Adventures

In New York, my friends and I go on "Adventures" however, we either just drive around town or we get semi lost and then we find our way home. We never really find anything interesting when we go on our adventures unlike here in Spain. I feel like no matter where you go or how many times you just go out for a walk you always find something new and your going for a walk or to a beach turns into an amazing unforgettable adventure.
This week so far I went on two adventures. The first was tuesday after class going to Sopelana to see the beach. This adventure started off bad we got on a metro that stopped the stop before Sopelana and then after we had to get off and wait for the next metro that went to Plentzia. After getting on the right metro we arrived to the metro in Sopelana.

After arriving in Sopelana we had to find the beach. So we looked at a map and we thought it was easy. However, we figured we should ask people just to make sure we were going the right way. After we got to a corner we asked a man who then asked his wife. Surprisely she spoke english! Then after she told us where to go we understood and followed however, we think she said right and meant left...so we ended up going the wrong way. We asked another man on the way which we thought was the right way. He said he would have drove us there but there was too many of us so he told us about the bus stop that would take us to the beach that was two minutes in the opposite direction. However, on our walk we saw the town.

  this looked like an important building

different houses

 view of the land

 when we thought we were going the right way.

After getting on the bus and paying 60 cents to get us to the beach we finally arrived at Sopelana. It is an amazing view and if you know how to surf you can. However, there is a school too that will teach you...we found that out on our wrong way to the beach. Also there are rocks in the water so be careful where you go so you dont get scrapped.

 the view right off the bus

a big rock in the water view from right off the bus

walking to the beach

the view from the top of the stairs

on the beach...rocks in the water

beach =)

the huge rock.

My second adventure was doing to el museo de bella arte. That was easier to get to. However, I have walked by this museum several times not knowing that it was what it was. It was so beautiful in there. Too bad in many of the museum you can't take pictures. However, even the outside is pretty though. If you go through the room in the correct order you can see how everything change. From religious to modern you see the beauty in every picture. Also a few of the pictures are in restoration and some of the pictures that have been restored we helped to be restored by el corte ingle. I thought that was interesting. Also a couple of the pictures are in other museums like in the El prado in Madrid or the hispanic society museum in New York. Two of the paintings I saw looked exactly the same at first glance but after studying them I saw the little differences.

 statue on the outside of the museum

 

the entrance

 statues on the outside of the musuem

a fountain where everyone was drinking from

 more statues

  beautiful park beind the museum

 the part i walk by all the time when I go to Plaza Moyua

Interesting building by the museum.

I have seen amazing sights in the past two days. Also I have gone more places here than I have gone in the United States. In the United States I have basically gone to the same places and know how to go wherever I want to go. Where here I have to have an actual adventure and figure out where to go. Spain has taught me and shown me a lot more in the past couple of weeks then I actually know about the USA and I have lived there my whole life.