogs (?!?). Secondly, I intend to report, as I have done in the past, on these amazing events and individuals in as much detail and ... read more

Hello Reader. That Sunday, I cleaned up my room and left the windows open to try to get the guy smell out for Casey and Jackie who were to arrive around six pm or so that evening. My thoughts were elsewhere while I was hard at work in New Orleans that afternoon. I haven't seen anyone I know from the states in almost six months. Besides the blog, I only keep in touch with a couple people from home. I didn't know what to expect when I met the girls. I was getting nervous when they hadn't arrived by seven-thirty, but they walked in around eight and we exchanged big hugs. Jorge bought them their first drinks and asked them to send him their license plates when they got home. Casey took his business card. My ... read more

fallas is a festival from the 15th to the 19th of march. the festival is apparently semi-religious, dedicated to joseph, the father of Jesus, both carpenters. this tradition dates back to a time when carpenters around valencia would periodically collect all the of the scrap materials from their work, pile it up, and burn it. now they build huge effigies out of wood, styrofoam, and paper machet. the most expensive falla was in excess of 600,000 euros. the themes represented are local and international politicians and celebrities, incredibly un-politically correct and frankly racist themes, and everything inbetween. they all tended to be painted with pastel colors, and often looked like some sort of freakish disneyland characters. every day in the main plaza ajuntamiento, there was a fireworks display at two p.m. called the mascleta. it was ... read more

Carla knew Patch was at the Fallas and had been texting him all night. Somehow we ended up in the same place at the same time. We said it would be stupid to be so close and not say hey to him, so Carla and I went to holla at Patch real quick. Real quick turned into the whole night. We ended up ditching Monica, Claribel and Kate. We had been hanging out with Monica all week and it was time to meet some new people. Yeah, her friends were meeting us, but I already didn’t like them! Hahaha. They got in the way of my food and made me walk all around Valencia. I’m just playing. The people who were with Patch were all from my school and I told myself I’d rather meet people ... read more