Bye Emily!

It was really great having Emily in town for 2 weeks.

She leaves tomorrow (sad face.)

Here's me and Emily in Isabel Bayon's class.

Teresa came to Sevilla!!!!

Actually Chusman & Alvaro are here with me too!

1st day of bienal

My 1st show was El Lebrijano. It was sold out but I did what my momma always taught me to do - go to the show and buy from scalpers!

We got like 10th row & it was great!

Photos from California in August

NONA'S 70th Birthday!

Dylan jumping - wait for it to load - it's so cute!

Harry Connick Jr's biggest fans...lame.

Hahaha - just kidding! (Sort of.)

Spain reunited in Calif. - where's MAR?!

The cleverest kid, and Tariq.

Funny faces

BJ's BDAY!

And there were princesses at the quinceañera

(one was sad she didn't get to carry the flowers.)

Concha & ME!

So on Friday I went to La Carbonería. It was the 1st night of a photography exhibit that I knew my teacher Juan was included in. So some friends and I thought it would be worth seeing. The exhibit showcases photos of several prominent teachers and guitarists currently contributing to Sevillian flamenco. I studied with 3 of the 6 teachers they profiled - one of them was Concha Vargas. AND, low & behold, I'M IN A PHOTOGRAPH!!!! It's not super flattering but I was super thrilled. And the next night one of my friends told me she saw me in the photo which I got another thrill over. I'm going to email the photographer and see if I can see the other photos from that day. How cool!

September classes

September is the last month I have until my school starts up again. So, to prepare, I'm taking as many classes as I can...well as I can pay for. This week I have an hour a day with Juan de los Reyes. Next week I will have two hours - one with Juan and then another with his daughter Saray de los Reyes. The 3rd week I will have a 2 hour-a-day class with Ana Morales. And the last week will be with Juan again for one hour a day. He does just taconeo for 40 minutes everyday so my feet are once again bruised-up fleshy blobs. Hopefully they'll feel better by the time school starts.

Las Grecas

Renee & Verity - you will love them!

Las Grecas are two sisters who were popular here for a moment in the early 70's - Borja introduced them to me when I first got here. Their moves, their voices and their songs are all so good! And they come complete with a crazy tragic ending; one of them went nuts, tried to kill the other one & eventually was found wandering the streets and died. Not a happy ending but so lovable and fantastic. I think there needs to be a movie about them.

Here's the video of my favorite song of theirs.

Guess which one went crazy? (Clue: the cuter one)

More Portugal

Portugal deserves more photos; it was so beautiful.