October 23 - Archive of the Indies with Albert

Today, Albert met me at the end of class and we walked over to the Archive of the Indies.  I had been before and was excited to visit again.  Sadly, the engineering exhibit with all of the infrastructure documents (for bridges, roads, buildings, ....) was no longer on display.  But we did manage to see the movie (complete with English subtitles) that provided a history of the building. Also, we spent some time checking out the many works by the artist Murillo which are currently on display.

After our visit to the archives, we enjoyed the warm weather on our walk home.  We took a quick detour through one of the MANY small parks around the city.  In addition to the obligatory statue, there we lots of folks enjoying the lovely day on the benches throughout the park.

This evening, after dinner I headed out to my weekly intercambio.  There were more than 30 students there this evening with a pretty even split between Spaniards learning English and folks from other countries learning Spanish.  We played a number of rounds of TABOO with the English students giving clues in English and the Spanish students (like me) guessing in Spanish and then the other way around.  It was a little crazy with everyone playing at once, but we had a good time.