Madrid Art Trip 4/16 - 4/18

Trip to Madrid! Just for fun, my program offers its students the opportunity to be in one of several 'interest groups' that focus on various aspects of Spanish culture (sports, food, cinema, international relations, etc.) I am in the modern art interest group, so all semester we have been going to see various examples of modern art around Sevilla. It has been really interesting and we've seen so many cool things, along with a couple of extremely 'modern' art forms that were a litlte bit puzzling. The interest groups all take a trip at the end of the semester, payed for the the program. My group went to Madrid to see the city and tour the Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen Museums. We took the AVE (Spain's high-speed train) to Madrid and stayed in a ridiculously nice hotel for the weekend, with an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet! Spain doesn't really do breakfast besides a piece of toast or two so we were all very excited to eat a USA-style breakfast, complete with pancakes. The boys in the group put away entire plates of pancakes while all of the Spaniards in the restaurant watched them in awe. But besides the breakfast buffet we did many other equally exciting things in Madrid. It was my first real visit to Spain's capital city, and I was very impressed. Ángel, our amazing group leader and professor, gave us a walking tour of the city, as well as a tour through each museum we went to. I swear that man knows everything. The three museums were very different from each other but I loved them all. It was incredible to get to see so many amazing works of art in person.