Valencia

After Barcelona, I went to Valencia for a week. I absolutely loved Valencia. The hostel was great and even though I was in a 10 person mixed dorm, I had the best room. It was full of Italian guys who cooked for us all multiple nights ;) and I became good friends with a girl from Cadiz, España so I got to practice my Spanish a lot. It became difficult at times to communicate with everyone becasue the languages spooken would change from English, to Spanish, to Italian. But we all managed, though I dare say I was definitely frustrated with the language barrier at times.
I took the week a little easy. When I was in Barcelona, I did the major tourist attractions. I spent a lot of money and was go-go-go all the time. But in Valencia I spent more time hanging out with people in the hostel and less time spending money on museums. That weekend was actually the birthday of Valencia (okay technically it was to celebrate when the Christians kicked out the Muslims and took over the city but "birthday" sounds better) and there was a lot going on all weekend. The fireworks show was THE BEST I have ever seen by far!!! It was crazy huge and it lasted forever! It was fantastic. I thought nothing could beet Disneyland fireworks, but I was mistaken, sorry Disney. After the fireworks show we went out and people in Spain are crazy because people didn´t start coming to the clubs until 4am. Most places are open till 7am, I definitely couldn´t stay up that late... There was also a parade which was pretty cool seeing all the old costumes and everything. This too went on forever.
One of the most amazing things in Valencia is the architecture of the Arts and Science Museum. It was fantastic. One of the girls in my room had extra tickets to see the inside of the Opera house, which was also pretty cool.
I arrived in Sevilla last night. The train was supposed to take 8 hours from Valencia but there was a mechanical problem and we sat in the middle of nowhere for 4 hours! I didn´t get to my hostel until 1am last night. But they gave us free food on the train and our money back for the ticket. So now I can go to one more place in Spain before I leave.
Tomorrow I´m going to Castilblanco de los Arroyos which is where the farm is that I will work on. The plan is to wwoof for two weeks and in return I will get a free bed and food. I can´t wait for the experience and I really hope I can improve my Spanish while I´m there. I most likely won´t have internet access so until then, ¡adios!