El Fin

I´m leaving Spain tomorrow and I am really sad...but don´t worry I cannot wait to see everyone at home. I miss you all soooo much. So I´ll tell you a little bit about my last two weeks in Segovia. Hopefully when I get home, I can also put some pictures on here too, and make it a little more interesting!

Last week was kind of busy with school, we had a test and we also had to start preparing for our exams which were this week. But we still tried to fit everything in! Wednesday, we went to La Granja...it is a little city, about 15 minutes away from Segovia where there is a Royal Palace and a Real Fabrica (Royal Factory). It is a glass factory, and my señora, Lola, works in the library there. Some other girls in the KIIS group had visited earlier and said it was a cool place to visit. We decided to plan a little day trip there.

Last Wednesday was one of the three days of the year that the they turn on the fountains in the palace garden, so we really wanted to see that. After class, we took the bus to La Granja. Lola met us there and showed us around the glass factory. It was so cool, we even got to watch them make a wine glass right in front of us! After that we ate some lunch and toured the palace...which was beautiful.

Around 5:30, it was time for the fountains to turn on. The gardens were full of people, and I did not really know what to expect. We started at one end of the garden and made our way to 7 fountains. They turn on each fountain for a while and then everyone there runs to the next one for it to turn on. They are gorgeous fountains and I have never seen any fountains so big...the Goose Girl fountain in Covington is nothing compared to these haha! ;) Some of them even shoot off so much water that people get wet. It was crazy, but fun. And we had a great day with Lola...all the other girls who came with us were so jealous of our awesome señora!

Thursday, we went on our last excursion with the group. We went to two nearby small towns...Coca and Pedraza. In Coca, we visited a castle that was built in the 11th century, I think (???) Anyway, it´s really old :). It was pretty cool, but we had more fun just finding all kinds of nooks and crannies to take funny pictures in! Then we headed to Pedraza. It was a pretty sleepy little town, but it was beautiful and almost stuck in another time. We visited an old jail there.

So those were the highlights of last week. Saturday we went to the pool, and Sunday we went to an old monastary for mass. And other than that, we have just been trying to enjoy Segovia. I have been trying to find places to sit outside and study, and we try to meet every night at least to have a glass of wine in the Plaza. Everyone is both excited and sad to be coming home and leaving Segovia. I´m going to miss it here :( Can´t wait to see you all tomorrow! ¡Hasta mañana!