Submitted by Joseph Hinton on the 2018 fall semester study abroad program in Granada, Spain…
During this week we played our final game in soccer for the CLM championship, I hiked up a mountain, and explored the Alhambra at night. Starting with our championship game on Thursday, it all came down to this and after 40 mins of play, we won 5-0! It was an amazing night with almost everyone from the program coming out including Amalia and Teresa themselves. There were pom poms, posters, and best of all our very own GRIIS jerseys that the program made for us. After we had won, everyone stormed the field and cheered and chanted because for the first time in GRIIS history, we won the championship in soccer, which felt great. The next day a group of us went out on a spontaneous hiking trip with a coordinator in the program and it was well worth the climb, we made it to the top just in time for sunset and it was nice just to stop for a second and truly realize where we were in this great big world and just take a step back and enjoy it all. Finally on Saturday, me and a buddy went inside the Alhambra at night and it was absolutely worth it. It was so much better than the day trip in that I could sit and listen to the water and the silence of the Moorish city, under the light of a full moon i and t was truly magical to walk the corridors and patios of the once great bastion. If there was one way to describe this week it would be “spur of the moment” which in the end is the best way to travel.
