Halloween and the first week of November

Hola todos,

so last weekend was Halloween! I dressed up as a devil...just some horns and a trident! It was a very easy costume. Spain celebrates Halloween but not like we do in the States...I would say maybe 10% kids/students get dressed up and the most I saw were Americans! But we still had a pretty good time, no candy though . I mainly hung out with my intercombio during Halloween. I went to her place and then we went out to get a drink (she was dressed as a witch). We went to this really modern bar called En Cuadro...which means like Squares. It was super modern with white, black and red colorings and everything in squares. The lights were fun and the atmosphere was nice. There were a few good costumes going on like this one guy dressed up as the dude from a Nightmare before Christmas. After that we went to the Mexican restaurant where her boyfriend works. We got there a little before 1 because thats when it closes and we hung out there for awhile and chatted with his work buddies. Then all of us went out to another pub and hung out some more. It was fun cause I was speaking Spanish like all night with Spaniard! so that was great. Around 2:30 I went to meet up with Carrie and some other people and we finally went to Camborio, the disco in the cave..they have been before but I hadn't! The atmosphere was great, especially for Halloween, but for some reason tonight the people, mainly the guys, were more annoying and grabby than usual. I think they were just more drunk because of Halloween and expecting Americans to be easier or something... I kind of thought it was annoying and didn't have the greatest time at the club, but I am still glad I finally went there. It has an AMAZING view of the Alhambra!!! So thats pretty much all I did that weekend. Oh I also went to the Alhambra for another visit with my Art History class. We have one more visit of the Alhambra coming up too. It is a pretty spectacular place! OH and that weekend was crazy rainy. Like more than Granada usually gets crazy raining and ALLLLLLL day Halloween it rained, and hard. very annoying.
Anyway, then was ELECTION DAY! We were all very excited for it. We had an all-night slumber party at the IES center. We all had our pj's/sweats and computers and we had a big projection screen of CNN and we just hung out all night and watched. It was quite exciting around 5 am when the big win was announced. I am still recovering from the lack of sleep. Yesterday I took 3, 1 hour naps!!! All of Europe is quite exciting, at least Spain is...I think I only met 1 Spaniard who liked McCain..funny huh!? A few of the kids in the IES program are Republicans so they were disappoinnted but I would say the majority of us were quite ecstatic!
We've been doing lots of work! so much homework. But yesterday I went to another Spanish movie about the Naked Years after Franco...its called Los Años Desnudos. I didn't understand much, but it was interesting
Tomorrow we head to Cadiz and Jerez for 2 days. We are seeing a National Nature Preserve thing and a Winery.
Ok I have to go...I have more work i need to be doing.
Much Love
Kate