iHola Tod@s! Que tal? Estoy muy bien! Por fin esta caliente aqui! Hace sol...todos! Esta buenisimo! Este fin de semana Laura, nuestros amig@s, y yo vamos a la playa. Que guay! Un amigo de Rueben (el chico de Laura) su familia tienen un piso alli y podemos usarlo. Hey all! I'm going to the beach this weekend! Got to work on my tan! I'm going to be the whitest person on the drum corps field if I don't get a move on...Though at least I'll have "normal" non-existent tanlines! lol One of Ruben's friends, his family ha a beach house at [View Full Entry]

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So, We got up and got ready to move out of the Wine Man's. We headed down and sat on the beach waiting for our train, which was at 6:55pm. We filled our bottles with sand. I took a cool picture of the bottles on the beach to prove their authentic. lol It was kinda just a lazy day sitting around on the beach, what a nice vacation! We had french fries and gelato for lunch! lol Finally it was time to get on the train and we boarded. After going through about 4 coaches we finally found some seats [View Full Entry]

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Hola! I was in Cordoba this past weekend for the festival of plazas there. It was really cool. Didn't see as many plazas as I expected to, but that's all good. The ones we did see were really pretty and nice, so that's what counts. It was interesting travelling around with Monica and her friends. Of course, we ended up at the wine tasting place at the festival! Ugh, if I never see wine again after this trip I think I'll be okay with that. I also never knew it was "rude" to say no to trying someone's wine, but [View Full Entry]

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Ok, Need to take a small break from the Italy trip for this special message...Yesterday was the Day of the Crosses in Granada...Yea for no school! So, I went out with Monica and her friends and we went around and saw the crosses and Monica taught me how to dance the first Sevillana of Flamenco! lol Lots of fun. Anyway, this weekend I'm going to Cordoba with Monica, three of her friends, and Laura to see the Festival of the Plazas. Everyone who has plazas decorates them and opens up their buildings for people to go through and see the [View Full Entry]

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So, Day four was Sunday. So, Laura and I got up and went to church. I'v now officially gone to church in four different countries! And only in two of them did I understand the service! lol One good thing about Catholic churches, they all follow the same basic pattern, so you can understand what's going on without necessarily understanding the words. After church we hit the beach again. And that was pretty much our day. I went for a short hike around 7-9pm, but didn't go far because I didn't want to be out on the trails after dark. [View Full Entry]

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So, We got up at a decent hour, checked out of the Souvenir Hotel and headed via train to the last of the five Cinque Terre towns, Riomaggiore. We had heard from on of our friends who had gone there over Spring Break that there was a cheap hostel there, so we wanted to check it out. We were on the train at 11:30. Well by about 12:00 we had decided we liked where we were staying in Monterosso better than the hostel and the town of Riomaggiore. So, we began hiking back to Monterosso. The hike was about 6 [View Full Entry]

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So, Day two started at 6:30am...because we had an 8:10am train to catch to the main attraction of our trip...The Cinque Terre. A little background...Cinque...Italian for five, Terre...Italian for land. So, literally The Five Lands. And though there is an awful lot of really beautiful land in the area the actual Cinque Terre is five towns. Five "fishing" towns as they're called but anymore they are just five tourist towns. They are built in the mountains along the sea on the Western side of Italy. They're all small and about evenly spaced out along the coast, close enough to hike [View Full Entry]

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So, Day one of Italy occurred on what seemed to be an ordinary Thursday evening. I mean we had a successful flight, found our hostel, checked-in, dropped off our bags, and headed out in search for food. Well, being in Italy we had a very big decision on what to eat.....pizza or pasta. So we went for pizza, especially as it was cheap! 5euro for a whole pizza! So, everything is pretty standard so far, right? WRONG! We happened to sit down at the pizza place next to a fashion guy. He works with a big jeans company. He also [View Full Entry]

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Hola! ¿Que Tal? Estoy muy bien...esta buenisima aqui hoy! El tiempo esta un poco calor, y el sol esta fuera! Me encanta! Yo he hablado con Bethany este manana y ella dice que el tiempo en Maryland ayer estaba muy bonita...espero que esta cierto para Nueva Jersey tambien! ¿Vosotros estais aprender espanol de mis blogs? Yo espero que si...! jaja <---Espanol para haha porque el "h" aqui no tiene ruidoso y el "j" es tan el "h" de Ingles. Pues, esta todo de Espanol para hoy, pero yo espero vosotros comprendeis porque iyo no voy a tranducir hoy! jaja Well, after [View Full Entry]

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Hola Tod@s! The above as I've discovered is how people address things when they want to include both women and men in the normally patriarchal language that is Spanish. Anyway..Toledo and Madrid this weekend! So on Friday we met at Correos at 8:00am and headed to Toledo. We probably arrived there at around 1:30pm...long ride! So, we had a little bit of free time when we first got there in which I ate my sandwiches that Monica had packed for me and got some actually ice cream (in the form of a hot fudges sundae) from McDonalds....I know, that's tacky [View Full Entry]

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