The Matt Faus Blog

Instead of heading to Milan, Italy all by her lonesome, Ashley decided to come visit me in Valencia before she started her study abroad program. So, she came in on Sunday and then left Thursday morning. It was a little hectic for me since I had just barely gotten settled in and “down to business” with work and studies, and then she comes and distracts the daylights out of me.  However, it was a great time and we were able to see quite a bit of the city while she was here.

Sunday was a long day because she missed the train that would have brought here at 3:30pm, and didn’t make it until 5:30pm. I had gone downtown early anyway to look around and stuff, so after waiting from 11am that morning, I was ready to get out and do something. We went down to the beach and ate at a place called Comeida Verde – The Green Fairy. At least, that’s what I think it’s called. Afterwards, we just strolled along the beach for a little bit.

Monday was rather uneventful – I tried to work and went to class since we had made a transition to a new group. We went out to eat that night, but it wasn’t too memorable. Ashley was still stumbling quite a bit with her Spanish, so the communication barrier posed some problems.

Tuesday night was fun because we went to a salsa dancing lesson with several people with from my class, and then hung out and talked until 2:30am afterwards. I’m definitely glad I went to that as I made quite a few friends that I will probably be spending a good amount of time with as the summer progresses.

I kind of took the day off from work on Wednesday and we went downtown to walk around and take pictures. I’ve uploaded them to my gallery, so take a look. We ate dinner at a pizzeria where a drunken homeless guy was walking around acting goofy. The restaurant owner kicked him off twice, but he kept coming back. He wasn’t really causing much harm, so I thought it was pretty funny. Dinner and a show! Another weird thing that happened was when we went to get some ice cream after dinner we stopped in a convenience store and the people who owned the store were Asian (Korean, maybe?), and we conversed in Spanish. It was just a little weird hearing Asians speak Spanish.