Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The areas I've frequented the most so far...

So I finally managed to get a chance to take one outdoor photo of the university, here is the front of the campus as you first enter it. The building where my classes actually take place is not shown here but I'll get a picture of it later. It's an older building that was originally used as a garrison for the troops of the Spanish army during World War II.







I did manage to take a picture of the lobby of the building where I have classes even though I don't have an outside shot yet. This is what you see once you enter.







This is the street that is essentially one of the bar districts, about every door you see on either side leads into a different bar.





This one bar named La Caja Negra, or The Black Box, is one that I've been frequenting because of their music choice and it's proximity to where I live. Also now if I go in on certain days of the week I get free drinks here and there because I became acquainted with the bartender by trading mp3s. One of the times I was first visiting this bar I noticed they were playing the music through a computer hooked up to the bar's huge stereo, so I told the bartender how I brought my external hard drive with me to Spain with my 130 GB of music files and that I could let him browse it.





So the next week after that, which was a few days ago, I returned with my hard drive and hooked it up to the bar's computer. While doing this I asked if I could install a DJing program on the computer and the bartender said that was fine, so I commenced to mix music and play around with the program on their computer while having it play through the bar's stereo while there were other patrons there. It was a lot of fun because I got to pick the music I wanted to hear at the bar because I was the one in control of the system for once, and while I DJed for the bar for a bit the bartender would just give me and my friend beers and didn't let us pay for any of them which of course was great as well.




So, so far it's only been a week and I'm starting to get to know the locals finally. I'm also not getting lost on my way to my usual places now, as long as I take the same route. I don't have classes tomorrow because of my schedule so maybe I'll get a chance during the day to take some pictures of the area around where I live in the city.










1 comment:

SteveDad said...

I think it's great that you hooked up with the bartender and are getting free beers for MP3's!!
By the way, your bog is really god and I mean that. Grandpa logs on frequently and sends me e-mails on how much he likes it.
I'm in southern Illinois this week assessing historical sites including where Abraham Lincoln lived. Cool to get paid for touring historical places.
Love, Dad