These are the things that I see everyday as I walk to class.This is the main plaza I walk by in the morning.
This is the building I go to class in. The Kenia Bulding
The Church I walk by with the mini plaza
The gorgeous graffiti artwork along the way. I figured I would post some pictures so you could see what I see everyday!
Primavera
First thing that you need to know is that if you are not in a restaurant that is outdoors or a cafe of some sort it is not legal to drink in the street in Granada. The Spanish government realized that the students were poor and didn't have anywhere to go and hang out cheaply with their friends so they invented the botellion. It is basically a large concrete parking lot on the outside of the city where you can bring your own alcohal and drink outdoors. This means that the students can buy euro boxes of wine or share bottles of whatever, hang out and have a good time. Primavera is a HUGE party that marks the beginning of Spring in Granada. All of the young people have a ridiculous party in the Botellion.
It starts out looking like this, pretty low key, a bunch of people sitting in circles listening to music and drinking/eating/playing games. People bring shopping carts with their groups alcohal and snacks. The party starts are noon and goes all night. Now if you look at the pictures I've posted that's around 3-4pm in the afternoon. By the time it reaches 8 oclock.. it looks like those last 2 photos. Literally 30,000 people came out to that TINY area to party.
The street got blocked off since students were spilling out of the Botellion into the streets surrounding. These are cops everywhere keeping the crazier of the students in line, but nothing is really done about fights unless someone gets hurt. Most of the the time the cops just observe and go back to smoking. 
It really is something that you have to experience in order to understand just how crazy that amount of people in that small of an area is. My friends and I were just lucky that we stuck together, after awhile you couldn't sit down anymore, you had to stand so you didn't get trampled. It was a really good way to improve my Spanish since everyone there was speaking spanish and they prefer it over english (if they know english at all). Anyways, I need to get to studying for my exams this week, then it's off to the beach apartment for the week! Talk to you all soon.More pictures located here
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