After meeting our host mom and dumping our bags in our new apartment, Laura and I went to our madre's grandson's 14th birthday party. We went to their beautiful house outside of the city and enjoyed empanadas and drinks with the family and a bunch of their friends. All the teenage boys kept laughing at our Spanish skills- asking us questions and then giggling when we tried to answer them haha.
This is the view of the sunset from the balcony of the house. It overlooked some of Granada and was so so pretty.
This is Laura, my roomie! Dunno how happy she'll be that I put this photo up... She is absolutely wonderful though, we make great companeros de cuarto and I love her yayy :)9/5 Saturday
We had orientation at our school center on Saturday, and oh my gosh the building is so beautiful. There is a bottom floor which is basically an entry way with a fountain, and then two floors of classrooms, offices, and a mini library. The top floor has a computer room, student lounge, more offices, and a rooftop terrace WITH A VIEW OF THE ALHAMBRA! Seriously, you go outside and look up and it's right there, across the street! You can also see the top of it from my classroom window, it's super cool.
After class during the day and siesta with lunch at home, we all went back to school in the evening for walking tours of the city with our classes. 
All of the streets look like this, with cobbleston roads and then beautiful houses with balconies. 
We got up to the top of the hill and had an incredible view of the Alhambra! It stretches all the way from the white palace on the hill on the left, across to the right, and...
to the rest of the fortress that you can see here. My school center is at the bottom right edge of the trees in this photo.
Right next to the lookout was a mosque (Granada is famous for its rich religious history) but we couldn't go inside.
This was in the courtyard outside to mosque. 
There are so many stray cats around this city, it's crazy to me. There are also a lot of dogs running around too, but there are sooooo many cats!
Towards the end of our walk we stopped by the Cathedral. I hope to go inside someday, but for now we just walked around the outside.
There was a concert in front of the Cathedral, and our profesora made us all get onto the dance floor. A couple days later we came here for the afternoon session of class sat on the steps of the cathedral playing charades :)9/6 Sunday
This was our day off, so we all slept really late. Our madre made fun of us for sleeping in so late, but said she understood that we were jet-lagged. I met up with a couple girls and we decided to walk around the city more to get acquainted with our new home.
We met at our school and then walked past the Alhambra, heading up to the hills again. There are fountains (and see the dogs!) everywhere throughout the city. Most are not safe to drink from, but some are set up as drinking fountains.
We went to a cute little restaurant for dinner. Dinner here happens super late, around 9 or 10 at night, and is not the biggest meal of the day (lunch is). Also, dessert is usually coffee or a piece of fruit - like our sandia here! And that's my first weekend in Granada! Coming up is our field trip to Cabo de Gata and more of the city!
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