July 2: The Tortoise

We woke up to a tortoise outside our window, crawling across the neighbor's porch. So cute!

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Anyway, we had already woken up late so we couldn't spend too much time appreciating the tortoise. My roommate and I had told ourselves that we would run every day before school, and today our plan was to run to the park and explore, but that didn't go so well. We quickly realized that we had not listened well enough when our host mom told us the directions, absolutely no idea where we were going when we left the house. Instead, our morning run ended up being a run in circles up and down the street.

It was a scorching day, so a few of us decided to go to the pool for the first time. Chris had suggested that we go to a pool across the Río Tormes, and had even drawn abstract circles and lines on a Salamanca map to show us exactly where to go.