Palma de Mallorca

So after our group trip to Morocco we had a week of vacation time and we could travel to where ever we wanted. A couple of my friends and I chose to go to Palma de Mallorca (a Spanish island to the east). Here we just relaxed and had no sense of a time frame. It was an amazing vacation because since arriving to Granada on September 5th we had a strict time framed schedule we had to follow, consisting of classes, meetings, and family meal times.

We stayed in amazing hostel and met some really cool people. There are a few people that I actually want to stay in contact for a long time. Its funny how people from completely different countries, different cultures, different primary languages, can come together and click as if they have known each other for years. For example I met this girl Kayatta, she reminded me so much Kara. For those of you who know Kara and I's relationship you know that her and I are opposite but yet we mesh so well, to the point where people don't believe that we are even friends let alone bestfriends. Kayatta is from Australia and she had been traveling the world for 5 months when i meet her. She quite her job at home and took off on this amazing adventure of hers. She has now currently finished her journey and now has a permindent residence in UK liverpool and also has a job there. 

The other person I met was Steven. He is French Canadian. He works for the Canadian coast guard. (side note... he sees polar bears on a regular basis... oh cool!!!) Steven reminded me of the boys on drumline with me in high school... goofy, but trust worthy. Steven was on a long trip too, but only a month. The way his work functions is a month on and a month off. He was a very intelligent man. Besides all his traveling he was very knowledgeable because of his job on the coast guard and the things he has experienced due to that. Just a very interesting person to talk to. 

On the last night before Kayatta and Steven left for Barcelona, my friend Alex and I had the most amazing life talk with them on the hostel's balcony. It is a conversation/night I will never forget. 

Besides those two, there was the hostel manager - Olly. He was a very interesting person as well. Olly's life both current and past are both very interesting. Olly is a Buddhist. He travels to Thailand every year for months at a time. However when he isn't in Thailand he lives in the hostel. Olly basically told us that he lived a not so good life and  then he traveled to Thailand just for the Hell of it and Buddhism saved him. Now he makes good smart chooses, eats healthy for the sake of his body and meditates for a full hour every morning. My favorite thing about Olly though is that he called me Colorada instead of Lauren. Which means "beautiful redhead", I actually don't even know if he knew my real name... lol (Don't worry it was a cultural thing, nothing was meant behind it. lol)

Okay Okay enough about all the people Lauren.... Right? lol ok here comes the pictures with explanations below. :) Enjoy!!    

The clearest water I have ever seen 

 

When in Spain... you see a lot of Cathedrals 

This was on my bucket list... They felt so weird.. lol But I am so happy that I did it!!

 

Cliff jumping! I don't have a picture of my actually jumping, but at least you can see that I made it to the bottom alive! Also another cool thing is that in order to get back up to the top of the cliff I had to swim through a cave.