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The Spain I have come to know over the last 30 some-odd days is not the Spain I learned about in history classes. In history we were told that Isabel and Ferdinand told Columbus to sail the ocean blue. In … Continue reading →

This Heladeria is in Nervion, and I know about it mainly because it is the only place in town I know of with Nutella ice cream. My ice cream is chocolate-y, creamy and refreshing.  I went at 7 pm on … Continue reading →

While I don´t have many long stories right now, I do have several small anecdotes to share: One day as I was walking back from school, and few kids from the preschool/daycare center place by the park started calling for … Continue reading →

6/17, 97 degrees Fahrenheit I went out searching for a cool heladeria my Spanish professor had mentioned in class. I wandered around the street and asked shop keepers for direction and no one knew what I was talking about. I … Continue reading →

This weekend I tried to do two sets of field notes, one at Rayas, the heladeria that is most recommended on Google, and then I tried to do some in Triana because Kristen´s host mom apparently says the ice cream … Continue reading →

Alternate titles for this blog post include: ¨All Who Wander Are In Fact Lost (Duh, it´s Sevilla),¨ ¨Always Choose Misadventure,¨ and ¨Things I Did Yesterday When I Should Have Been Working on My Ethnography (oops).¨ Yesterday started out great. Our … Continue reading →

Two weeks before I came to Spain, a random man stopped me on campus and asked me where my hair was from (it´s weird – after getting comments like that for so long, you´d think I´d have a clever answer … Continue reading →

I went back to Amorino, this time in the late afternoon, to take more field notes. It was a Wednesday at 6:09 and 91 degrees Fahrenheit. Same shop, now  sitting in the raised middle table the people were at yesterday. … Continue reading →

This past weekend´s excursion was to Córdoba and Granada. In Córdoba, we toured a cathedral that is actually 80% mosque and  20% cathedral. In most cities, when the Christians conquered Spain, they destroyed the mosques. However, in Córdoba, they built … Continue reading →

Note: All conversations in Spanish unless otherwise noted The signs outside read, ¨Amorino – Gelato Natural¨ and ¨Caffé Cioccolato.¨ This place serves ice cream, gelato and macaroons. It is just off of Plaza Nueva.  It is 2:06 and 79 degrees … Continue reading →