Wednesday, 28 January 2004
Churtemosque
NOW I am in Sevilla, which is in the Andalucian province in the South of Spain for our week-long trip! Too bad its raining and I am super sick! Everytime I breathe, my lungs ache, I am so tired of breathing! Okay, but anyhow I went out last night (hey when am I ever gonna be in Sevilla again?!) and we were walking down the street and see a beautiful terraza! You look through the black wrought-iron gates and there are plants everywhere and cute little apartments. SO one of my friends decides that it would be fun to take a picture there. She trespasses through the gate which as open and shuts it. Yeah, so it clicks shut and locks by itself. LOL! She was stuck in there, it was like a big birdcage! HAHA, I was laughing so hard I almost had an asthma attack! So we rang all of doorbells (buttons for apartments on the outside of the gate), but no one was home. Then this 90 year old lady walk out and we ask if she can open the gate, and she says ¨NO!¨ and slams her door shut! SO then we were starting to get worried and think about calling the guardia civil (policia) or something to get her out. SO then she starts knocking on doors and FINALLY someone tells her where the secret buzzer is to get out of there! SO FUNNY! She was in there for a good half hour! HAHA! So after Sevilla, we made a pitstop in Cordoba and saw a really famous a churtemosque or in spanish iglestemesquita...now if you´´re wondering what exactly THAT is actually it´´s church, temple and mosque all in one. This churtesmosque was beautiful, it had koran inscriptions on the wall, with a catholic altar and crucifixes...inside of a jewish neighborhood next to a jewish temple...how crazy is that!? I guess they all used to live together happily, and then fought to take over each other. WOW! But anyways so that was nice...one of the billions of beautiful churches here in Spain! I am so uncultured for saying this right now, but I think I am really tired of visiting cathedrals! Í never expected THAT to happen...( I know I know i´m awful, but how would you feel if you saw every cathedral ever made in your state every day for a week?) By the way, guess what! I made up the word churtesmosque... (and iglestemesquita)...could you tell??