U2 360 Tour Concert!

On Sunday I was able to go to a U2 concert in San Sebastian. This was one of their last stops on their 360 tour. I didn't realize that U2 was from Ireland, and just how popular they were in Europe until I went to this concert! San Sebastian is a big city right on the border of Spain and France. The concert was held in the futbol stadium of Real Sociedad. Real Sociedad is in the highest league of futbol in Spain so they play against teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona etc. Their stadium, Anoeta,  holds about 32,000 people for a soccer game, and a lot more when there are people on where the field would be. As you can see in the picture there were a lot of people! U2 performed really well live! They sang, and spoke in English the whole concert. When they would talk in between songs there would be a translation on the huge screen above them.

The next day I took a bus back to Oviedo which was a pretty long ride, considering buses stop in many cities along the way. There were some pretty parts of the drive though, along the coast and through mountains as well. The picture on the left are of mountains that were closer to Oviedo. Upon returning to Oviedo, I had a good practice with my little girls. I had some new ones joing the team so I am up to 12 girls! There is one girl, Sara, who always gets her self all prepared to say "See you tomorrow" in English after practice. It is so cute!! Sometimes she will say "See you on Monday." I always ask her what she learned in English during school that day, but she rarely wants to tell me about it. My impression is that all my girls have to take an English class each day at their day school. I try to get them to practice with me, but they are stubborn!

I found a nice little bakery yesterday where you can get like five things for 2 Euros. The other day when some of my teammates went with me to sign up for my Spanish class, her car got towed! We were only parked for about 15 minutes. They have these little miniture tow trucks that just speed around and snatch cars, even from parallel parking spots! I don't understand how they could have even towed her car because she was in a tight spot!

Last night some of my team went to this Plaza where they had live music and a fiesta for these races. We missed the race, but there are these big set of stairs in the Plaza, and I guess people put on these huge clown-like shoes and have to sprint up the stairs and then back down. Sounds unsafe to me....I was trying to explain to my team that in general, it is not normal for people to drink on the streets in the U.S. They thought that was so weird, because every single night there are big fiestas on the streets, and everyone just buys alcohol, drinks on the street, leaves the trash there, and then make their way to the clubs and bars after. Once everyone goes into the bars, then the street cleaners come around, so by the time you come out, it looks like a brand new city! The picture above is in Plaza San Miguel with some of my teammates!

We have three more days of practices, and then we have our first League game right near Burgos, which is Southeast of us. Today is a nice sunny day, so I am going to go read in the park for a while!