Pueblo life and religion issues

One thing I definitely miss about California is the warm weather! In the mornings ít´s about 30 degrees and during the day about 40. I do think it´s neat though that I can see all the leaves change colors, in the park right by my classes there are huge heaps of them.I never get to see that back home because everything is always green...which I like, but I never get to see the seasons change.
A couple weeks ago I went to see the big cathedral in León with my classmates. I´ve seen so many by this point, but the one in León is really neat because it´s supposedly the cathedral with the most glass and the least stone in Europe (?), making it really fragile. We didn´t get to see it while the sun was out, but it is supposed to really gorgeous inside when the sun is shining through all the stained glass. I also went on another excursion with my classmates a couple weekends back to a few small towns called Toro, Urueña, and Don Juan de Valencia. In Toro we got to visit a winery where we saw the wine-making process and had a wine tasting. Urueña was a small medieval pueblo with old stone walls surrounding it...there we visited a musical instrument museum with a humongous collection of old and new instruments from around the world. In Don Juan de Valencia we just stopped for a quick look at a castle. That weekend was my first whole weekend in León, so I decided to take advantage and go out dancing with my friends after the excursion. It was a nice break from the pueblo, and also a ton of fun!
I was at the pueblo this weekend, which at first I wasn´t looking forward to because I tend to get really bored when there´s nothing going on. But it turned out that my host family had to go out and chop firewood for the winter! I went along with them and helped my host sister carry wood to the van (they thought handling the axe would be a bit dangerous). When my host mom first told me about it I was kind of shocked - it´s so old-fashioned! But I was excited that I was invited to help. Also this weekend, one of their mama pigs had babies! There were 13 of them born during the morning, and I went down to see them right before lunch because my host dad thought there was one more coming, but it was taking a long time and so I didn´t get to see it actually being born. But the newborn piglets were really cute! It was interesting talking to my host dad and older host sister about how they know when one of the pigs is pregnant, how many piglets are usually born, etc. It was overall an interesting weekend.
If enough people sign up, there will be an excursion to Madrid and Toledo this coming weekend and I really want to go even though I´ve been already. I really loved Toledo, plus I like going on the trips with my classmates because they´re a lot of fun and I like the guy who leads all the excursions. I´d get to see some of the same places again which I don´t mind too much...I´m excited to see the Jewish museum again because it would be a break from Catholocism. One time in my culture class we started talking about religion in Spain versus the U.S. and it made me sad because our teacher was saying that here in Spain you´re either Catholic or not Catholic...there´s no realization of other religions because Catholocism is the universal religion. Even though Judaism is a minor religion, at least in the United States there is more diversity. You see mosques, cathedrals, churches, and synagogues, whereas here you only see cathedrals. It made me feel kind of lonely...I hope to go to synagogue once I´m home for winter break. I really miss home a lot, it´s been hard being gone this semester. And I´m sad about missing Thanksgiving! One of my American friends and I are going to make thanksgiving-y food with international friends, it should be interesting. She only has 2 burners and a microwave in her apartment so we´ll see how that goes. I only have four more weekends here! I can count them on one hand and I know what my plans are for each of them...that makes me realize that I don´t have much time left. I´m going to be emotional when I leave because it´s going to be very hard but also very exciting.