Soooo this morning in my Cine class we watched a movie called Juana La Loca. It is about the daughter of Queen Isabella and basically she is crazy. Typical spanish movie, very intense but I like it. I feel like I'm going to be so knowledgeable about all the past kings/queens of Spain! A few of us then made the trek to the 'correos' aka post office to send off a few postcards/letters to various people. We walked around a bit and ran into a group of elderly women dancing which was really fun to watch! Segovia is a whole different place on the weekends/friday because so many tourists come. The streets were full of people! At lunch Puri and I talked about the place that we are going to tomorrow, La Escorial and El Valle de los Caidos. Apparently it is where Franco is buried. She told me about our busy weekend plans, haha she always books up my weekends when we are here! After hearing a bit about this place from her, I went to go to art class to learn even more about it. On my way to class it was blowing icy snow which was not appreciated. Nope. It was awful. It was blowing into my face and was actually painful! But once in class we learned more about those places and it seems very interesting. Along with Valle de los Caidos having the grave of Franco, it also has a mass grave of thousands of people that Franco killed. It caused some tensions, I wonder why. But apparently Benedictine monks care for the grave of Franco/are in charge of the area. They love Franco and think he was the best. It makes me sad to be associated with people like that. I understand that Franco fought for the Catholic church but he killed a lot of people, exiled jews, sent people to concentration camps, killed innocent women and children, and lots of other terrible things. People today go to his grave and do the whole Hitler salute thing. I think that would be hard if we see that tomorrow. I can't imagine people think he was good. But the funny thing is that a few years ago Gladys went off on the Abbot there about how she couldn't believe that a Benedictine would support such a horrible man and such. She had to get escorted out! She is such a feisty woman and fights for what she believes in. I think it's hard because we associate ourselves with the Benedictines. I feel like tomorrow is going to be a long, cold, and emotionally tiring day. After learning about our visit for tomorrow, I had my weekly lovely chat with Luke. Always wonderful. As I was heading out from school I checked in our classroom to find some people to walk home with and ended up watching two episodes of the New Girl with a few girls. It was really fun! Now I am going to do dinner, maybe some hw (if I'm feeling it) and then go to bed. Easy night before a big weekend and then the carnival festivities begin!
Words:
Aseos- bathrooms
Aula- classroom
Luego (without hasta)- shortened see you later
Gruesa- large, thick, bulky, gross
Songs: Whoops haven't posted my fav songs in a while... I'm on song 524/1725. Crusin'
Say Anything- Ahhh... Men
Cake- Sheep go to heaven
The All-American Rejects- Damn Girl
Never Shout Never- Trouble
Cartel- If I were to write this song
Big Chocolate Ft. Weerd Science- Sound of my voice
Sufjan Stevens- Marching Band
The Wonder Years- Hoodie Weather
Coldplay- Swallowed in the Sea
Stereos- Throw ya hands up
Cake- Arco Arena
Jeffree Star- Miss Boombox
Bright Eyes- Vonnegut
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