Learning more grammatical structures is always a double edged sword. When I only knew present tense, I often couldn’t express myself clearly. Now I have more tools in my toolkit, so it takes me longer to figure out which to use and how to use it.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, I still find myself shocked at how much I’ve learned in two weeks! Most of the\u00a0arrangement of my new apartment was handled in (written) Spanish, which is something I couldn’t have imagined doing competently two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Outside of school, I spent more time socializing with classmates and visited some more sites around town.<\/p>\n
Photos were forbidden inside the Monasterio de la Cartuja, which was really too bad. The first few rooms held an interesting (and often gruesome) selection of religious art, a lot of which focused on the maltreatment\/martyrdom of various Carthusian monks at the hands of the English (mostly). Also lots of dead\/near-dead people that look suspiciously like modern depictions of zombies. The main chapel is overwhelmingly baroque with a large dollop of creepy mixed in with the beautiful and reverential.<\/p>\n I also made it up to the San Miguel Alto viewpoint, which has views of both the city below and the Sierra Nevadas above. I believe it’s the highest viewpoint of the within the city limits. Unlike the more popular (and lower) San Nicol\u00e1s viewpoint, there’s not much here other than the church that gives the viewpoint its name. (In other words, you have to bring your own beer.)<\/p>\n Last but not least, I encountered some street flamenco in Granada:<\/p>\n![\"Monastery](\"http:\/\/pxl8.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0951-225x300.jpg\")
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