Well after my first real weekend in Valencia, I can now say I’ve been in the Mediterranean Sea and to the beach in January J The weekends start early for me here as we have no Friday class, so I spent my Friday running some errands. I now have a cell phone and the nice thing about cell phones in Spain is that incoming calls are free to the recipient (wink wink . . . feel free to call me (011-34)670275697. I then spent some of the afternoon taking pictures of Valencia, but not just any pictures, pictures which prove there [View Full Entry]

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Well as you can tell, I'm all safe and settled in Valencia, Spain. Hope you're ready for a long email . . . After quite the flying adventure and three days without my luggage, me and my bags made it to Valencia. I am living with a Spanish family and housemte from UVA about 5 minutes walking distance from my university. I'm very lucky because some people have to ride a bus for 30 minutes to get here. My Spanish parents are Juan and Marga and are in their mid 60s. They have two children, Blanca (33) who lives with her [View Full Entry]

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Saturday January 15, 2005 As part of an introduction to Spain, I went with the entire Spanish program here on a short bus tour of Valencia and then spent the afternoon climbing to the top of an old castle located in a town 45 minutes away from Valencia called Xàtiva. We made our way through tiny streets to the mountain road up to the castle. Upon making it to the castle we all sat on the steps and ate our “bocadillos” which are the equivalent of sandwiches for bag lunches. I was given ham and cheese on half a French baguette [View Full Entry]

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