On Sunday, Lizzy, Cory, Casey, and I went with some Erasmus students to Toledo, which is a city about 1 hour from Madrid. The city is built on hills and there were lots of inclining streets. We saw la Iglesia de San Tome which is where El Greco (an artist from the 1600's) painted a famous painting that we learned about in our Spanish art class. It was cloudy and a little bit cold because of the wind, so we tried to find things to do inside but not much was open since it was Sunday. We went to a couple bars, ordered tapas, and sat and talked to a guy we met who is studying to become a doctor. To become a doctor in Spain, you have to go to 6 years of school which is like a bachelor's and medical school combined. Then, you take one year to study for an exam. After you take the exam, you do a residency for 4-5 years, depending on your specialization. It was really interesting talking to him because Casey and I are going to do a project on the differences in health care systems between Spain and the US for our phonetics final speech. At the last bar we went to, they had Bulmer's cider that I had in Ireland, but this time pear instead of apple. I was so surprised they had it and tried pear, which I liked even better!
On Monday, we went to the national park in our state called Monfrague. They canceled our classes so we spent the whole day there. I had already gone with my sister but it was fun to go again with everyone else. I got a little bit sunburned...thank goodness my host mom didn't notice or I would have been in trouble for not wearing enough sunscreen. We climbed up to a castle, hiked down a mountain, and spent a lot of time just standing and looking at the landscape.
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