El fin de Oviedo

Oh Oviedo. How I miss thee.

So I am gone from Oviedo and I already miss it so much. But I definitely had the time of my life there and I cannot wait to get back!

My last week in Oviedo was definitely a fun one! After a great Monday night as mentioned before, the rest of the week was spent living it up as much as possible. Tuesday after classes I went out and about in Oviedo. Hit up some places around the old city and plaza de paraguas with my friend Laura and then some more of the TU crew, then of course back to al fondo to finish off the night. Wednesday was the last day of actual classes with our final exam being the next day. So I spent all night studying my butt off for that! Thursday I took my final (not too hard at all) and then handed in my final paper. After that was the preparations for the always adventurous dinner out with all the Temple crew paid for by Temple. I went over to the dorms to get ready and then made our way eventually to El Buchito which is the place we went to the first Oviedo dinner. Again, amazingggg food. I realized there that I am eating so many different things than I ever expected to even try in my life. We had an awesome grilled veggie platter, a grilled salmon/cheese/white asparagus platter, a seafood mix crab cake kinda thing that is hard to describe but amazinggg, octopus (yes I tried it, tasted awesome, but couldn´t really get over the texture), ox, black pig and lemon champagne sorbet. Plus of course unlimited sangria and thanks to certain people pulling strings with Jaime..lots of great wine too! After a 3 hour or so dinner we went out for our second to last night in Oviedo. We went on Calle Mon which is just a long street filled with tons of bars and clubs and we just hopped from one to another. It was a crazzzy night, even our prof showed up at the club, which was probably one of the best nights I had there. Friday, my last full day in Oviedo, was a sad but good day. We went to school to have our little graduation and a tiny fiesta afterwards. Some of us kinda skipped out on the fiesta and hit up the beach though. It was a great beach day, and our last experience with Gijón. After that I headed home since it was my host mamá´s birthday. I had a nice little dinner and then headed out for my last night. Pretty much everyone from the TU crew was at Al fondo´s and it was a greatttt time. Very sad though because as the night went on, more and more people would leave and we would have to say goodbye. Granted, we all go to the same school so we surely will see one another again, but it will never be in an environment like that. I had the time of my life with those people and I will miss them tremendously.

Finally Saturday morning came. The day I left Oviedo, my home away from home. I had to say goodbye to my host family which was reallly hard, I almost cried but I managed to hold it together, and I headed off to the bus station for the 12 hour bus ride to Barcelona. As we went down the highway I got my last glimpse of Oviedo and I realized how much I really loved that place and how I need to back asap.