Well, my procrastination has apparently sunken to a new low. I'm finally finishing this deal. I've been back in the States for over 5 weeks now so I suppose this should be finished. Looking back on Greece, despite Brad's accident, it was a really cool experience. Athens was slightly disappointing; the city was pretty dirty and not much to see besides the Acropolis. Also, the Parthenon was covered in scaffolding which is understandable since the thing makes the buildings in Spain look like they are in their infancy, but still kind of less cool than I had expected. We also walked [View Full Entry]

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athens was really cool. mynokos and santorini were beautiful. we saw some amazing things, all of which i'll talk about later but it's one of the saddest days of the semester right now. yesterday brad, one of my roommates for the semester and one of the guys that i traveled with, rolled his ATV. he didn't break any bones or anything but he has some serious road rash and just can't travel anymore. he got to the hospital and got checked out and last night he was ok but today even the most routine tasks are difficult and painful. he has [View Full Entry]

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so this is the last blog from spain. ridiculous. it seems like an hour ago i was filling out applications just to come here. i finished my last test about 20 minutes ago and in like 7 hours i leave sevilla. this last week was awesome. i played frisbee one last time and at the bar the frisbee team gave me a disc that they all signed. it was hard to say goodbye to everyone. harder than i thought it would be. as a side note i ate snails and octupus. one last night of ridiculous food. last night was one [View Full Entry]

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well, there´s no way to end a trip but with excitment and confusion. So yesterday, a big group of us is sitting by the river, soaking in one of the last days in sevilla and talking about how we´re excited for the cruise when kelly gets a text from brad. ¨the cruise is cancelled.¨ we all thought it was a joke and were talking about how he must think it´s funny. but guess what. the cruise is friggin cancelled. check the link http://easycruise.com/gb/news/archive/25.04.08.asp so not only do i have 4 finals, packing all of my stuff, and figuring out work info [View Full Entry]

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I resisted the urge to call this blog Last Tango in Paris since although the title would have been good since it was the last trip, I have not seen the movie and from what I have heard the events of the movie vary slightly from my weekend. First off, the trip started at 8 am with a 6 hour bus ride to Madrid to catch our plane. this went well but at the bus station sarah was pickpocketed and lost her passport, wallet including cash and credit cards, and her camera. she couldn´t leave the country without her passport and [View Full Entry]

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only having a day before the tournament after morocco and still being a little sick, i was less than thrilled for the drive. 8 of us: me, sergi, jose, mac, jordi, alberto, ana, and miguel, met at santa justa and we left in two cars. i rode in miguel´s audi with ana and sergi. we listened to a bunch of spanish music from the eighty´s and they kept asking me if i had heard any of it before but it was all totally new to me. we didn´t get to the place until about 1145 pm and we just went straight [View Full Entry]

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Morocco, or as I used to spell with a bonus ¨r¨, Morrocco, was an entirely different universe. The trip was a 6 day whirlwind of different foods, old cities, arabic, sand, camels, and seemingly countless bus trips. the very first thing that got me after the ferry ride when we were in Tangiers was the writing. It was weird first getting to Sevilla and seeing stuff in Spanish and then in Barcelona when stuff was in Catalan. However, Arabic takes the cake since they dont even use the alphabet. It pretty much looks like either doodles or a series of lower [View Full Entry]

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I had my last test on thursday and that same night i was on a plane with aaron to barçelona. it felt like a different country. the first thing that struck me was the language, catalan. it is kind of like castillian spanish but it certainly is it´s own language. there was a lot i couldn´t figure out. Next the architecture felt very modern and the gaudi buildings and park guell were unlike anything i had seen before. it was weird being in sevilla where everything is older and then going to barçelona where modern buildings are all over. we found [View Full Entry]

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enitrely too much happened since my last entry. mom, dad, holly, sam, and ella all came for semana santa which was really cool. hotel murillo was cool and on the skinniest street ever. the pasos were really cool at first but then you can´t get anywhere you want to go without getting stuck behind one or having it cross your path. we saw more than we wanted to and almost got trampelled by a virgen in plaza salvador. the nazarenos, dudes in kkk outfits, were pretty creepy but interesting to see. we saw everything: cathedral, giralda, alcazar, plaza nueva, plaza espana, [View Full Entry]

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What a weekend. We flew out Friday at noonish since flights were randomly cheaper than the train. We get to Madrid and we are going to take the metro downtown to find a hostel. Technical problem, the airport is connected to the city by one line and there is a train stuck in that line. So we get a cab after waiting a while since the bus drivers are on strike. We get dropped off at the Prado and walk up the street to find a hostel since we had serious trouble booking online. Randomly find an awesome, cheap hostel within [View Full Entry]

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