La Pala

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Translation: paddle (for a kayak)

Today we went on an excursion to Vitoria, Spain. We started out with three hours of kayaking through this amazing river surrounded by beautiful walls of stone. We went through a cave, under some bridges, and stopped in this spot with a rock we climbed onto and jumped off of into the water. The water was way warmer than the air and possibly warmer than our shower at this point. It was pretty awesome! Morgan was Captain Morgan and I was the Navigator. Her and I made up the dream team today. It was great!

After kayaking, we went into the city of Vitoria to see a cathedral that is being re-done. We had to wear hair nets and hard hats to go inside because it isn't fully structurally sound. The columns holding up the ceiling are bending and so are the arches on top of them. It was really cool. I then slept all the way home.

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I'm super bummed that I only have a week left in Spain. And at least 24 hours of that will be spent in a classroom learning Spanish. But I guess that is ok since that's why I'm here in the first place. Tonight, we're going to a street fair that doesn't start until 11pm so we're going to be out late at this street party that goes till all hours of the morning. It should be an interesting cultural experience but the people here party way to hard for me! The rest of the week, I plan on skipping my afternoon naps and doing stuff all day no matter what. I have so much more that I want to do here and so little time! I can go to bars and that kind of stuff when I get home, but seeing Spain is something that I won't get to do for a while (hopefully I'll be back).

It's funny seeing everyone's transitions over the past couple weeks. I could tell everyone started getting homesick a couple days ago because the topic of conversation lately has become centered around boyfriends or love interests back home. It's really funny because at the beginning it was all about everything else like Spain and school and talking about ourselves to get to know each other and now its about boys at home.

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