It's been a good week!
School is pretty amazing! I seriously have been learning so much! My mind was blown when i learned this so let me possibly blow your mind too.
During the roman empire we had roman numerals (I, IX, IV, etc...) Roman numerals dont have a number for 0.. the Arabic people introduced the arabic number system which includes a 0 and is the number system we use today.
You know how they determined the value of the numbers? by how many angles they had! COOL, huh? as you can see... 1 has 1 angle. 9 has 9 angles, and 0 has 0 angles. COOOOOL!
So there are some beautiful parks here in Oviedo. I have a lot more time on my hands than I used to. I don't know where everything is and I don't have a ton of responsibilites which is a concept I'm not very used to. It's very different from my go, go, go lifestyle. But I took a few hours to go sit at the park next to a beautiful fountain and reflect and write in my journal. It was so great!
El Parque de San Francisco
Yesterday was my first Espicha. Thats basically just a big party where you eat a lot of food and drink cidra (more like water for me, but that was pretty tasty too!)
Um. you can sit in really cool barrels. yes please!
And there was a little dancing too. It was quite the night!
Saturday we started off the day taking a bus ride to Santillana del Mar.
Ok let me help you out with some Spain Geography a little bit. I'm right above the A in Oviedo. we went to the east a little by Santander. It's by the coast and it's beautiful!!
We started off in Santillana del Mar. It's an old medieval town. SO cute! cobblestone road and cute little shops. This weekend happened to be the international puppet festival. We only had one hour or so there so we didn't actually see any puppet shows, but that would've been sweet, i'm sure.
However, Some street performers performed the most beautiful music. We all had to just stop take a moment and listen and take in the moment.
AND!! You know it's going to be a great place if the chocolate menu looks like that!!
Oh my! I bought some for my suitcase. If it doesn't make it home.. sorry, not sorry :)
We stopped at Comillas. We ate and we visted the summer villa of King Alfonso XIX.
It's a beautiful place!! Look at that stained glass!
It also had "El Capricho" a beautiful mansion built by Gaudi. We weren't able to go in, but it was still a beautiful place! and this amazing church that was right next to it. Guys! this place is INCREDIBLE!
Pictures don't really do it much justice. You really just have to come see it for yourself :)
Happy Sunday!! have an incredible week!! :)
Happy Sunday!! have an incredible week!! :)
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