Blogs from District of Madrid, Spain, Europe - page 176

¡Hola amigos! Well, it´s already the "fin de semana" (weekend) for me! Madrid has una fiesta tomorrow so there is no class. So, because this is our only free 3 day weekend, a group of us are going to Tarifa, a city on the southern tip of Spain! It was so crazy trying to book this trip to Tarifa on such short notice. If I learned anything from this experience, it was that the sooner you can plan trips, the better! At first we were trying to figure out where to go....the island of Mallorca, Tarifa, London....eventually, we decided on Tarifa because plane tickets were crazy expensive trying to get them 4 days before! Then we had to go to the "estacion de los autobuses" to get our tickets. But before we were going to buy ... read more

Yesterday, I flew a four person plane!!!!! okay, I may not have taken off, or landed, but once up in the air, I had put on the headphones, grabbed the controls and headed out to Toledo, aproximately 2 hours in the car from Madrid, but 45 min on plane. Our capitan, Mr. Alejandro Basilio...aka...mi Pedro..... took us up into the blue on a beautiful Sunday morning... Laini also came as offical cinetographer and she was a bit apprehensive at first...but the Capitan reassured us that we were all very safe. Once up in the air, we travelled quite slow, about 200 kilometers or so....4,000 meters high! Alejandro did this one trick, where he actually climbs up into the air creating an arch with the plane, then quickly decends! This creates everything else in the cockpit that ... read more

I¨ Im sitting in a cyber cafe right now in....Madrid! I made it safely yesterday with only a few minor glitches. I left from Charlotte at 5:20 on the 29th and flew from there to Newark, NJ. It was really cool flying into that airport because I could see the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty from there. I then took a flight to Lisbon, Portugal. The seat that was assigned to me was a window seat except, ironically, there was no window there at all because it was the exit row. So I quickly grabbed one of the middle seats (you know the ones with 4 seats across and was able to sleep for about 3.5 hours on the plane. I landed in Portugal around 8:30, or 2:30 a.m. in my body´s time. ... read more

Today is full of beauty. I arose rested and calm, feeling full and well. My days past have been flighty and dreamy; full of restlessness and uncertainty. Definition eluded me, and the spiral I walked left me dizzy and estranged. Today, however, housed some kind of tranquility. Questions that have hung around my neck have escaped, at least for the moment. Sometimes there are no responses, not in the sense that one would hope for. Life, however, is profound. How simple it is, to move here and there, passing by the tenderness and sincerety that pours forth without effort. There is a frequency that these signals operate upon, entirely reachable and wholly available to all. Today I am attuned to these waves of emotion; they overtook me as I traversed the subway, of all places. My ... read more

Word up kiddies! I´m back in Madrid again and able to write you all some more lovely posts. Yesterday was a national holiday in Spain, so everything was basically closed, schools, banks, stores etc. Needless to say the spanish are back to their usual routine, consisting largely of eating, drinking and sleeping and not much else. When in rome.... Barcellona was definatley a good time. The comminuty itself is nearly as large as Madrid and constructed in much the same manner. Its metropolitan, as you might imagine, but much more personal in nature. Construction ranges in terms of age, as the city is much older than Madrid, so interesting edifeces and sights abound. Being both on the Mediteranean and near the border of France, the city also exudes a slightly more European feel, coupled with the ... read more