Blogs from San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, Europe - page 13

Got a suitcase-boooooyaaaaah!!! That is like the highlight of my trip so far haha now I just need one more... I've been really super-wow homesick lately, but today is a good day, and I think that it's up from here =) Classes were pretty good, my classes are really small. The first day was so exhausting-just class in Spanish all day then come home with Spanish with my host family,phew! But I have one about the Spanish Civil War which is in English that I think I'm really going to like. I want to try an art history class as well, but I just realized today that that'd put me at 20 credits, so... haha we'll see. I went shopping yesterday! Finally. Spent my 50 euros worth that British Airways owes me at a store called ... read more

Last night we all went out as a group for our final weekend in San Sebastian. We went to the sidreria Petritegi. A sidreria is a type of restaurant famous in Spain where there are huge barrels of sidra (cider) and you eat and then fill your glasses of sidra straight from the tap on the barrel. The food and sidra are unlimited. For a certain fee, you get as much food and sidra as you want. A person just opens the tap and the sidra starts squirting out onto the floor and then people line up and fill their glass with a shot of sidra and gulp it down. However there is a very specific way to filling your cup with sidra. You want to let the stream hit the side of your cup because ... read more

This time of year is always hard when you dont get to spend it with your family. At least for me it is because i am very close with my family. I have had a really hard week and i have been missing home like crazy. On wednesday I got to be skyped in to Brandon's family Thanksgiving and see his family which was really nice. I really miss getting to see little miss olivia (his 1 year old neice) and i finally got to see Eli for the first time! He is sooooo cute, but huge for his age. He was born on Sept. 1st the day i left to come over here and i was so upset that i didnt get to see him before i left. But it was so exciting to get ... read more

So our friend Steven's roommate Jon (pronounce Yon) is spanish/basque and he is very cute. In fact, all of the girls in our program think he is cute. But he is hardly ever around because he is from Bilbao and he just goes to school in San Sebastian and on a lot of the weekends he goes home to Bilbao to be with his family because his dad is sick with cancer. Well one night we were all out hanging out and Steven made a promise to Kayla, Danielle, and me that Jon would cook us dinner in his chonies (boxers). It was a joke, but last night Jon did have us over for dinner. Although he was not wearing just his chonies... ;) But he made us a spanish dinner that was absolutely amazing! He ... read more

This weekend has been absolutely crazy. Luckily i was feeling better after going to the doctor on tuesday getting the medication because i dont think i would have survived this weekend without it. Friday night Kayla, Danielle, and me met up with Oier, Iker, and some of their friends. We hung out at Molly Malones, which is a local favorite bar in San Sebastian, for most of the night and then around two in the morning when Bataplan opened we headed over to Bataplan to dance. Iker got us in for free because his dad knows the owner or something like that and we also got a free drink as well, which is a good thing because the drinks in Bataplan were 10 euro apiece. It was kind of ridiculous. We had a lot of fun ... read more