"Y ahora tienes que bailar...no, ese fue un chiste"

"And now you have to dance... no, that was a joke."

A lot of news! This weekend we went to Carnaval in Cádiz. My friends and I dressed as a rainbow (arco iris) with one Native American, one gremlin creature, and one bellydancer. It would have been a great time except that it started pouring rain around midnight and we had nowhere to go until 6:30am, when our bus left. So we huddled under umbrellas in the freezing rain for two hours, wondering if we would ever be warm again.

(Here we are still dry).

I spoke today to the director of my program and the advisor for my independent study. I said it would probably more beneficial to study the evolution of the cathedral from a mosque to what it is today, and the political and social tensions that went into its design. As I'm talking about this (in Spanish, because she doesn't speak English) she whips out a 17th century map of Granada and suggests that I cover similar changes in the city as well. That might be too wide for me to study in one semester (and for only one credit). I'll be giving a presentation in Spanish to my art and architecture class, writing a paper (hopefully in English, but we'll see), and possibly giving a presentation next year at F&M as well. Daunting, but the good news is that I'm in control of what I study, which means I only look at the parts that truly interest me. I'm already so enamored with this cathedral that I'll welcome any excuse to talk about it.