My adventure of a weekend

Well, I´m sitting in an internet cafe type thing right now. There actually aren´t too many of these anymore in Granada, so it´s kind of hard to go online during the weekend. During the week, we can go to the library near us, or the ISA office but on Sundays especially everything is pretty much closed. I´m sitting here listening to Miranda Lambert on my iPod, it´s an interesting mix of cultures. Anyways, my trip here is getting close to 3 weeks so far. I´ve been having lots of fun lately. On Friday night, a bunch of us went over to this girl´s apartment who is in our program and hung out for a bit. Then some of us went to this festival concert thing. We thought it would be about a 20 minute walk from where we were, but it ended up being probably 45 minutes. It was about 1 AM when we got there and it was full of people, even little kids were out playing on the stuff for kids. It was weird to see kids out so late. But there was also this concert but there were so many people. It was pretty gross because everyone was either drunk or high and the place wreaked of alcohol, but the concert was pretty cool. I have no idea what group it was or anything, but apparently the festival went on until 3 AM. We only stayed in that crowd of people for about 10 minutes. I couldn´t take being that close to people, getting bumped every 2 seconds. It was a cool experience but I didn´t want to be there for long. Kyla and I got separated from a few of the other people in the group, but we decided to go home so went to try and call a taxi, but none of the phone numbers we had worked. So, we started walking a little bit, we were practically speed walking because we were freaking ourselves out. But, thankfully an empty taxi drove by and we were able to get in it. The taxi driver was a young, nice, good looking guy that had just started the job the day before. So we talked to him and then went home, even though he accidentally took us to sort of the wrong spot. It was an interesting night for sure!
Yesterday was another whole adventure. We met these Spanish guys at this karaoke bar we went to and they ended up calling us yesterday to get some coffee. We all went to this really yummy place called Cafe Futbol. Then they invited us to play soccer with them and some friends and we decided to go. We ended up playing soccer with Spanish guys in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I was like I can´t believe we´re here playing soccer with Spanish guys in the mountains! It was really fun, but I´m not very good at soccer. They didn´t seem to care though.
Today, I went to a church that is about a 20 minute walk from where we live which isn´t very long in Granada. I really liked it! Everyone was so friendly, we met some people our age and found that they hang out pretty much every weekend so hopefully we can join them this weekend. I recognized some of the songs we sang during the worship part, and it was so cool to be singing to God in another language. So, things are coming along here. I feel like I am making a life for myself, and I´m enjoying meeting new people and trying new things.
I am definitely missing people and everything about home, but I´m feeling much less homesick than I did before. I have two more weeks of the intensive month class, which really isn´t that intensive. We don´t have much homework or anything, and a lot of it is review that I still need to learn. I bought my plane tickets to travel to France, Switzerland, and Italy during our one week break after this month which I´m really excited about. Then the semester starts and we start our real classes. It seems like I´m still going to be here for such a long time, but really it won´t be that long. It has already gone fast and I´m sure once we´re busy with school and stuff it will go even faster. I´m here for a total of 16 weeks and I already only have 13 weeks left pretty much. I´m trying to think if there is any other update but I can´t think of anything else. I will write again soon and I miss and love all of you!!