Sunday, March 23, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Más Fotos
okay, those were more of the Fireworks, the Plaza de Toros (bull fighting plaza) in Valencia, and the last one was of a Ninot, here's more of the ninots....
Another Fireworks Video
the video worked, so here's the other one, all the smoke that you see is from the fireworks... I even got a tiny little capsule/piece of a firework, all the pieces and lots of ash were falling down on us, it was quite entertaining... I really felt like I was experiencing war during this fireworks exposition, I can assure all of you that I probably won't be enlisting. I believe that i screamed and jumped like 10 feet in the air every time that they set one off. But it was really a lot of fun, I loved it! Hope you enjoy the videos
Pre Las Fallas Craziness!
Okay, so yesterday the school went into Valencia to watch the beginning of 2 weeks of craziness that encompass Las Fallas. Las Fallas is the festival that Valencia is famous for, I need to do some more research on the actual origins and significance of the festival, but one can easily do that on google or wikipedia. What I know about the festival is that the wonderful people of Valencia dedicate quite a bit of their time in a year to constructing these statues called Ninots, the ones I saw were not that big, but I think that they can be larger. Then after two weeks of parading these statues around they burn them. Another thing that encompasses Las Fallas is fireworks, lots of them. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, everyday for two weeks in the main plaza of Valencia the crazy Spaniards have one of the most illegal display of fireworks I have ever seen or felt. It was one of the loudest and earth shattering things that I have ever experienced. I literally felt like I was reenacting the Civil War (the booming of the cannons) or Hiroshima (the atomic bomb). It was intense. I am thankful that I was covering my ears otherwise I would have left there deaf. Anyways it was a lot of fun, good times in crazy Spain.... I will attempt to post a video.
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