WOW. Carnaval was absolutely crazy. There were thousands and THOUSANDS of people in Cádiz since it's such a huge celebration. A bunch of people from ISA all went with Discover Sevilla, which is pretty much a travel agency aimed at foreign students. So we went with them, arrived after ten, which even though it was early the streets were PACKED. Carnaval is pretty much a huge botellon, which is like a big street party. So it was really just people packed in streets, dressed up ridiculously, lots of drinking, food, music, and just loud, fun socializing. Everyone was dressed up--EVERYONE and some costumes were really crazy--lots of crossdressers, pirates, chickens, cows (I didnt really understand the whole farm animal thing), sailors, doctors, hippies, and Where's Waldo.
We met a bunch of girls and a guy who were all dressed up as Where's Waldo and were from Barcelona and ended up talking to them for a while. It was really funny because I was speaking Spanish with them and if I didnt understand something, they'd turn to each other to try to explain it in either Spanish or English. It's funny though because everyone wants to try and speak English with you because they're trying to practice their skills and we're trying to speak Spanish to practice. It was pretty funny. When they asked how long I'd been here for--5 weeks, they said they were surprised since my Spanish was really good. Ha ha. We ended up talking to a bunch of other people and it was great since we got to speak in Spanish with people from Cordoba, Cadiz, Barcelona, Sevilla, y mas.
What fun. I think I might come back next year...
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