La Vida Cordobesa

Before I am reunited with the lovely Jordyn Sims tomorrow (so excited!) and head off on my spring break travels to Italy, I figured I would do one more Cordoba blog post. Last time I wrote, I was looking forward to a lovely Cordoba weekend. Sadly, last weekend, I ended up being sick and spent all of saturday in bed and all of sunday indoors. It was also raining all weekend, which certainly did not facilitate an active weekend. Luckily my time in bed helped me to quickly kick my sickness and I was pretty much better by the time the week began. On Tuesday, my friend Laura and I decided to take advantage of the beautiful spring weather that had returned to Cordoba to take some photos of our everyday sites.  Take a look:

Universidad de Cordoba: Facultad de Filosofia y Letras

This is my school where I have all of my classes:

Standing next to the Facultad and looking down the street, here the the view:

One of the many orange trees that are all over Cordoba:

Horses by the Mezquita: Looks lovely, but can make for some pretty smelly streets occasionally

La Puerta Romana: over the Guadalquivir River

Before my sick weekend, I did manage to have a slightly eventful Friday evening. Friday was our second cooking class of the semester. We got to watch and learn preparation of typical Cordobese dishes and then went to a restaurant across the street where we ate the same meal that had just been prepared. It was delicious. Afterwards I went with a bunch of people up to the Plaza de Tendillas, a very central part of Cordoba to see a parade of Tuna bands. If you remember from my very first post, Tuna bands are formed in the Universities in Spain. This past friday all of the Tunas from the Facultades de Derechos (Law Schools) in Spain (including the same Tuna that performed for us our first night in Salamanca) were in Cordoba. Tons of people were out in the street to watch the Tunas parade and show their pride for their cities. Here is a video of Granada, Sevilla, and Salamanca's Tunas:

After the Tuna parade, Mary and I went to the filmoteca and saw a slightly terrible movie. Then I was back home and in bed since I was indeed beginning to get sick. 

So I think that is all for now. Next time I write I will have been in my third European country: Italy!

Hope all is well with you all. 

Adios