17 March 2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! As a general update, this weekend, 9 buses of students, primarily extranjeros are taking a really long day trip to Valencia from 8:30 am to 3:30 am (yes that is "am"). We are going to Las Fallas, a celebration unique to Valencia celebrated for about a week until the 19, the day of their patron saint, who's name I cannot remember at the moment. It started as a tradition when carpenters burned whatever they had left over in their studios and has now expanded to a time of excess spending on artistic displays, the fallas themselves, which are built and decorated and then at the end burned. There is also a concert of explosion called the mascleta, an art of pyrotechnics where it is nothing but the smoke and smell of the gunpowder as well as the sound that pulses through your entire body. This takes place in the afternoon, and is supposed to be the day we go? I am not sure, but I will find out! There will definitely be a blog post and pictures after we get back, praying that I do not get pic-pocketed while I am there.