Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Casa de Cervantas

My first thunder storm in Spain! After a night out at La Media Pinta (the bars here close a 3:00am!) and sleeping until just before noon we began to here rumbles and the sky opened up! I am usually not a fan of thunderstorms to say the least but after confirming with my host mom it would lower the temperature I could not have been more excited! It has been sunny and 90 here and I have yet to find a place with air conditioning or even more than one fan!
After the thunderstorm Rosie and I figured we should explore this wonderful city we now call home! We went to La Casa de Cervantes, which is a museum showing the house where Cervantes lived and wrote Don Quijote. It is extremely small but it is free and a must see when visiting Alcalá. They had tons of copies of Don Quijote in every language and Rosie and I agreed we wished we knew the story better to fully appreciate museum.
More thunderstorms right now! Hopefully tomorrow will be a nice cool walk to my placement exam for classes! Definitely nervous about full days of only Spanish!
La Casa de Cervantes

2 comments:

  1. You have inspired me to read Don Quijote

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  2. Amanda,
    I am so glad that your aunt gave me this link! Looks like a great city; I'm jealous that you will return fluent in Spanish....Patrice Snellings

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