Wednesday: Cursed in Spain

Today we went to Abadía de Sacromonte which was a church, a school, and something else.

 On the way there we crammed into a bus and I sat on Jacey's lap. And then Claire was standing close to me, and it was getting hot so it became a sweaty thigh fest.  I looked out the window and there was this kid in a blue shirt staring at me. I seriously looked away like 4 or 5 times, only to turn around and see him still staring. Naturally, I decided to wave. His response was a raise of the eyebrows. Jacey and I laughed. It was taking awhile for the bus to get a move on, but once we slowly started pulling away, I waved goodbye and the kid gave me a head nod and started smiling and laughing. Great moment, I made a new friend without having to open my mouth. Skill! 

 The bus didn't drop us off exactly at Abadía because it had to take a different route to get down and it can't go backwards down the hill and yeah.  The view from that point was kind of cool though. 

Selfie with Jacey:

We walked a little ways to the front and had a little downtime before our tour started. The vending machine wasn't working except for Joe. I don't know what I did but I got it to work though so I felt proud. The water was so refreshing though. Inside the building, you're not allowed to take pictures so I don't have a lot. Only of the church.  Here's a couple of pictures from the tour though:

About the gypsy curse... We were walking down the path; very steep and windy. All of a sudden we get to this house that has blue plates sticking out of it. A bunch of us took out our cameras and started snapping some pics. Then we continued with our walk down to the Albaycin and to plaza nueva. Tommy and Jen wanted to go to the teteria we went to the first time and I agreed to join them.

 We sat down inside and got a couple menus and ordered. We decided in the same read we had the first time we came, tommy and I got a chocolate crepe with Nutella and tommy and Allison got a hookah. It wasn't until later that tommy brought up the gypsy house and I freaked out. He said  he was the only one who payed, the thing was empty and until he put in 2 euros. I decided to ask Mercedes (my señora) about the gypsies and superstitions in Spain. 

 The guy who sang to us last time came over and I was talking to him in French. I asked him how long he's been on Spain and he's been here 28 years. He told me was in France over the weekend to enroll his niece in a university  in Lyons. I asked what brought him to Spain and he said: "to take back the Alhambra." I started laughing really hard cause it was hilarious. It automatically reminded me of my dad and his sense of humor.  Before I left, my dad made the first joke about black people I've ever heard. It was something about walking at night in the dark and bumping into your black friend and saying something like "I didn't see you, you weren't smiling and your eyes were closed." The context of the joke and my dads accent made it a priceless moment. 

 The guy then told me that I should come back and go to the restaurant some time. He brought me a menu and I before opening it I asked if they had couscous. And he said of course and showed it to me on the menu. He gave me a little card of the restaurant too so I wouldn't forget. I absolutely plan on goings back. I feel at home with all the jokes and familiar smells and the taste of the food is going to be the cherry on top of it all. He asked what my name is and I said it like they do in Berber. And he recognized it and said the next part in Arabic "Eeh?? You're tamazight?" And I said yeah. He told me he's Maghreb and I said I'm Kabyle. He told me that I had to come back then. He had to go and left but we did la bise and said bye. (La bise = besos, in French)

 We left soon after and I got home with an hour left before I had to leave to hang out with Jorge and Andrés.

We met up at Los Italianos but they hadn't eaten dinner yet so we went to La Bellla y La Bestia which is a bar that has really good tapas. It was my first time there but I had already heard about it from Sarra and Bru and Antonio years before. We just talked and made jokes and that it was it. It was chill, different from the usual bar and discoteca scene. 

La Bella y La Bestia is right next to Granada10 which is the ONLY discoteca my sister ever talked about. It was opening night, and since it was a Wednesday, means it was ladies night. There was a long line to get in. Now that it's finally open though I want to go see how it is inside.

 Jorge, Andrés, and I payed and left. They asked why I don't bring my friends when we hang out and that night Jacey was going to come but she had to work on a project. Besides they're my friends that I made on my own, hahaha. I'm not sharing with people I don't like. Kidding! We split ways since they both wanted to get back to studying or sleeping to study in the morning.

The end!