Granada so far

So from Madrid we took a train to Granada, which was about 4.5 hours. We had to wake up so early because this one group of girls would be so late down every day. But it was okay i didn't sleep on the train ride and just read my second book most of the time and looked at the beautiful landscapes out the window. Out hotel is soooo NICE compared to our last hotel. I mean our last hotel wasn't bad it just wasn't what i was expected from national geographic, but they got it i think more bc of its location in like the middle of the city of madrid then the niceness of it. Any ways this one in Granada is so cute. I am in one of the largest and nicest rooms with 3 other girls; Lierin, Merritt, and Eve. SOOO sorry if i spelt your names wrong i have dyslexia (a super hard word to say and spell give to people that cant do both, that makes since).

Any ways Granada is so beautiful, i love it. We have been a lot more relaxed while we have been here then Madrid, but it is because that is also the atmosphere of the city as well. When we got to Granada we went to go eat lunch and had MEXICAN FOOD, it wasn't tex mex but it was still good and smelt like home haha. Then we just relaxed the rest of the day since we were tired from just going going going all the time. We later met Tino our National Geographic Photography teacher, who is super cool and works really well with us, he doesn't speak english super well so it can be funny and cute when he says something wrong or doesn't know how to say something. 

The next day in the morning split into photography groups to work in a smaller group to get around better and learn more about specific subjects. The groups were people, abstract, and architecture- which i was in. It was a lot of fun and i got some good pics. we only did thins for 30 mins. Then we met back up together and walked around the city for a long time going up this really tall hill. When we reached the top there was this really small church and really small kinda plaza deck thing that looked out to Alcupacabra and almost the entire city of Granada, it was beautiful. Then Tino was tired and he and megan had to go to a meeting a 1:00 and had like 2 mins to be there, so we took the bus down. It was so much fun a bunch of us were just squished in the back standing/handicapped wheel chair people are suppose to be and had a good time. We came back to the hotel go to go off into small groups and eat what ever we wanted within a budget of coarse haha and it was really good i had this chicken dish with potatoes and a salad. Then had a siesta - love those!!! Then we went back up to the hill to take the picture but later in the day to see the changes in the lighting. While coming down we found this middle easter reastraunt that we eat at, i had home made hummus (YUMMM IT WAS SO GOOD) and chicken telkfjaks i cant remember the name only that it started with a T but it was good food. Then we got to the hotel late and had to have a lesson with Tino on photography. We didnt get ot bed until like 2 30 because of shower email blog excetra..... 

Then the yesterday we got to go to this kind of science museum kinda sorta. It was really cool, i got really excited since im like a science nerd but we didn't get to do a lot of the things i wanted to. But we got some cool pics while we were there. First we got to go to the outside park they had with a bunch of cool things and mind testing games, i dominated at the one i played i must say. Then we watched this video in like this dome thing so it looks all 3-d kinda and cool about this history of the moon, too bad the entire thing was in spanish and besides our leader, not our teachers, only like 3 people in our group can speak spanish well. So most of us fell asleep, it was just so soothing with the stary space soft kinda jazzy music and the guys very mellow calm voice, it okay tho bc even our leader fell asleep for a little while it was really funny. after that we went to go watch this birds of prey thing, still all in spanish, i had no idea what they were saying but they had all of these birds and would show us how they flew  and it was cool and got a couple good pics. My camera over heated during it and stopped working for like 15 mins. After that tho we got to go pick an exhibit to go to out of three. I went to the human body one, i got some TIGHT pics in there too, Tino went in that one and so did megan, leader and avery also. I did accidently go around this corner and say part of a child birth, it was grows, im so adopting kids mom i am not letting that happen to my body, and you are not changing my mind haha. Then we eat lunch because it was like 230 and we were STARVING and had one more long exhibit to see on the history of the muslim rule over spain and the science they used and developed. The food was so good, i would have never expected a museum to have such good food for such o low price. I have to say that they have really good deals here in spain we had bread a drink an appitizer meal and desert for lunch for i think 9 euros each i could be wrong. But it was AMAZING!!!! i had this pasta that was a mix between spagetti and lasania, i know Lucas can probably spell better then me i dont care that is why they have spell check on Word, i am super tired and this is my siesta so i really want to sleep so i am not going to sorry. That is my normal laziness kicken' in. Anyways we had an ealy night last night since we had a hard day. We didnt get back till almost 5 so we had siesta till 8 and had dinner on our own like we did for lunch the day before and then came back at 930 and had another lesson with Tino. 

Today so far we had a lesson with tino for like 5 hours in the morning talking to use about photography and him looking at our pictures and telling us how to make them better. Then we had lunch at this nice restraunt it was GREAT i had a salad with some fried fish and FLAN! omg it was soooooo gooooooood i wanted to lick the plate, but i decided not to since we are already labeled are messy americans or whatever, and to not make a fool out of myself in front of everyone. then later tonight we are going to take tripod pics and then watch the first half of the soccer game then go to Alchupacopra, idk how to spell it. I will put pics up when i get back my friend told me the secret on making the pics the right size so they dont take long to upload on the blog, like mine. 

Talk to yall soon

Shelbs