Segovia

Hola,
We had a lot of events the past few days. On Thursday we had our last day of orientation classes. Thursday afternoon we went the the Museum Reina Sofia which is a modern art museum. We had a guided tour and looked at a lot of pre-Spanish Civil War art. The second most exciting thing we saw was Picasso's Guernica which he painted to bring attention to the massacre the occurred in a town called Guernica. It was huge and really interesting to see in real life because you see it in Spanish books all the time. We weren't supposed to take picures but I didn't realize that until after I took this one:

The first most exciting thing was that Robert Downey Jr. was also there. In fact, he was looking at Guernica at the same time as my group.

On Friday, NYU took us on a day trip to Segovia. It was about an hour on the bus and we went on a really long guided walking tour. I was pretty tired by the time we got back to Madrid. Anyway, here's some pictures from that.

This is the giant aquaduct that was build by the Romans and can still bring water to the city. It was pretty impressive.

This is a church that used to be a synagogue and has a lot of Muslim architecture.

This is the view from Segovia.

Castle where Queen Isabel lived.

Blurry picture of the throne where Queen Isable gave Columbus permission to explore the new world.

Dasha and me in a gazeebo. 

This is me in front of the aqueduct.

Well thats all for now. Classes start on Monday!