First full day in Salamanca

Walking Tour

Started out the day with breakfast (desayuno). This consisted of tea, cracker like cookies, and muffins with apricot jam.

Once my host mom came home from shopping we walked to the Plaza Mayor. There is where I met up with the API group. We toured the city where we may have classes and other useful buildings like the post office and banks that dont charge commission! The plaza is very pretty :-D

After that we returned to our houses for lunch. Lunch (almuerzo) is at 2:30pm. I'm definitely not used to that. For lunch we had spaghetti. I thought I was done then but I was told that I'm too skinny and need to eat this massive pork chop thing. I settled for half. Then was round 3 -- watermelon. At least it wasn't heavy like the meat. I was stuffed to the brim.

I met up with some people from my group at 3:15 to check out the city a little bit more. We first went to the dorms where others live. It's very spacious there. Once we grabbed a few of them we headed for the plaza mayor for a coke / water / tea. Here's Robert and myself. We were with Michael and Elizabeth and waiting for Jon, Bhavina and Cate. Four other girls walked through the plaza and joined us as well (Stephanie, Amy, Devon and Karen). All eleven of us headed down to the river to see the parks.

There we saw the beautiful cathedral as well as some super cool skateboarding spaniards. They fell a lot. Here's a group shot I took w/ my camera... it's a bit crooked but oh well.