Hello all one last time from Spain! I leave in just a few short minutes, so I just wanted to say thanks for reading all these months!!! I really appreciate it! I was hoping to do a better entry here, but I ran out of time, so you'll just have to make do with this instead :) Anyway, it's been an amazing semester overall... I've seen and done SO much that I might never have done had I not had this opportunity. Spain is a beautiful place, and I'm really going to miss it. It's really been quite a ride, and I wouldn't have traded it for anything in the world. I'm getting ready to embark on another adventure (pictures and another post will probably come when I get back), and then it's my final semester ... read more

Well hey there! How goes it stateside?! It pretty much goes without saying that things are continuing to go well on my side of the Atlantic. Actually, these past two weeks have been QUITE eventful, so if my fingers can endure all I have to type, this is going to be the longest post yet. Prepare yourselves. Ready? Okay. Here goes. Recap of my life since we last left off. The Tuesday after I posted the last blog, I went to a get-together at Fabio’s apartment (the hilarious South Korean from my grammar classes) with the rest of our grammar class. The entire class minus the Americans was continuing on together, and I really missed all of them! It was so nice to see everyone again, as well as hang out with people that I could ... read more

Well, howdy, ya’ll! Long time, no post! I haven’t updated in two weeks because I haven’t had enough blog-ish material for separate entries, so I’m lumping it all into one long one. Happy reading! Last weekend (the 11th), just about everyone left for various individual trips… Thursday was some holiday in the region of Valencia (although no matter how many times it was explained to me, I still don’t understand it), so everything was closed for the day, and most people took a long weekend. I stayed here, though, as Saturday was the Volvo Ocean Race! Daman and I went down at around 10, and the line to get in was enormous! It was really rainy and windy, but the crowds poured in. The boats took off around 11, but, like the weekend before, just sailed ... read more

So I haven’t really done any trips recently, but I figured I’d update you on the little things that have happened and the new stories that have arisen since the Barcelona trip. It’s been two weeks since my last update, so get ready for lots of stories! Let’s see… the week following Barcelona was pretty uneventful overall, minus the finals for my first block of grammar classes, which went pretty well, and The Office premiere (awesome!), so I’ll skip ahead. The following weekend was relaxing by night and stressful by day. Explain? Don’t mind if I do! NIGHTS. Friday night Adam, Daman, and I went and saw “Passengers,” the new Anne Hathaway movie in which she plays a therapist dealing with the surviving passengers of a plane crash, and slowly they begin to disappear. The movie ... read more

I had fully intended to have this blog written and posted Monday, but a friend just recently let me borrow “Twilight,” and I’m beyond hooked right now, so my apologies. I know, some of you are shaking your heads right now, saying, “Laura, ‘Twilight,’ really?” but seriously, it’s ridiculously addicting, like “finish-it-in-a-day-and-now-I’m-re-reading-it” addicting. Not the “next Harry Potter” as some people have claimed by any means, but it’s good. I could go on for days comparing the two and falling into my Potter-obsessive world, or gushing about my new fictional character crush, but this is a travel blog, so I’ll spare you and get to the point. But you should definitely spend the day or two and read it. Before the movie comes out too. Seriously, read it. *Ahem* Alright, to the travel stuff! So this ... read more

Hola! Well, I’m in Spain, safe and sound. I’ve decided to start a travel blog to keep everyone updated on the big events here… travel, festivals, etc. Of course, I still plan to keep up on emails and whatnot, but I don’t have internet in my house, so personal replies are going to take a bit longer, and this way I don’t have to repeat myself on the major events. You can all just check them out here! For those of you who don’t know, if you subscribe to this blog, you’ll receive an email every time I update, so it works out pretty well. Alrighty, an update on what’s happened thus far (beware, I’m probably going to ramble; I have lots of stories and nobody to tell them to!): Flights. First off, I HIGHLY recommend ... read more