So this will be my last entry, since this is my last day in Toledo!!!!!!!! I will be going to the airport in about 2 hours, and then Kaley and I will be sitting there for about 8 hours waiting for my 6am flight. I am so excited to go home! :) [View Full Entry]

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So, I wrote this blog entry already, but thanks to my wonderful laptop, I lost it! I can't guarantee that this entry will be as good as the other one I wrote, but I'll try... In recent news, today was the BIG day. It was the day that my 10+ page paper was due. I e-mailed it to my advisor at SNC yesterday. Oh, and it ended up being 15 pages! Go me! This weekend Kaley and I went to Alicante, which is on the Meditteranean coast. It was a fun trip! It took us about 3.5 hours to get there [View Full Entry]

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So it is official: 3 weeks from today I will be carrying my huge suitcases through the train station on my way to the airport!!!! Talk about exciting!!! Well, and a little scary too! I am so excited to come home, but at the same time, it feels like I just got here! I am finally starting to get the hang of things here, though I still miss the comforts of home for sure. I miss sleeping in my own bed, being able to drive, seeing my students, playing with the dogs, and walking on paved roads (not to mention SIDEWALKS!). [View Full Entry]

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Pictures from ROME and VENICE! [View Full Entry]

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Ok, finally, here are the pictures from Barcelona! Enjoy! [View Full Entry]

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¡Hola a todos! Well, now that things have returned to "normal" I don't really have much to update. Yes, I know, I still need to add the pics from Rome...I'm just being a little lazy these days! Yesterday was a bad day. And no, it's not because someone played a bad April Fools joke on me or anything (they don't celebrate April Fools Day here...actually, their equivalent of April Fools is in December a few days after Christmas). Without going into the whole story, I will just say that I had my first experience with an over-eager/perverted spanish man (actually he [View Full Entry]

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Today was a sad day :( I woke up and headed to the hostel to pick up my mom, eric, and S.G.N.Mike to take them to Madrid. Eric really wanted to see the Picasso painting Guernica, and fortunately, the Reina Sofia Museum is located right by the Madrid train station. UNfortunately for us, it is closed on Tuesdays (who the heck is closed on a TUESDAY??). I felt bad for him. We didn't have anything else to do in that part of town, so we took the metro to the Hard Rock Cafe in Madrid. That's right, we've eaten at HRC [View Full Entry]

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So, Holy Week (Semana Santa) is semi-officially over, and it was pretty interesting. Don't let the title scare you! It really wasn't that bad! It was so nice to get to see my mom and brother (and some guy named Mike showed up too...). We had a little drama to start off the week festivities, but eh, no pasa nada! On Friday I sat in the airport for about 8 hours waiting for the flight to come in. Then I brought them to my house and introduced them to my padres. I think they hit it off! My mom brought me [View Full Entry]

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So, not everything is absolutely fabulous in Spain (we can't all stay in 'Stage One' forever!). I have decided to make 2 lists, one venting about what I hate/dislike in Spain, and one about what I really like about Spain. Basically, I am just really bored.... :) Things I HATE..... -the 2nd hand smoke...I am pretty sure my life expectancy has decreased by at least 5 years already -the fact that people don't clean up after their dogs on the street (apparently that's what the street washers are for) -all the hills....my legs are sore! -people staring at me whenever/wherever just [View Full Entry]

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Estoy constipada does NOT mean "I'm constipated" in English; it actually means "I'm congested/stuffed up/have a cold" etc. People use it for when they have cold symptoms, which I still have. (FYI, "I'm constipated" in spanish is "estoy enstrenido/a"...in case you were wondering.....) Well, another school week has come to an end. I believe it was week number 7. This will be the 2nd weekend where I am being abandoned by my friends :( There is a school-sponsored weekend trip to Andalucia, but it was a little pricey, so I chose not to go, and Kaley's friend is coming to visit [View Full Entry]

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