My last days in Valencia flew by!
The last 2 weeks I dont really remember what happened. They were fulled of running errands, finishing a project and giving a presentation for my Spanish class, packing, and saying goodbye to the city.
For the 4th of July a bunch of us Americans went to the river park and shot off lots of fireworks. Vinesha and I had bought some super small fireworks and some sparklers. The the police pulled up and told us that you can only shoot off fireworks during this one fiestival in April...who knew! The the man stepped over this huge $30 firework and took my sparklers from me!! It was soo funny and the rest of the night and week I was getting so much crap from friends about how I keep doing illegal things and getting in trouble with the police with my sparklers! It was a realy fun night, but quite different from being in the US. *the picture is of Vinesha and our friend Kaite with our sparklers before the Police came*
On the last saturday in Valencia Vinesha and I went to Ciudad de las ciencias...city of the sciencias. It is in the river park in the middle of the city. It is by far the most stunning modern buildings I have ever ever seen while in Europe. There is an opera house, iMax building, museum, and the biggest aquariam in Eurpoe. The science museum was really interactive and we spent a lot of hours in there playing!Then we went to the aquariam for the rest of the afternoon. We saw the sweetest dolfin show and the trainers would have the dolfins push them underwater and then swim up to the surface and shoot them into the air. The trainers were doing flips in the air and it was true entertainment! We saw penguins, walruses, coral, this seahorse that looked like a tree, sharks. There was a long tunnel with water on all sides and it was super fun fun fun!
On the last week of class our spanish professor took us to a city/area called Albufera. We climed some hill and talked about how important tourism is to Spain and how the errosian of the beaches is a huge huge issue Spain is having right now. I was really tired of Spainsh that day and I gave up on trying to figure out what he was explaining to us. My head hurt. Later we took a boat ride on this man made lake that was massive!! The sun was setting and the weather had a slight chill. I could have been on Lake Minnetonkan in Minnesota and it was the first time in almost 2 months of being in Euproe that I truly felt homesick. The boat ride was very realxing and it was a great end to a fun day of seeing more of beautiful Spain.
After the field trip, Vinesha and I went back to our favorite Chineese buffet for one last time of delicious food!! yum!
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