Visitors!

Last weekend was the much-anticipated ND-paid excursion to Granada, which is a beautiful old city in Andalucia (southern Spain) with lots of interesting toques musulmanes, probs because it was the last Muslim stronghold in Spain, and for all those interested, fell to the Christians in 1492, año de Colón. OK I am done being a nerd, but that trip was fantastic. We visited first the mosque-turned-cathedral in Cordoba and then toured the Alhambra on Saturday, the night after my friend's 21st birthday celebration, which was real fun, needless to say. On Sunday a few friends and I, after checking out of the hotel, went and enjoyed some authentic delish tea at an arabic tea house, then continued with our cultural delving by shopping around at this cool eastern market, where I bought Jani some herbal tea.

My friends Tracy and Alex (who studied here last semester) came this weekend to visit for their spring break. Oh. my. God. I was so excited to see them on Sunday I almost cried. We chatted about life updates and reminisced about last semester. Alex lived with my host family last semester so they stayed here the first three nights they were here. Jani of course has been so completely welcoming and hospitable, insisting on feeding everyone her ridiculously tasty Puerto Rican-Spanish cuisine. Needless to say have been going out every night since they got here (or since Wednesday more like) so I guess it really does not really surprise me that I woke up this morning with a fever. 

I have not had a fever in like 58 years and I have always prided myself on the fact that I have the immune system of a man. My host mom said it maybe is because I have been wearing flip flops. I cannot help it, though. The weather here is so gorgeous it is impossible not to treat it as spring and dress accordingly. My head feels like it is going to explode and this makes me miss home of course, because being sick and away from home is the pits. I just want to get better before this weekend in Mallorca, where I will lay out whether or not it is 60 degrees, like they are predicting.