Chill-laxing

Today was a very relaxing day! We got to sleep in till 10:00am but Christa, Chelsea and I totally forgot that it was daylight savings. So we were suppose to meet the other girls and Mereille at 10:00am but instead we were waiting outside at 9:00am. Since we woke up an hour early, we decided to rest a little bit before we actually had to meet up. Mereille came over to help us plan our weeklong trip around to Seville, Ronda, and Granada. Ashley decided to take the plunge in helping plan the weeklong trip with Mereille. THANK YOU GIRLS!!! While they were busy going to the bus stations, and booking the hotels the rest of us decided to walk down to the market that happens every Sunday in the port. There were all sorts of things that you can imagine there, scarves, purses, jewelry…etc. I wanted to buy everything! After walking around and seeing everything we walked back but inside of going our usually route we went towards the beach. We got stuck in a parking lot full of mud, but we eventually worked our way around the big pills. When we arrived back at the apartment; Mereille and Ashley were still working on the plans. 

They said we should go lay by the pool so most of the day we spent the day out by our pool. The view in the back of our apartment is very beautiful; we can see Gibraltar and the top of Africa in the distance. Spending the whole day out by the pool there was a local restaurant on the beach that was having live music and a BBQ. After Ashley and Mereille were done planning the long trip, we all walked down to the restaurant. When we arrived we were very shocked that the live music was a man wearing 70’s looking tight pants that included speakers in them. He even made up his own words to the songs. Very entertaining, we were all laughing! Chelsea had the pleasure of volunteering ;) to sing a song to the rest of the audience but he couldn’t find Grease Lighting! This pretty much ended our day…

 

You may be wondering who Mireille (Mir-ray) is…she is our lifesaver! She is Sam’s cooperating teacher and she is the Physical Education teacher/coach at the International School. Mireille is very welcoming and nice! The first day we got here she took us down to the port and had dinner with us. She has really showed us the taste of Estepona. Also helping us a lot with planning our trips! I don’t know where we would have even begun without her. We also have gone to her apartment to use her Internet since we are waiting till next Monday to set it up because of our weeklong Holiday. Meireille has really helped us with a lot of things and we are learning a lot about the Spanish culture from her!  

~Libby