{"id":5680,"date":"2014-07-09T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:14:44","slug":"exploring-the-sounds-and-legends-of-salamanca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/exploring-the-sounds-and-legends-of-salamanca\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the sounds and legends of Salamanca by Kadeem Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10488094_824621487571680_4376475278055717363_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5687 alignright\" alt=\"10488094_824621487571680_4376475278055717363_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10488094_824621487571680_4376475278055717363_n-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not sure what to say about today that I haven&#8217;t said already, but anyway I had an oral in class today about my family and I don&#8217;t feel I did all that well. I guess I got my point across though &#8230;it was way too much hesitation and ugh ugh ugh but I&#8217;ve got great teachers and plenty more time to practice. However when I&#8217;m in the streets of Salamanca I find I have no problem conversing and being understood (except for forgetting a word here and there!)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>We had another scavenger hunt today, where we had to run around and ask locals for answers only they would know, like where is this building or what&#8217;s a local import? We got second place, but in my defense, the team that beat us were Spanish and I feel they had an advantage.\u00a0Yesterday I ate an apple off a tree and today I noticed grape vines growing on the walls. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m from Florida and I think that&#8217;s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>While waiting for our class for our excursions to the cave, a <em>tunas<\/em> (frat mariachi band) started playing, and I got to say there are a lot of talented artists everywhere here. We were passing the cathedral on our way to <em>cuvea de diablo<\/em>, the devils cave, where as the legend goes the devil would train seven students in magic arts (what we call the sciences) and at the end of the year as a winner of a lottery one student would have to stay for eternity and give up his soul.<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_53bd0e4259e121e43445109\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1909618_824621604238335_4830939483504340741_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5682\" alt=\"1909618_824621604238335_4830939483504340741_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1909618_824621604238335_4830939483504340741_n-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10384096_824621544238341_4932132510197366707_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5683\" alt=\"10384096_824621544238341_4932132510197366707_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10384096_824621544238341_4932132510197366707_n-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10404282_824621810904981_183855815567626838_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5684\" alt=\"10404282_824621810904981_183855815567626838_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10404282_824621810904981_183855815567626838_n-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10410708_824621744238321_3483026020158638216_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5685\" alt=\"10410708_824621744238321_3483026020158638216_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10410708_824621744238321_3483026020158638216_n-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10487590_824621390905023_813957289465693201_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5686\" alt=\"10487590_824621390905023_813957289465693201_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10487590_824621390905023_813957289465693201_n-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10489753_824621450905017_7769291455682026999_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5688\" alt=\"10489753_824621450905017_7769291455682026999_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10489753_824621450905017_7769291455682026999_n-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to say about today that I haven&#8217;t said already, but anyway I had an oral in class today about my family and I don&#8217;t feel I did all that well. I guess I got my point across though &#8230;it was way too much hesitation and ugh ugh ugh but I&#8217;ve got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/exploring-the-sounds-and-legends-of-salamanca\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploring the sounds and legends of Salamanca by Kadeem Thomas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-5680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","category-study-abroad","tag-spanish-language-immersion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8906,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}