Blogs from Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, Europe - page 22

Here there friends and family...so I have finally found time to start this blog. Seeing as this is my first blog and I generally hate to write, I cannot guarantee a huge entertainment factor; but at least this will keep you somewhat updated on what I have been up to. Well, since I missed doing this for the first three days I will try to briefly summarize my trip thus far. A) Spain and Malaga is pretty amazing. B) I have done more walking in these three days than I ever thought possible. C) I am not going to lose as much weight as I thought, because the food is dang delicious. At least I am getting some exercise though (so much walking!). D) Hanging with my host family and my group members is going to ... read more

After three long days of unpacking all my stuff from my apartment and packing for Spain, my parents and my brother and I headed to the Minneapolis airport. The boys parked the car and I checked in for my flight. Soon after my parents surprised me by also checking in. Thrilled about this idea my mom just said, "we're coming with you!". Really surprised and confused I asked if they were planning on going to Chicago for the weekend. Nope, they flew all the way to Frankfurt with me (the longest part of the trip) and then we split ways and they went to Mallorca for the weekend. They totally had me... apparently my mom slipped up a couple of times but I didn't even notice. Granted I was busy packing and preparing for my trip, ... read more

Hey everyone! How are you all? I miss everyone, and I hope you are all good. I am pretty good. Everything has calmed down here a little bit. My classes have started, so I have more of a schedule for every day instead of everything always being different. It is nice. I have 2 hours of class every day right now. It is just my spanish language class. Then, in 2 weeks, my elective classes start so I will have 2 hours of spanish language, then spanish culture, and then spanish literature. I really like my language class that I have right now, the teacher is really nice. Yesterday was a little bit funny in class. There are 6 of us in the class from ISA, the group that i here with, and there are I ... read more

i sent this email to my mom earlier today so i just decided to copy and paste it on here so you could get the full story of my trip from barcelona to malaga.... hehe yeeeeaaahhhh. hey!!!!!!! i FINALLY made it to malaga after having the worst day EVER! oh my goodness i don't even want to tell you what happened because i can already see that look on your face.... you know the one where you roll your eyes and say michelle! you're such a mess! haha yeah.... so i woke up in plenty of time to make my 8 am train to malaga... but then i kind of dozed off again for about 30 min... so i hauled ass to the train station but the train i had to wait for to take me ... read more

Malaga Spain has been a wonderful surprise, much much more than the tourist ghetto we'd been expecting. This ancient city, palpably Roman but actually occupied much earlier by the Phoenicians, has shattered our stereotype of the shallow Costa Del Sol resort town. It's actually a decent-sized city, and getting from the airport into town was more of a challenge than we'd expected, even having perused Google sat photos beforehand. (For the record, there ARE sufficient connections across the riverside natural preserve area that cyclists don't need to take the heinous Autovia bridges into town.) The GPS guided us directly to our pre-selected, Lonely Planet-approved pension, the Hotel California. (Coincidently, Kate and I first met at a same-named hotel some 15 years ago in Baja, Mexico. Everybody say "Awwwh....") The beautiful room, with a Mediterrnean-view balcony, w ... read more