Confessions of A Working Girl

So when I first got to Salamanca, I was a little confused. Every gift shop that I went into had frogs. Stuffed animal frogs, frog keychains, t-shirts with frogs on them, frog statues…etc. Upon a little research I found out that on one of the old buildings in Salamanca (one of the University buildings, in fact) among all the latice work and other beautiful architecture of the building is a frog.

It even has its own legend! It is said both that the frog is good luck, and that if you find it without help from anyone, you will get married within a year.

Anyway, I went wandering around today. When I had said that I didn’t know where the building with the frog was, Mr. Garcia had told me the general area and added, “You can’t miss it. Everyone will be looking and pointing.” He was right. It still took about ten minutes to find it, even though I was listening in on other people’s conversations to see if they’d found it yet. It’s this little frog sitting on top of a skull. It’s very easy to overlook at first, but once you find it, you can’t really lose sight of it.

On my little exploration today, I also found a statue of Christopher Columbus. I was startled, then realized that made sense. He found America on orders of Queen Isabelle of Spain, right?

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October 30th, 2010 @ 5:21 pm RIBBIT…RIBBIT…RIBBIT