First Day of School

Walking to school this morning, I was super excited to finally get a first day of school picture at college. I'm not sure why I haven't been taking them every year, but oh well!

In front of the door leading to our school. It's a building from the 16th century, with all original doors inside.

Once inside the building, all the classrooms and offices are on these two floors surrounding this little fountain. I didn't take a picture, but above the fountain is just the sky, there's no roof. It's beautiful!

The library.

Other view of the library.

Little computer room. Since the school has wifi, I'm assuming this room won't be used too often.

The bathrooms. Interesting fact: inside the bathrooms hangs a sign saying... "Please do not flush toilet paper or sanitary products." Okay...?

My schedule is going to be amazing. Since I only need 12 credits to graduate, I'll be taking 4 classes. Monday and Wednesday from 9:00-10:30 and 11:00-12:30. Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00-10:30 and 16:30-18:00. School is only a 15 minute walk from my house, so I will be having a lot of free time. One of my classes requires community service to help keep me busy, so I'm excited to see what I can find. I'm actually thinking about the Red Cross. 

Saturday night, my Señora's grandboys came over for the night. It's adorable to hear little kids talk in Spanish. They're such well behaved boys and soooo cute!

My Spanish nephews, Antonio (6 years old) and David (6 years old).

We went to a park with this color-changing water fountain. (They were more excited with me than this picture shows.)

So Granada was the last city that the Catholics took over way back in the 15th century. For that, there are hundreds of monuments located around the city and history along the way. On Sunday, in the blazing hot 42C or 107F weather, we went hiking up part of the mountain to the Alhambra. I won't bore you with history, but if you're curious to learn a little about it, look some information up on google. It's a giant village built up on the side of the mountain, that has been transformed into a tourist attraction. Again, absolutely breathtaking views. All the buildings have the most detailed patterns on the walls, not sure how they were able to build such amazing things thousands of years ago. 

Our lunch break under a tree.

From the highest point overlooking Granada.

Just goofing around in the gardens.

It was a day of glorified history class, rather than a textbook, we had our awesome tour guide (you can see the headphones that allowed us to hear everything our leader was telling us) and breathtaking views. After 6 hours of walking during the hottest part of the day, it's safe to say that I was exhausted.