Here in Spain the spring break coincides with Easter, or Semana Santa, the holy week. I had this entire week off of school and the coming Monday. Our house here has seemed to be really full until now. This morning my host dad’s mother left. She had been here since I got back from Italy (almost 2 weeks) because she was a little sick and couldn’t be living alone. Last weekend, I had another exchange student from Pamplona come and stay with me. He had to take the A.C.T. on Saturday, but the rest of the weekend we hung out. My host cousins came over a few times and spent the night once. So overall, the house has been quite full. Today and tomorrow it will be the normal five of us, and on Monday some family friends from Mexico are coming.

All over Spain there have been parade/processions for the holy week. The processions consist of people carrying huge figures of the Jesus on a cross or other religious figures. There are a lot of people who dress up in the typical robes of Semana Santa. This robes look exactly like the Ku Klux Kan. Wikipedia even said that the KKK uniforms originated from this Semana Santa robes.

When school begins on Tuesday, I will three more weeks of school. I am going to Barcelona for an extended weekend at the end of April and we will see what other travels I can procure. Jumanji, which I seem to have never watched, is about to begin and my family says that it is mandatory to have seen it in their family.