Joy and Segovia!

Before going to Club Joy we stopped at a tapas place so we wouldn't be complete light weights. We ordered croquetas which were sooo good and 4 glasses of wine for 5 euro! Muy barato! We then went to the club and got to cut the entire line thanks to our new club promoter friend, Sam. We drank mojitos and were invited to the VIP section for champagne! We even danced in a huge bird cage which was in the middle of the dance floor. At 4 we caught a taxi back home and went to sleep with our feet completely mauled. 

 After 3 hours of sleep we woke up to go to Segovia with the IES group. Apparently it only took 45 minutes to get there but I wouldn't know because I was asleep the whole time. However, once we got there I awoke to one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. The city is most famous for the enormous Roman aqueduct built in the 2nd century. We separated into groups for tours of the city and saw the Segovia Cathedral, Alcazár, and La Iglesia de Vera Cruz. Every building in the city is beautiful, with  intricate details in the architecture and cobblestone streets. It is also home to the most amazing building I think I have ever seen in my life, the Gothic style Cathedral of Segovia (built in the 16th century). The Alcazár, a palace built in the 12th century, was beautiful as well and we were able to tour around the inside of it. We saw the dining room for the royal family, an original bed, and other various rooms all with ceilings painted in gold. Situated around the rooms were actual suits of armor the knights wore. They were SO small, they looked like they would be worn by a child. Around the castle is a moat which made me feel sick to my stomach it was so deep. 
After the tour, we walked down the side of the cliff on a two foot wide path (literally). We all almost fell to our deaths domino style. We walked to la Iglesia de Vera 
Cruz, looked around, and then got back onto the busses 
to go to the restaurant where we would be having lunch.
Lunch was brought out in courses, red peppers (SO GOOD), croquetas, salad, pan de tomate, tortilla, salad con atún (tuna),  rotisserie chicken, and some sort of cake. On the bus ride home there was not one person awake. Kayla and I thought we might die if we had to walk home but luckily a bus came right as we arrived back at the station. After a LONG siesta, we woke up and got ready to go out to Joy again. We had plans to go to a shot bar with some people but, of course, did not make it in time. Because dinner is at such an awkward time and we slept through it, we stopped at McDonalds to grab something small on our way to the club. I got a small cheeseburger and Kayla got a "chicken move-it" which ended up being a single chicken finger. The McDonalds was extremely nice and also sold cerveza! When we got to the club we were again admitted in front of the line and got special wrist bands allowing us to sit in the VIP section (Kayla, Kaitlin, An, Tess, Carly, Nayha, and I). The club was completely different than it was the night before. Instead of having an elevated stage for people to dance on and a cage in the middle of the floor there was a 
VIP section where the stage was with all white couches and a huge martini class containing a dancer with only pasties and a thong ha! We danced up there for a while and then went to the second floor to hang out with the other IES people. We got home around 5 and passed out, loving the fact that we were able to sleep in for the first time since being here! We slept in until 1:30 and then went down to the pharmacy right beneath our building because Kayla has a cold (can't handle the new lifestyle..jk). Carmen made us noodle soup and some dish that I can't remember the name. It was basically garbanzo beans with a bunch of different meats and veggies. Now we're about to go to El Corte Ingles, the big shopping center, to get a curling iron and some Toms. Then we're walking downtown to the cathedral to look around with Sara and Liz. 
I'm finding that I am beginning to have trouble forming sentences in English after putting so much time and energy into forming them in Spanish! ehhhhhh. Necesito practicar mi Ingles un poco también! 
Hasta luego!

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