One week. One week until I leave Sevilla.
I am spending my last week in Spain living up life at la Féria, so here's what I have been up to since Los Torros and the exit orientation last week!
On Friday night, we spent the evening and night at my host aunt's house working on a final project and eating dinner. I feel like that, when I look back on Spain, I will want to remember days like that spent with my host family. On Saturday, I got to walk around Seville and do a lot of shopping. It's so surreal walking around the city that I have come to know these past four months, and it's also surreal to imagine that I won't be a part of this city anymore in one week. My emotions are at such a stand still. It's like I'm holding my breath and waiting for all of it to hit me at once that I'm leaving. It's a crazy feeling.
On Saturday night, my roommate, host cousin, and I went to see the lighting up of the entrance at la Féria. We didn't stay super long, but we walked around to find the public casetas (tents) and our host family caseta which is actually for military family members. We didn't dress up that night because it's not as common, but we definitely decided then that we were looking forward to going dressed up this week.
On Sunday, my host cousin and I went to Los Rejones which is a bull fight from horseback. These horses are worth, at the least, $1,000,000, but they can be more. Throughout the fight, they are constantly changing horses, and the horses don't have the protective mat like the horses en Los Torros do. I feel like the bull fighting for Los Torros was better in the technique and showman ship department, but the horses at Los Rejones were out of this world. The amount of training these horses have to go through must have been extremely intensive. Their elegance was like nothing I have never seen before. Any person, even without knowledge of horses, could see how obviously amazing their performance was. Everyone was on the edge of their seats the whole time because the people on the horses kept less than a foot in between the horse and the bull. The theatrics were truly impressive.
After that, we went to the Féria all dressed up (which we wore during Los Rejones too), and we danced Sevillanas in the public tents with some locals! It was really fun.
On Monday, my host cousin, host aunt, host mom, and I spent the day together at my apartment eating lunch then dinner together. My host aunt's daughter and children came over to have fajitas with us. The granddaughter is only eight years old, and she speaks Spanish and English fluently. She is so intelligent, and my host cousin and I were completely in awe. We would be speaking Spanish then switch to English then switch back to Spanish. It was awesome. The grandson is four and a half years old, and he was just a bundle of energy. So cute.
Yesterday was another Féria day! My host cousin and I got all dressed up, and we met with our Sevillanas teacher to go dance at la Féria. She taught at another school too in Seville, and those students met up with us as well. They were from all over the US, and it was cool to hear about where each person comes from and what they like most about Spain. We danced outside las casetas of families, and people were amazed at this group of Americans who knew THE dance of Seville. They clapped for us. cheered, took videos, and pictures. It was crazy fun. We all got super hungry from that, so we had our last dinner with the teacher before parting ways. We returned to la Féria after saying goodbye, and we got into a private caseta which is a really cool thing because these are owned by the people of Sevilla. There was a dj and a lot of dancing. We also had the chance to dance Sevillanas a few more times before leaving at the ripe hour of 3:30 am. All in all, it was one of my most favorite days in Spain!
Today was a chill day full of Netflix, food, and laughs with my host cousin. I will head back to la Féria tomorrow with my whole host family and probably every day until it ends on Saturday night. My next post will be the night before I leave Spain and the day I leave Sevilla, so be on the look out for it.
xoxo,
Caroline
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