This time I decided to get to know more of Almeria instead of traveling to another city and spending a lot of money. Well.. I did spend a good amount of money, but anyways...
On Saturday around lunch time, Alice, Aisha and I set out to get the bus to Roquetas de Mar, which is the town right beside Almeria city. We went there to go to the mall and more specifically a magical lang called Primark. Apparently this store is something they have in Ireland, but the US has not discovered it yet. Anyways, its got some good stuff for really great prices. So we took two buses there and arrived in about an hour or so.
After going crazy and maybe buying a little too much, we grabbed a lunch from Pans and Company (which is like a really good fast food sandwich place) and then we went to wait for the bus back into Almeria. We caught the bus and arrived at the station in Almeria soon after and then took the 6 o'clock bus back home. Thankfully all of our transportation worked out perfectly.
Later on we went to one of our favorite places call Arevacos (even though we are always the only ones there) and had some tapas and drinks.
The next day we lounged around and watched the Grinch. (Everything is closed on Sundays, so you can't really do much unfortunately.)
On Monday we went back into town to see the Moorish Castle in Almeria called the Alcazaba. It was really cool to visit, but it was also a super hot day so we were getting so sweaty. After that we went by the big Cathedral in Almeria and then stopped for a small lunch/ snack. (I got a simple grilled ham and cheese sandwich, and it was EXACTLY what I needed.)
Then we walked along the Rambla looking at the Christmas market that has been set up and we went into Tiger (another amazing store with cute quirky gifts that America needs to get, but it is also really dangerous because you end up buying a lot of things you don't need).
Then we went ICE SKATING! Yep, you read correctly, ice skating in Almeria when it was roughly 70 degrees outside. And, as it turns out, the place is owned by one of the parents of a kid we work with at the school so she gave us 25 extra minutes of skating for free! It was so fun, even though the whole time was was hiding from the ice rink monitor because I snuck in without gloves and apparently thats a requirement here.
Then we went to the bus station and headed home!
This morning (Tuesday) I took the first bus into Almeria and met up with a girl that I met on couch surfing who wanted to practice English with me. She was super nice and we spent a good part of the day together drinking coffee and walking by the beach and talking. Hopefully we will get to hangout more in the future, she invited me to got hiking with her hiking group sometime which is awesome because I'm going through withdrawal. So yeah, I think I made my first friend outside of school in Spain!
Sorry, I wanted to put more photos in this post, but my computer is being silly.
The end. School is tomorrow....
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