21st July

Today and throughout my placement at Matallana i was helping Rebeca gather information to make cards for residents from Spain to visit all the tourist places in Valladolid, these include; Matallana, Riosecco Chanel,Provincial Wine Museum, Roman Villas Museum, Book Town,Joaquín Díaz and Valley of the 6 Senses. If they apply for these then they can access all of these tourist spots as local residents. The peice of paper that gets filled then gets put into a database and then this information gets put onto a card. I was helping Rebeca write the address´s on the envelopes. The way the spanish write the address´s are very different to how we do in England for example;

Gouzalez Fericandy José Antonio (NAME)
Miguel Deliby No 42 (STREET NUMBER)
ISCAR 47Y2O (TOWN7POSTCODE)
VALLADOLID (PROVINCE)

In Spain when writing there name they write there last night first followed by there middle and then there last name, this got very confusing but after doing alot of envelopes i soon got used to it

Carah and Gemma were in the flour factory all day helping on tours and tourists. Whenever anybody see´s Carah in the sun they shout SHADOW NOW at her haha
Roberto came at lunch and told them his wife had prepared tortillas or us. It was beautiful as i got to try it too because there was enough to feed the family, i was glad i came home for dinner that day because it was lovely.
I went to sunbathe after having something to eat, Gemma washed the pots and Carah did the washing while Sam was snoring his head off! zzzzz

Tonight we went to a candle lit ceromany at San Francisco old monestry, lots of people of all ages where performing with violins, it was beautiful and so surreal and it was something that will always stick with me. At home these could never happen as there would be always one person who would spoil it, everybody had lots of respect for this event.



All the streets leading up the to monastry where candle lit it was beautiful