Slowly becoming Valenciano

I'm a couple days late on this post but this week has been quite busy and I have had a lot of homework, but I plan on talking about that in the next post... hopefully that one comes soon. This post is about the Sunday after my birthday, it was yet another eventful day.

I slept in and woke up around 11 am, Sam (my roommate) was gone on a run so I was talking to my Madre and she invited me to go to one of her friends houses with her... there went my plan to do all my homework in the afternoon. Fernanda and I left, picked up some snacks to bring and arrived at Candela's apartment. Candela gave me a tour of her apartment which is more of a museum than anything else. She is an artist and used to be a model back in her day, now she is anywhere in between 65 and 80. Her home was full of her works and photographs, she is very talented. She showed me all of her paintings and then the pictures of her back when she was younger, she was beautiful!... and naked, that was kind of weird for me. She also showed me the revealing pictures of her very handsome son who is now a model.

Slowly filed in the 60 year old women and before I knew it, it was myself and 5 old women sitting on a balcony. They were talking 100 miles per hour about boyfriends, politics, and plenty more. They were rifling questions my way, I was doing pretty well understanding everything but I would be lying if I said I understood everything. I learned a lot of Spanish from it! It ended up being a really fun afternoon, and we are going back this Sunday for paella and to pick fresh food from the garden they all share. I am looking forward to it, and this time Sam is coming so I won't be as out numbered! I will make sure I take pictures to post next time so you guys can see.

At night we went to the last home fútbol game of FC Valencia. It was an absolutely ridiculous experience, I loved it! We went to a bar a couple hours before the game and everyone in there was singing and chanting non-stop, it was sooo loud! An absolutely crazy environment! They taught me one of the chants so I could sing along. Then we took to the streets where they were kicking flares around, waving flags, and attempting to knock down street signs. It was too much fun.

Once inside the stadium everyone was singing and cheering, I was struggling to keep up with everything, my soccer knowledge was not quite up to par. However I did make some friends to help me out named Hugo and Alejandro... they were 7... but very knowledgeable. Valencia won the game 1-0 so that was icing on the cake even thought I was hoping for a few more goals.
It was a great experience and definitely a highlight of the trip!

Flares

Kicking the flares (dangerous)

Ours seats

Los hombres del grupo

Mestalla Stadium