a little history of Alcala

Finally I have had enough time to get around to talking about the history of this town and the university. First off, Alcala is very famous for the writer Cervantes who wrote Don Quijote the man of la mancha. We were given a tour of the school on about Monday or something and what makes up the University of Alcala is several old small school that existed in about the 1500s or the 1600s. The libraries that we went to were old cathedrals that got torn up to be libraries etc etc. The bulding here are very well maintained and are very modern to say the least. We also went to the main cathedral that was restored. It is really beautiful, a gem. Inside there are very OLD painting of i believe an archdiocis of the catholic church. The tomb takes back to the 16th century to say in the least and contains the body of the holy man himself. I will go back and takes pcitures for all of you to see, ha when I get back. I also learned that there is a destoryed cathedral where Cervantes was baptized because of the civil war in the 1930s during the facist rule of Spain. The republic and Francisco Franco are still very touchy subjects today. For our culture class we are watching a movie called La lengua de las mariposas, which translated mean the language of butterflies. We havnt finished it yet, but I will do a spìll about it later. Tomorrow we get to go to Segovia on Saturday, which has aquaducts built nearly 2000 years ago that are still standing, I should get some amazing photos. Then on Sunday we are goin to Madrid to the Prado Museum, Reina Sofia museum of comtemporary art, and the Royal Palace. Again, more photo opps for amazing pictures. Hopefully in the next few weekends some of the people around here will want to go to Toledo to see some fine swords and wonderful history, I´m a dork, can´t help it.

TO MAMA: Need a new hellokitty alarm clock, mine is fried like my straightner, but I bought a 10€ straightner, its not too bad. And also harem pants are VERY much in style.