Living in Spain as Foreigner: Holy Week Vacation in Alicante

Hello guys, it's been a long time to write here. I was spending the first week of the Holy Week in Alicante with my friends. The road to Alicante was so long journey, as you can see at this map, from Bilbao it takes considerable time. This time it took almost 10 hours, I guess, I'm not able to remember exactly how long because I spent most of time sleeping on the bus to kill the time.

We departed early in the morning and arrived in the evening in Alicante safely. It was the first time to be in there for me, but I didn't receive any special impression from the center because it was no more than normal that I can imagine in any city. Anyway, as soon as arrived we went to the train station to pick up the cousin of Eider, one of my friend who has a chale near a beach. Then took a tram to the Av.Naciones, where we stayed during vacation.

The first day we didn't do anything because we arrived late, had to unpack our baggages, prepared dinner and took a rest. The next morning we went to buy some foodstuffs to Mercadona which is a big supermarket chain in Alicante (maybe in other cities too, but I've never seen it before in Bilbao or in Salamanca) and has lots of cheap and fresh products. We spent almost 80 euros to buy stuffs, beers, coke and wine for Kalimotxo, turky, cheese, bread, potato chips, chocolate icecream.... and more and more. Every time I tell this to my friends (especially to guys) they say "Why did you need so much food?". Who cares? You never understand. We were 4 girls, we need things to satiate our stomach and our mouth. We need more things to have fun than you guys!

Anyway, all we did during vacation is Eating, Drinking, Taking a nap, Watching series (especially How I Met Your Mother and the Simpsons), and when it wasn't raining we went to the beach and did sunbathing. It was the perfect weather to tan! Besides, in order not to make the bikini marks, we took off bras and it made me feel so free. If I had been in Korea I'd never have done that, owing to the people who take your pics with Wide-Angle Lens Digital SLR Camara and upload them online. They're so annoying. In Busan, we have many beaches where a lot of people come, and there are several guys who are taking bikini girl pictures without permission. So we need some guards to get rid of them from our vacation.

After all I could enjoy the sunbathing enough and got light brown skin that I always wanted to have, although for some people I still look yellow or little bit white.

As we were 4 girls, the one who feel like cooking prepared plates every time we ate. Once I made Japchae, one of my favorite Korean food which consist of transparent noodles, soybean sauce, sesame oil, meat and vegetables. But sadly we didn't have all of these ingredients, and Ainhoa doesn't like soybean sauce. So I made it in informal way and the result was totally SUCKS! It wasn't even close to the original. Even the noodle looked like worms, because it originally has color grey. I tried everything to make it look better but without soybean sauce I couldn't handle on it at all. I guess it was hard enough for my poor friends to eat it, even I doubted if I could finish my plate.

And when it was raining, we just kept eating and drinking the most of time, and when we weren't doing that we stuck on the sofa watching series or girl's movies whole day eating popcorn or potato chips, drinking kalimotxo or beer also. Sometimes we started to drink from 3 or 4 p.m and got drunk. It was amazing we still could be hungry and thirsty with all the food and beer that we had taken before. The most surprising fact is knowing we were full enough we didn't stop to, because we were in the middle of VACATIONS!

And guess how many movies and series we've watched! We've finished the all season of 'How I met your mother', two season of 'The Simpsons', 'Sex and the City', some Spanish TV series and several movies. Here is the list of the movies we watched.

Bridget Jones's Diary 1,2

Sex and the City

The Jane Austen Book Club

Saving Grace

Thank you for smoking

El Crimen Ferpecto (Spanish movie)

Cafe Solo o Con Ellas

Tesis

And from that, as I couldn't sleep well at night I watched more movies alone. Actually, I don't like girl's movies at all, especially about romance, love, sort of those ticklish things. But I didn't know why because I didn't use to watch them, but scary, thriller, action and SF are my favorites. When I was suffering from insomnia I used to watch horror movies such as Scream to take a deep sleep. Anyway when we were watching some girl's movies I realized the reason why I didn't like them at all, even why I hate them. It's because they hurt my feeling! Every time I saw a lovely couple in the movie I had to say "That's really bad lie, totally shit because it doesn't exist in the real world!". Oh poor me, it really hurt my heart to see a love story, indeed. I felt like throwing the remote to the TV even though the film was blowing my friend's mind.

But except the movie part the vacation was perfect! I really had needed to disconnect myself from the real world, escape from everything that made my shoulder heavy. And as the result of the travel I'm full recharged, even I have 3 more days till the course starts. I've back to Bilbao 2 days before and during two days I didn't do anything. I'm still on VACATIONS!

Here are some pics taken in Alicante.

In the beach where we went when the weather was nice!

When we went to watch the football match of Copa del Rey between Barca and R.Madrid. The madrilenos won the game and I got so angry with it, but the next morning after heard the news that S.Ramos broke the trophy it really made me LMAO.