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Hola mis amigos! :) Well, Jana’s wedding marked my last overnight trip until my parents arrive, as of the 19th of May I only have one month left here in Cadiz and two months left until I arrive back in the United States. It’s been nearly a year of crazy adventures, new experiences, and definitely testing my limits. I really thought that after Jana’s wedding the excitement would die down that things would be rather calm here in Spain with just papers and tests left as my “exciting” things to do, but Giorgio (my Sicilian geology professor) and his “field trip” added themselves to my long list of things that did not turn out how I expected. The only way to describe it is what I said at our last stop of the day, “Esta es ... read more

Hola Everybody! Well, since we last caught up I’ve been on two trips and actually had some class finally, so it’s been a productive few weeks. API took our group to Extremadura, the least populated province in Spain, for a weekend of relaxing and hiking. Well, it rained all weekend so there wasn’t much hiking, but the relaxing part was successful. Probably because no one goes there, they have really, really nice hotels for very cheap, so we stayed in some of the nicest hotels so far and just got to enjoy the open Spanish countryside. Only three of the seven in our group decided to go to Extremadura; the word “hiking” seemed to stick out more than any of the others and deterred most from deciding to go. However, me, Holly and Emily had a ... read more

Hi again! So, after this blog we should be all caught up for a while! Yay! Immediately after I dropped Alex and Jenny off at their bus station, I walked down the Guadalquivir River walk to get to the train station to meet my API group as we were off for our API International Excursion to Lisbon, Portugal! Of course I stopped at Starbucks on my way. Normally, spring semester Cadiz and Sevilla students are supposed to go to Morocco for our international excursion, but because of some unrest there and because airlines are cutting down on the amount of flights it became too difficult for them to fly us over there, so they changed us over to Lisbon. I really didn’t mind. Not that Morocco wouldn’t have been really neat, it’s just that my favorite ... read more

Hello again! So after my birthday weekend we already had to start getting ready for the coming weekend. The trip I have had planned since before I got to Spain: St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland. Remember that list of index cards with goals on them? One of those goals is to go to Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day. Just so happens Carly had that same goal so we’ve been in on this since the beginning. I recruited Ryan, my friend from Clemson studying in Sweden and then Leigh surprised me when she and Ty decided to come to visit me for spring break. Leigh and I booked a room at a Hilton in Dublin using Mrs. Allison’s Hilton points (thank you! :)) and the four of us would stay in that room while Carly and Jessie ... read more

Hi everyone! Well, first, enjoy the sort of random array of photos I have; there weren't really any that go with this blog, but since this post has some sort of funny stories, these are just some fun pictures from around Cadiz. Since Carnaval has ended, Cadiz and I have gone back to our normal, daily Spanish lives. I don’t know if I’ve ever actually chronicled what a normal day is like for me. Well, usually on the weekdays I wake up and either a) go to school or b) go for a run/go to the gym. I like to get my work done early in the day so I have afternoons free to do the many things that tend to pop up and need to be done. This week my “task” for my free afternoons ... read more