On Wednesday we left Seville to go to the beach for three days. My hostfamily owns a house right next to the sea where we would stay. At this time I had already seen dozens of Semana Santa processions and I was glad to get some time off from the boiling and crowded city. We arrived at the beach in the night after a 1,5 h trip and went to bed right after.
The next morning we slept in and went to the beach. We spend a great time laying in the sun and relaxing. Later, we had lunch and made a trip to Portugal which I enjoyed a lot.
On friday, we started the day as lazy as on thursday and hung around the house studying. In the evening, we were invited to a family dinner and watched Semana Santa processions from the balcony of the house in which we stayed. I met many nice people and had a very good time.
On saturday, the day of my birthday, we left early in the morning to head back to Seville.
My Internship in Spain
Please take a look around my blog! Here I'm going to publish all my impressions and excitements I will experience during my stay in Spain. On March, 22nd of 2015 I am leaving my hometown Mülheim an der Ruhr to spend 4 weeks living in a host-family in Seville. I'm going to intern in the office of a local school and I will return to Germany on April, 17th.
Sonntag, 5. April 2015
Montag, 30. März 2015
Semana Santa
Yesterday, I got for the first time an idea of what "mucha gente" in Seville means. The entire city was full of people in dresses, suits and coats, following and performing the Semana Santa processions.
It was Domingo de Ramos, the official first day and start of the holy week. In the morning, the first thing people do is going to church. At the entrance visitors are given a ribbon to put on the jacket to show they were at that particular church. Inside, they receive a branch that they can wear with the jacket or put next to the entrance of their homes for good luck.
my host-brother Andres and me during lunch with his family |
Around early noon, the processions start.
Those processions consist of many members. For exapmle there are those, wearing a coat with a peaked top, in the color of the "brotherhood" they belong to. Those brotherhoods are related to the churches in the districts of Seville. Many of those nazarenos are walking barefoot for hours to honor christ. Others have comitted to carry a wooden cross during the entire procession. Then there are those, who carry very heavy, antique wooden sculpures through the streets that represent religious symbols.
a wooden scultpure, carried by men |
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semana_Santa_in_Sevilla
Dienstag, 24. März 2015
First Days in Seville
View from the Cathedral downtown |
The school in which I intern |
Sometimes there are some difficulties following up on everything that's been said, because the accent in the southern region of Spain is difficult to unterstand. For example, people simply avoid the use of the character 's' in most words. Therefore 'pues' becomes 'pue' and 'adios' 'adio'. Also, people are talking really fast. Still though, my spanish has already imroved remarkebly during those days, since I almost only speek spanish to my host family and most teachers at school.
I'm very much looking forward to many more days to come!
Montag, 23. März 2015
Reunion in Madrid
Samstag, 21. März 2015
Preparations
Tomorrow my journey is going to start! Around 12.00 am I'm departing from Düsseldorf Airport. The first stop of the travel is Madrid. I'm eventually getting to visit my friend Pablo Cebral, who I have spend a year living with as a host-brother in Austin, Texas during my exchange-year in 2012/2013.
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