Alright, on Monday this week we got to go to this really cool festival called Las Fallas (pronounced Fayas) in Valencia. Las Fallas lasts for the whole weekend and consists of giant fallas (papier-mache statues) made by artists for this festival. Many of the fallas have some sort of religious or political significance. Most of the streets in the city of Valencia were blocked off and the fallas were set up in the plazas and street-corners for everyone to look at. It is also a national holiday so there was no class and many people had the day off from work. There are several firework displays that go off during the day and they are extremely loud. There were also firecrackers being sold all over the place and kids were constantly setting them off in the streets. There were also food trucks all over the place selling fried foods, especially buñuelos which are a certain type of churro specifically made for the fallas festival. There were also street performers all over the place singing, making music, dancing, and posing for pictures. Starting at 10pm they lit the fallas on fire and we got to watch them all burn down! The last ones were finishing around 2am. We then got on our bus and went back to Alicante and had class bright and early the next morning!
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