Beautiful Toledo

So, I've decided I never want to live in a big city... EVER.  Madrid was just too much for me personally.  Too many people, too dirty and too many buildings.  I was really homesick while we were there, I think mainly because I wasn't feeling comfortable in a huge city.  I'm stilly pretty homesick, but coming to Toledo today helped.  It is absolutely GORGEOUS here. The buildings, the shops.. even the roads.  Ryann and I really enjoyed the city tours today.  We wen to San Juan de Los Reyes, which was a catholic cathedral that was originally morrish and was taken over catholic church.  It was absolutely gorgeous and our guide explained to us the significance of Isabella and Fernando and showed us all of the intricate details in the buildings.   We then went to an antique sinagog that is in the town of Toldeo.  After that, we went to a beautiful rose garden and visited Grecko's most famous painting (Ryann was freaking out about that).  The painting was called (El Entierro del conde de Orgaz.  We also visited the most beautiful cathedral I have ever seen.  It absolutely huge and the details on it were so amazing.

Tomorrow we get up early and travel to Malaga (finally).  Unfortunately it is a 6 hour trip there, but I'm hoping there will be beautiful sites to see on the way.  We meet our Senora (host mother) tomorrow.  Her name is Carmen.  Ryann and I are both really excited to meet her and see our home and get in the routine of things.  Our house is 10 minutes from the main downtown plaza and is a 20 minute bus ride from school.  It's probably a 20 minute walk to the beach also.  We take our placement test for our classes on Thursday morning and have class Thursday and Friday from 830-130.  Then we have the next Monday and Tuesday off and then start up classes again Wednesday 830-130.  For the remainder of the time here we have class Monday-Friday 830-130.  I think getting in the routine of things will help me feel more at home.

Hopefully we will have internet at our house and if not, it is a 10 minute walk to the ISA office and I will be able to keep everyone updated from there.

Vaya con Dios!