Benidorm

Hola amigos y familia!

Hola to all my readers out there (AKA just my mom who constantly wants updates on my life over here). It has been crazy here and I haven't had much time to even think about what I have been doing the past week! I know you've all been lying awake restless wondering what I am doing at every hour of every day. Well, you'll be happy to know that Spain is teaching me wonders and I am still having the time of my life.


It is safe to say that any doubts I had before I came to Spain have been alleviated. The weather is starting to warm up again to the 70's (THANK GOD) The 60's literally seemed freezing to me, guess I am spoiled with the weather over here. So this weekend most of the students in our group took a trip to a small town in Spain called Cuenca, but a group of us girls decided not to go because it was pretty pricey and didn't seem like it had much for us to do there. So I got a group of 7 girls together to take a short day and night trip to the city Benidorm again, which is only about an hour and a half tram ride away from here. We decided this time to stay the night there, so they let me be in charge of finding a hostel for us to all stay at. Well, that was a mistake. I found the cheapest hostel in town which was only 9 euro a person to there a night. The hostel was really night and we had our own bathrooms and rooms, but it just so happened to be in the gay district of the town, oops! We started to wonder why there were rainbow flags all over the streets where we were and over the bar signs everywhere we went, then we quickly figured that out when we met our overly flamboyant hostel owner. At first everyone kept saying, "oh typical Kelsey!" but it ended up being a blast with everyone staying there.

We got there and went on the rooftop terrace of our hostel for mimosas and to check out the view which was beautiful! It was really warm that day so we all threw on our swim suits and went out to explore.

Girls from Mizzou and Arizona State University in Benidorm

That day we went walked around the city, went to the beach, and then got Kebaps for dinner (which is a Mediterranean type of sandwich that is EVERYWHERE here) The owners also gave us free "gofres con chocolate" for dessert which are hot waffles with chocolate sauce. It rocks to be American girls in Spain. 

The sea is still freezing!

Abby and I on the beach

After the day we all went back to the hostel to nap before we all went out to explore the nightlife of Benidorm, which is a lot bigger than Alicante's! Even though I booked 4 beds for all of the girls in the hostel, we all of course decided to pile in one together so we didn't have to be apart!

You can't find me because I am the one taking the picture

We all went home on Sunday morning but were not quite ready to separate back to our own homes yet, so we all went to our friend Caitlyn's host family house and had a movie marathon for about six hours. Almost felt the same as being back in Columbia with my roommates, only one hundred times better because we are in Spain!!

That is all I have for you for now, and I hope things are warming up for you back over en Los Estados Unidos! Love you all!