Portuguesa

guys, blogs are tedious. and like I think 5 people in the world might read this. hi Lauren. the one with the separate colored eyes. do you even want to read this? doesn't this take up your life? anyway this is Portugal:





We saw a bunch of stuff: the Castillo de San Jorge, Pastries de Belem, there was a labor strike that stopped our tram. But my personal favorite was the monastery. the building so intricate and breathtaking. and Vasco de Gama, the guy from all your social studies books who sailed around Africa is buried there. well his tomb is there. he's not even buried.



These are all the Portuguese conquistadores:


Our hostel was soooo cool. It was called Hostel Kitsch, so it was all decorated with these risque photos next to like old wallpaper and hearts. it's hard to describe. plus we had kitchen priviledges so that really helped with costs. it was fun just hanging out with random students too. I met some girl who goes to Wisconsin who knows the kid from Creighton who got shot last year! what a small world! this is the kitchen:



We spent a day at Fatima, which was like an hour and a half away. It's probably the holiest place I've ever been. I burned a candle.




Overall the trip was alright. It wasn't the most exciting because I didn't know anything about Lisboa before we went. But it was a nice jumpoff for stuff to come. This weekend is an off weekend before Cadiz for Spanish Carnaval (some wild party) next week and Greece for "Winter Break" the week after that. So stay tuned. Actually don't. This probably won't be updated for a while.

oh more photos here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nathanancheta