Vistas de Oviedo

Right now I’m getting settled in Oviedo…figuring out my class schedule and making arrangements for my internship at San Ignacio. On Monday morning, we walked about a half hour to school together, where they herded all of the American students into a lecture hall so that we could watch a presentation on the program here and take a Spanish placement test. After class on Tuesday, we went on a tour of Oviedo with a whole bunch of other international students. It was great because we got to meet a bunch of people and take pictures of everything.

Today, we went with the same group to hike up one of the mountains just outside the city to the statue of Jesus. When I was in Taxco, Mexico last summer we did the same thing, but we took a taxi (and by taxi I mean a mini-van with no doors) as far up the mountain as we could. This time we walked all the way from the center of Oviedo, through the outskirts of town, and along the side of the road through the woods for about 2 hours. Along the way we saw a small palace and church from the 9th century. We got to the top just in time for a gorgeous sunset, and the views were great.