23rd June - San Juan

Today I got in touch with Jose, a guy from Valencia who did an exchange programme with Ian (kiwi friend of mine). He invited me to go to the party at the beach which is called San Juan. Which is a party where pretty much everyone go and it's held at the beach.

When I went there, the beach was PACKED! Literately. And there were lots of music, bonfires and ah! Gigantic party ever! Jose introduced me to some of his school friends, who just happened to be ... Spanish! (Finally I made some Spanish friends! Yus :D Big applause to Ian here) We've talked alot and drank and it was one of the best times i had in Valencia! People were so ridiculously friendly ay, they just came up to me and said "Hola, soy ...." and almost everyone did that. It wouldnt of happened in NZ I dont think.

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At San Juan, I met up with my language school buddies too which was so cool. One of the English girls (Clara) told me tradition of San Juan.
First of all, no one really knows what it is about. You make bonfire everywhere and keep the fire going. You go into the water. Make wishes as you jump over waves and they'll come true for sure! Then after that, you jump over bonfire (little one of course) and make wishes then too. It was so much fun jumping around everywhere!

Me jumping over the bonfire.

We decided to go home at around 6 in the moring. On the way back, we got stopped by this group of baddy Spanish thugs with disgusting mullets (yes i had to add that). They said something like "do you have something nice?" or "is that gold you are wearing?". We got out of the situation thanks to Jose's cousin Fernando.
We tried to get taxi home but there were all occupied. So we thought we could take the train but it was packed, it was making v.unhealthy noise cuz of large number of people and it was going really really slow. So in the end we walked home.

Just wanna say big thanks to Jose for being real nice and introducing people, and Ian for giving Jose's contact info! Cheers!