The Mascleta was amazing! It was so loud and you could feel the rumblings deep in your chest. I'll try to get a video up soon. This week has been pretty good. On Monday I played some soccer and basketball with a bunch of the ISA kids. It was pretty fun. On Tuesday, a few of us went to explore downtown Valencia. It was our day to be tourists in our own city and we took a bunch of pictures. We went up a tower called Migueleta that was over 200 steps in this winding narrow spiral. When we got to the top it was amazing though! We could see the whole city! Then we went into a cathedral and saw the arm of San Vicente, the patron saint of Valencia. Yes, an arm. In a box. It was kind of gross...but kind of awesome. We got some chocolate con churros after. I guess during Fallas they set up vending stands of Chocolate con churros all over the city. They're like our fried dough! Yummmm.
Today we went to the Falla museum and got to see ninots from winning Fallas since the year 1932! We also got to see pictures of the entire huge thing! Some are bigger than buildings!!! I'm so excited! And they only save one small figure (sometimes taller than me) from the entire huge, elaborate Falla. The rest are burnt which will also be awesome. The weather hasn't been overly great this week so I haven't been doing too much exciting. Well, not too much happening. Next weekend we get to go to Granada in the south. The architecture there looks amazing from what I've said. There is a huge palace from when the Muslims inhabited Spain. I've been learning a lot of spanish history and it's fascinating. They were taken over so many times! That's what you get for living on a peninsula that basically connects Europe and Africa I suppose. Well that's it for now. I'll write again soon. :)
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