Tomorrow I have my second finals, so Happy Thanksgiving to me. I have studied all day and some last night so I feel as ready as I am going to get. I haven’t posted lately, big surprise right??? I have been working on writing up on Prague, so maybe next week…Cross your fingers. So two weekends ago we DID end up going four wheeling and it was unbelievable. We were far up in the mountains and it overlooked Granada and then the snow covered Sierra Nevada’s on the other side. It was mostly gravel off road trails and then we got to drive on some roads as well. I got up to 80km/h so roughly 50 mph on a downhill straightaway. They had the governors turned way down so people like Kyle and I wouldn’t break the four wheelers.
Then I skipped class last Friday and got up at 6:40 AM to go snowboarding in the Sierra’s. The mountain that we were on was the highest mountain on the Iberian Peninsula. It was a perfect day in the upper 20’s Fahrenheit and sunny. The trails were mostly groomed but I did end up finding some powder up to 3 feet deep in spots. I also rode a T bar to the very top to the expert part of the mountain and it is merely impossible on a snowboard. At one point I fell and somehow I ended up being drug up the hill backwards and then flipped around and back onto my feet. It was more of a workout getting to the top that riding down. On the way down we found the terrain park and I hit a jump, a couple of rails and a couple of boxes and then another jump near a lift pole. The jump threw me up in the air and turned me perpendicular with the hill, so from 5 feet up I landed right on my face but my sunglasses happened to break my fall….Which resulted in a black eye, so this week it has progressively looked worse. The mountain had several lifts and most of them were speed lifts, so from the very top to bottom, it’s about a 20 to 30 minute ride, so it is by far the biggest place I have ever snowboarded at.
For Thanksgiving I have my finals for this month, then we are going to play a game of AMERICAN FOOTBALL, and then we have a group dinner in the Albaycin. So at least we are doing something fun. Lately in class we have been talk about customs and holidays in our respective countries and it definitely made me jealous that I was not going to be home for a Thanksgiving meal with my family and to watch football the rest of the afternoon.
Friday I am off to London for the weekend and coming back to Granada on Monday around noon, so I will be around to talk on Skype about my trip. Then next week I go to Rome for a long weekend. My time is running out here in Granada/Europe – I am going to miss it a ton, I already can’t wait till I come back. I have my photo website all updated even from this past weekends trip to Sevilla and Cordoba. Each photo on the website is an album that has 50-200 pictures in it, so to see all of my pictures, open the Album…Mom. Sorry I had to just throw that in.
Once again, Happy Thanksgiving, eat lots of turkey and all that good stuff. Also watch some football for me, especially the Cowboys game. Almost three weeks left until I return home, so see you all soon.
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