Unforgetable Night

Ok so Saturday was an amazing day. I will try and go into lots of detail! haha
In the afternoon we had our flamenco performance. We all dressed in black and wore red flowers in our hair. It was so fun. We had professional musicians and everything. Our flamenco teacher was so cute, she also brought us flowers and yummy snacks and made us flamenco CD's. She was so proud of us. I would say most of IES came to our performance and it went really well. No major mess ups or anything. We felt so accomplished afterwards haha. That night we also had to go to a real flamenco show for class. It was in the Sacramonte neighborhood and the theater had a glass background that opens up to the Alhambra. It was the best performance of flamenco that I've seen yet. It was the most traditional and I think thats why I liked it. Right after that a student in our program, Seth, also had a performance. Seth is a jazz musician and found a group in Granada who he could play with and they had a performance in the Right near the flamenco theater. It was held in a little ( and i mean ITSY) cave bar. There was probably enough room for like 50 people but CRAMPPPPPED. It was oh so Granadino though. Lots o IES people showed up to this as well and we all enjoyed lots of Jazz. They were really good, and Seth is hilarious to watch play the Bass...he is quite the character, and sings along with his playing. It was super crowded though so a bunch of left during their break and went to a little bar just up the rode. It was also super tiny and in a cave and could only fit about the same amount of people, but it was shaped differently. There were like 2 rooms, one with the bar and a few tables and one kind of around the corner in a little circular nook. It was Carrie and I and a few other of our friends. We got some drinks and food, but then Carrie and I started to hear some music coming from the corner room. It was flamenco and we recognized it and went to look. It was a room filled with about 20 people ( I would say 50 years old and up) sitting around in a circle drinking gin and tonic. One old man had a guitar and was playing flamenco, and there was this big fat man who would stand up and sing some flamenco songs. They were all yelling OLE and cheering him on. A lady got up and started dancing in the middle, and Carrie and I started clapping along because we knew what Palo (the type of rhythm). They noticed and started yelling at us to come and dance....so we did!!!! We told them how we just took a flamenco class and we danced in the middle of their circle! They were cheering us on and telling us what to do and they were so excited! haha they thought it was so cute. It was a true Granadino experience. It felt like something truly spanish that I could be involved in. They kept saying "isn't spain better, don't you wanna stay here.." stuff like that. haha it was so funny.
After that awesomeness we decided to go to a Salsa club. We danced a little salsa and had some fun. Then we went Hannigans and Sons (an Irish pub that everyone always goes to). Lots of people were there and they played lots of fun music. We sang and danced around. We stayed till the pub closed and by then it was about 3:30/4. Since it was like our last major night out in Granada, we decided to hit up the discoteca and went to Granada 10! It was only my second time going to this dance club so I was pretty excited. The only problem was that we didn't want to pay to go iin since it's 10 euros. You can usually find passes to get in for free but some how Carrie and I were the only ones who missed out on that...we walked up with our friend Will, who had a pass, showed the bouncer dude his pass and just kind of quickly walked in! SO we got in for free and it was awesome. They had put up lights because its christmas season and there were a TON of people there. We danced around for a bit and then finally around 5 started to head on home. Carrie, Anna and I walked home together. We went outside of Granada 10, started to walk and these 3 spanish guys just came over and picked us up...little picked us up and started like throwing us in the air like PSU students do when we get a touchdown! So we started walking with them a bit, making it clear we were just going home to sleep. It was funny talking with them, but when it was time for Carrie and I to split with Anna we didn't want to leave her alone with them, so we kept walking with her. We were about half way to her home at this point when one of the guys asks me where this other discoteca is. I point him in the direction and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, they bonk carrie on the head, and then SMACK Anna and I on the head with umbrellas and RUN away, like sprinting. Anna described it as " they bonked us on the head like we were those squirrels at an amusement park". We were shocked. We had no idea what happened. We just got bonked. haha we were like freaked out yet laughing and I dunno. It was so weird. So we ended up taking a Cab home from there to avoid any other "mishaps" haha. It was quite the evening, quite the day really. One I will never forget.