Last day in Cadiz 1/31/09

The last day in Cadiz was fairly uneventful. I woke up kinda late, and joined Achal and his roommate, Z (no, his real name isn’t actually “Z”, its Zachary…lol) in going to downtown Cadiz once more to get some gifts. I bought a few small things, but the prices were really high, so I ended up not buying too many souvenirs. Morocco, and the markets of Marrakech will probably be a better location to buy stuff, I hope. We ate some more snacks, and then found another wifi hotspot. I logged in, and decided to finish my application for med school. To my shock, I discovered there were parts that were not complete yet, and I got very scared. I quickly refilled the entire application (apparently it did not save properly), and got it done. Z and Achal went to get lunch, and brought back a few slices of pizza for me. I was very thankful, cuz I didn’t have enough time to come with them, as I was filling out my application. By this time, every SAS student had heard about this free wifi plaza, and there were at least 20 students in the plaza, all on their laptops. Every local that walked by just started, amused, of course, by all of us. Several times while I was there, also, some salespersons walked by, advertising internet. I was approached 3 times, and they thought I lived there. I responded in Spanish that I was only a college student from the US, and had no use of a monthly internet plan. They were surprised that I wasn’t from there, and one of them complimented me on my Spanish and said I could almost pass for a local, which was nice.

On-ship time was 1800, so at about 1500, Achal and I returned to the ship. We stopped at the wifi terminal by the port, and I tried to upload some more pictures to my website (yeah, I know that Sevilla and Cordoba are up, but Cadiz still has to be uploaded). At 1630, we left and got in line to get back on the ship. We were just in time, cuz a huge group of students came back after we got in line. We got back onto the ship, and I went to my room to relax for a while.

At 2000, the ship left Cadiz. I walked up to the top deck to take pictures, and joined everyone in waving goodbye to Spain. Thanks for the memories, Espana, I had a wonderful time. I will definitely be back soon!