my life as a foreigner: CORDOBA.

March 11, our program, CEA, took us on a trip to Cordoba and Sevilla. Cordoba is about three hours away and we spent majority of that Friday there. Of course, just our luck, it was raining all day. When our tour guide started talking I was ready to hear a different language, Spanish right?, however, the first thing that came to my mind after when he said his first sentence was "you sound like you're from London". Well oddly enough that's because our tour guide had a heavy British accent because he was from England giving a tour of a Spanish city. We have had some of the strangest tour guides. You just never know what you're gonna get next. He had been living in Cordoba now for 15 years and told us to NEVER go to England because it's a waste of time and money. I thought it was hilarious how every ten seconds he kept rippin on England. One of the boys who's in our program has a Spanish girlfriend who just happens to be from Cordoba, so it was kind of cool having her with us that day as we explored the city. Yet, for her it probably wasn't so awesome because she was getting a tour of her native city.

View of the Cathedral (used to be a mosque) from a plaza in Cordoba. This view is why many people come to the plaza.

A small mosque. Our tour guide thought it was the smallest but he was corrected.

The balls symbolize praying five times a day. If you do so, you get to be up where the star is. ( in paradise)

Outside of a Mosque where the patio is.

Inside the mini mosque where they prayed. Each mosque or cathedral has a patio outside. These are very important because before you go in to the sacred room to pray you have to first remove some your sins and walk through the patio first. Also, you were supposed to pray in closed semi dark place, yet it has to have 18 windows.

This man was very intelligent. They say if you touch his shoe his intelligence will rub off on you. i touched his shoe, I have proof that theory is wrong haha