travels from a gypsy: Run On

Saludos de Sevilla!

I really need to start keeping up with this blog more often than every 2 weeks or so! I guess I just have so much going on here in Seville it is hard to remember to blog about it every week! But I will start trying to update it more!

So I figured instead of basically telling everyone every single detail of the past two weeks of my life I figured I would keep to a specific subject. I do apologize if this seems off topic but do not worry there is a point :) I do not know if many of you know this but in the past year and a half I started to run. I used to HATE it. Honestly at one point I would have rather poked my eyes out than run. But things change :) I started running with my sister last summer and then moved to Houston and I continued to run but not as much as I would have liked because its harder to force yourself to get up and do it if you don't have another person there pushing you. Anyways I moved back home from Houston in August right before I came here and me and my sister started running again and I loved it. Ok here comes the point of the story...I LOVE running here in Seville. I was going to join a gym and thought WHY? I have this beautiful city waiting for me right outside my door. Why would I want to run on a treadmill in a stinky gym instead of passing the cathedral every day on my run.

Sometimes I run along the Guadalquivir Rio which is absolutely amazing and the other day I probably had the best run of my life. I decided I would go run in Parque Maria Luisa which is a HUGE park here in Seville, very beautiful! I also remembered the Plaza de Espana was also right across from the park and I had not seen it since last summer when it was being renovated. So I came around the corner and there it was. Something hit me while I was running I just literally had to stop and stare. This is my life now. I am living out my dream and all this adrenaline hit me at once. It was an amazing moment. So after standing in the middle of the street for 5 minutes I continued on my run. So after I finished I figured I would go have a seat in the Plaza de Espana and just chill for a bit before I ran back to my apartment. Once again I had that feeling and then one of my favorite songs came on my iPod Owl City's "Meteor Shower". I began to feel so blessed to be where I was. The only reason I am living out my dream right now is because of God and his blessings. Everything seems to be going good right now which makes me feel like this is where I am truly meant to be right now.

"I can finally see that you're right there beside me"
"I am not my own. For I have been made new"
"Please don't let me go" "I desperately need you"
Owl City "Meteor Shower"

Those lyrics and that moment made me feel good about my decision to live here. As much as I miss my friends and family and all the things I love most about Texas and America in general I LOVE my life here in Seville. I am not alone in this. God never gives us a task we can't handle.

I sat in the plaza for a good 20 minutes and got strange looks A. I was wearing my work out clothes so I am guessing that might be the reason. However there is a downside to running here. The creepy "que guapa" calls I get while I am running. These creepy old man apparently think if they yell "que guapa" while I am running I will instantly stop and actually show interest? Ugh that is Europe in general for you. I have learned to ignore it.

Just wanted to share that with everyone. It's crazy all that came from my normal evening run. Needless to say there are days when I sometimes feel lazy and don't want to run, normally on the weekends I tend to be the laziest haha but during the week after I have had my run I feel so much better.

Check out my picture below of the Plaza de Espana.