Sofia Somewhere

One of Spain's most popular  puentes (long weekend) is the Puente de la Constitución y la Inmaculada . Both days are national holidays with Día de la Constitución (Constitution Day) on the 6th of December and Día de la Inmaculada (Immaculate Conception) on the 8th. Usually, the 7th becomes a day off too and Spaniards get a long weekend. Nice and Lia, two friends from my university in the Philippines who are currently auxiliars in Huelva, told me that they would be going to Salamanca for the puente, so I decided to join them that weekend. I arrived in Salamanca on Saturday morning and Lia and Nice picked me up at the bus station. It was so nice to see familiar Filipino faces! We first had breakfast at Café Real , right at Plaza Mayor. I was surprised at how cheap it was, considering it was in a prime location (€1,60 for a café con leche and a tapa of your choice). With some coffee and food in our stomachs we got right to talking and catching up, and it was non stop laughter an...

The morning after, I woke up at 11. 'Twas quite late but I don't know why the others didn't wake me up. I must ave been really tired from my lack of sleep. I huriedly changed then out we went. We still had some ime before our 1:00 bus to Avila. We stopped by at a small cafe for breakfast then headed to the university. Salamanca has a really good university (especially for Spanish language programs) and since the city is small, it's really populated with students. Anyway, we headed to the main buiding of the university. Here, you're supposed to find the frog. Supposedly, if you're a student at the university, you can't graduate without finding the frog. We tried to look for it, but then this woman selling postcards right outside the university pointed it out to us. Oh well. the University of Salamanca

Sorry for the short hiatus, but I'll try to update a lot now before our flight to Barcelona this afternoon. So back to after the game: Since I went straight from the game go the apartment to the airport, I landed in Madrid still in my Barça jersey. Needless to say, I got a lot of funny and dirty looks from Madrileños. Oops! Haha.