rain rain go away!

it has been raining off and on since i got to sevilla. i didn´t even bring a jacket from madrid this trip because everyone knows that it doesn´t ever rain in the south of spain, except this week.

last night i went to a bullfight. it was such an obscure corrida. i think ernest hemingway wrote that without the sun, there is no bullfight. not that it is cancelled, but that the sun is such a key ingredient to a succesful bullfight. for me it wasn´t too bad. the tickets prices aren´t based soley upon their proximity to the ring, but depending on whether your seat is sombra (shade), sol (sun), or sol y sombra (sun and shade). a ticket in the exact same level in the sombra is two or three times as expensive as the seat in the sol. this season these two weeks in sevilla is probably the second most important season every year for bullfighting. so all the best fighters are there, and the bulls are suppose to be the most brave anf fit bulls they can find. but as i was saying, it was a pretty weird corrida. there was a horse that got toppled by a bull (the horse wasn´t hurt), there were two rainstorms that came through, one of the bulls got boo´d out of the ring because the people thought it was a coward and too weak, and the very last bull the toreo, amidst the second and much wetter rain storm took two ears (which is almost as good as you can do in sevilla). it was one for the books. by the end i was entirely soaked...entirely, but i wouldn´t have had it any other way.

later i went with this german lady, nina, from the hostal and two of her friends who were also staying in sevilla to the the place where the feria is. there were acres and acres of tents set up for different companies, familys, and clubs. some of the tents are public tents. so we went in to the psoe tent (psoe is the main right wing political party of spain). in the tent we found a huge crowd of people all dancing and clapping and singing along to the sevillana music. it was unlike anything you could imagine, or i could properly write about.

today the rain is at it´s worst. i went to the cathedral, bought an umbrella, and later i am going to meet with christopher and sarah (the germans i met in granada) to maybe go get some tapas and hopefully watch liverpool stick it to arsenal for the champions league match. that´s all for now. i dont know if i will get a chance to write much before i fly home, i think the next few days in madrid will be pretty busy, but we´ll see.

okay, people are waiting to use the computer. i should go. much love!