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So it's been a while since I posted something so I'm going to try and keep each description short. That is why I separated today's post into two separate ones.
1) I absolutely love my Spanish teacher, Marta. I want to take her home with me. She is so patient with us and just gives us great information about Spanish culture and the kind of things I wanted to learn when I came here.
2) Surfing: I'm doing a surfing class! It's only 5 2 hour sessions, but it is tiring after 2 hours! It's crazy! So far I've only done it 2x, but I have three more for this week. The first day I did really well. I could stand up on the board a couple of times and rode some waves in. We weren't that far off of the shore, but I still felt super accomplished! It was a lot of fun. The second day, the waves were a lot bigger and my board was shorter, but I still got up a few times. I got a bruise on my right knee that is still there after like 5 days and my left knee was super swollen from the times I would fall and hit them on the sand. I kept going though! The other thing about surfing that really hurts is getting hit in the face with a board. The first time someone else lost hold of their's and it hit me in the jaw bone then the second time when I surfaced after being attacked by a wave, my own board hit me in the side of the head. Ow!
3) The other day, some of the girls and I went and got burgers "para llevar" (to go) and sat along the coast and watched the sunset. It was really relaxing and the sunset was beautiful! We also took a lot of goofy pictures, as always!
4) Friday I went off on my own and explored the Guggenheim. Technically Mariah was with me, but in the Gug it's like you're alone and then she left before me so it was my own solo adventure day! Outside is this massive dog that is covered in live flowers. They switch the flowers out at the end of every month and water them daily. The colors of the flowers they choose changes seasonally so right now they are summery and bright, but in the spring they are more greens and the winter, more blues. Fall is obviously autumn colors. They call it the "Pupy" and yes, its pronounced "Poopy." There are all kinds of other sculptures surrounding it as well. Pictures can be seen on Facebook. Once inside the museum, you are given a handheld remote that you hold up to your ear and punch in numbers to hear about all the different art galleries. My favorite by far was the one on the second floor that contained maybe 5 different renditions of the "Sermon on the Mount" by the same artist. It was his interpretations of what an older painting may have looked like before it was burned in a fire. The largest one was painted on 15 canvases (I think?) and covered an entire wall. It was massive and I stood looking at it for a long time. Another one of my favorite galleries had really funny titles to the paintings (all of which were also the same painting just in different colors). It was just too much to describe! One thing that I was not very impressed with was that one artist has converted to almost all iPad paintings. He paints on his iPad then prints it onto paper. Yes, it takes a lot of skill to do that, but I would not call it art, necessarily. I wouldn't go to an iPad gallery. Paint is just such an amazing artistic medium. I love seeing the paint strokes and everything. Its much more personal. Another thing I disliked was that one gallery was just filled with blown up photographs. I don't really see the art in that or the video of a guy taking up space in multiple different ways. I prefer paintings much more.
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