Festival Activites

This week in Salamanca people have been celebrating the Ferrias, which means that there are two weeks of festival. There are concerts every night, dance shows, street acts, cassettas open on the streets (which are mini bars that serve drinks and tapas). There are literally hundreds of people roaming around.

I took a brief video of some of the simple street action... here are some links to the videos:

(They are integrated in my photo album, so you can view more

. However, I will include links in this entry to specific photos and videos in it, so I'd recomend reading this to get the story behind most of them.)

Video of People Dancing in the Plaza (somewhat spontaneously)

Video Exemplifying the Outrageous Amount of People in the Street

I went to several concerts this week, including a Celtic/Spanish band called La Bandina). It included an electric bagpipe along with trombone, soprao sax, bongo drums, trumpet, and acordian. It was very entertaining. Here is some amusing footage of them dancing on the Stage set up in the Plaza...

Video One: Acordian Dance

Video Two: Cool Song

I also went on lots of walks, and found the Roman Bridge, (Puenta Romana? no se.) I took lots of pictures in and around it, and also included it on my run that I took last Tuesday.

I also attended a Flamenco concert which yeilded lots of guitar music and dancing. There were far too many people in front of me, and even more pushing me out of the way so they could get a better look. I was a bit peeved and went on a mild internal rant about how rudeness and inconscientiousness might be a cultural universal sometimes. (The group of teenagers who inspired this thought process also were smoking in a densely packed area. My roommate has a scar from a cigarette burn from a situation like this one. sigh.)

Anyway: Guitar Music Here:

And now it is the weekend and I have tests on Monday.

This evening I am going to interview to see if I can get a job (!!) teaching elementary children English. We'll see if I need a visa for this.

Es Todo.