I am so excited about going to Berlin! I leave tonight at 1:30am on a bus from Granada to Madrid (about a 5 to 5 ½ hour ride) and then fly out of Madrid to Berlin at 8:50am Wednesday morning. My Aunt Claudia already has all kinds of stuff planned for us; I believe a bus tour, boat tour, and maybe even some biking are in for this week. Then I leave Berlin around noon on Saturday to fly back into Madrid. Then I will have to take the bus back to Granada and I will probably get home around dinner time. Good thing dinner is so late here! It’s been very nice only having two days of class after an entire week off, not a bad way to ease back into school.
Easter Sunday in Spain was pretty good. In the morning I went to Iglesia Santa Domingo, a church near my school, to watch the beginning one more processional. This one was called Facundillo and was a processional led by children. It was so cute! The children were carrying the image of Jesus on their shoulders, but it was a significantly smaller float than all the previous ones. Even the image of the resurrected Jesus holding a cross was miniature compared to the images of other processionals. The image was actually tilted because they had bigger kids holding the front of it and smaller kids in the back, so Jesus was almost looking up to the sky! When the processional passed, I went to church, which was good as usual. I like it sometimes when we sing some of the same songs that I sing in church back home, like “My Jesus, He Can Move the Mountains” is “Mi Cristo, Puede Mover Montes.”