Lisboa

Okay...I was writing about the weekend, but I was giving a lot of boring details and so I'd rather talk in bullet points and add a bunch more pictures (sorry I have few of myself).

-This weekend me and 4 other guys decided to go to Lisbon, Portugal.

-It was fun.

-Arrival: Saturday morning 7ish (we took a bus to Madrid, metro then an overnight train)

Couldn't check into our hostel until 1, but left bags there and walked around

Our room, the wall of portugese to get you by. The hostel was awesome...the staff was chill and we milked 2 days out of them...aka we hung out there before we checked in, and Sunday we were able to leave out stuff there and hang out until 10 (when we left for home)...we met some Brazillians and people from Poland, also a girl from Minneapolis (she was kinda weird though)

-What else? Oh yeah, Lisbon, the rest of Sunday we slept, walked around a bit more and hung out with ppl at the hostel...then tried to go out at night, it's always hard to know where to go in big cities.

-Sunday was cool and we had sunny days...and it got hot. Like t-shirt weather. We did a lot of sightseeing like...a castle and we got a half off discount being a student. Great view of Lisbon

and we saw some peacoacks...

Later, we took a ferry ride across the river to see that tiny statue in the same pic of me. It's a giant statue of Jesus...we decided we had to go see it...it was a long walk, but I'm glad we made it. We took an elevator to the top and supposedly its the highest point in Portugal. Great view.

-Sunset, hung out a bit, headed out. Got on the train at 10:30, sat with a girl from Maine and a guy from Germany-both studying in Madrid-we were laughing for the first few hours until they turned the lights off in the train. Got back this morning and went straight to class (1/2 hour late, but it was fine)

Well, today I have a bunch to do. Tomorrow is Carnival (Europe's version of Mardi Gras for a few weeks before Ash Wed). This wed we are going to Andalusia. It's going to be a lot of Muslim history. I'm really excited. Alright. Take care...and go learn another language....a lot of ppl over here know at least 3 or more. :)

David

p.s. the formatting on this website sucks