Danza Vertical

 (Sorry for the delay in posts. I meant to post this a week ago, but I was having problems with uploading the video. Then, I took my first trip since I've been in Spain!! I went to Madrid to celebrate Halloween (more on that later), and literally have been recovering all week. More posts to come very soon!)

In honor of what would have been Picasso's 130th birthday, there was a celebration in the Plaza de la Merced, which is where his childhood home is located. They offered free tours of his casa natal, art classes for kids in the plaza, and that night there was a free show of danza vertical at the casa natal.

Even though danza vertical, seemed pretty straight forward, vertical dancing, I was absolutely blown away by the performance I saw. There were four dancers who literally were hanging off of the side of the building, attached only by ropes from roof. It reminded me of repelling except the dancers had costumes, and were kind of telling stories, and oh....there was no mat, cushion, pillow, OR anything on the ground below them to protect them!

The dances were choreographed with music and lights, and while the first couple of dances were beautiful, similar to the works of the Picasso, the dances got weirder and weirder as the night went on.

Day 2

Even though I was talking all of that stuff yesterday about how I wasn't tired even though I had been awake for a couple of days, when I finally went to sleep...it was a different story. I had plans to go apartment hunting with a girl I met at the hostel at 10 this morning, but I definitely didn't wake up until 1:30 this afternoon ;)

Since I got a late start, I just started looking for apartments on the internet, and calling to see if they were still available. Most of them had already been rented, or were too far out of the center. Luckily, the girl I met in the hostel, Andrea, has quickly become a friend and apartment hunting life saver. She has been here a few days, and has already been to about eight apartments, so she has seen what is out there.

I tagged along as she visited an apartment with a great price and perfect location in the center of Malaga; but just like everything else, if it sounds too good to be true, it is. Although the apartment had a large, open, living room with french doors made out of glass leading to a balcony, the kitchen, rooms, and bathrooms were very small. 

Luckily, we now have a lead on an apartment from one of the guys who works at the hostel, and we hope to go see it tomorrow. After apartment hunting all day, I'm going to try to go to dinner with some other Auxiliares who are also here in Malaga, and go to a salsa club tonight with Andrea. 

Dinner and salsa lessons...sounds like a great night :)