Ronda

Puente Nuevo

The excursion to Ronda yesterday was really cool. About an hour and a half outside of Sevilla, the town is situated atop the mountains. We saw plenty of gorgeous cliffs and of course the breathtaking Puente Nuevo. Believe me, it is so much more impressive in person than in pictures.

The amazing vistas were able to muffle from the fact that it was so cold up in those mountains. I wore about seven layers, no joke, but was still shivering.

Oh, and yesterday I found out that I have chilblains. Two of my fingers in my right hand have been swelling over the past week. At first, I thought they must've been bug bites of some sort. But yesterday when I woke up, they were huge. So I panicked and video chatted my parents, who ended up solving the mystery. Apparently the cold weather here has really gotten to my body - chilblains are actually ulcers that affect the fingers and toes when exposed to extreme cold. Wtf? It's not even that cold here in Sevilla; it's much colder in Chicago and New York. I guess it's the rapid transitions from the cold, humid air outside to my heated room that became too much for my already-poor circulation.

But I mean, hey, it's another new experience. That's the way I like to see things in life :)

Semester classes start tomorrow! Very excited and anxious. I have a bunch of classes listed to try out, and tomorrow will be a Spanish film class, art history, and anthropology. Humanities overload much? Haha. We'll see!