Blogs from Spain, Europe - page 1100

I just wrote a huge entry, and then my internet died :'( Update! I just bought my plane ticket home yesterday. I'm flying out of Shannon the 17th of July. I got a really great deal through cheaptickets.com. I'm flying into Dublin the 7th of July, just right after I get my last paycheck, and then spending a week travelling Ireland with Ali and hopefully Kastin and Pablo. I'm excited to see a country I have family ties to! For that reason, I really want to visit England, Scotland, and Germany. There's something neat about seeing places your family a long time ago came from. My first week of work was awesome. I have really nice and motivated students, and I really enjoy going to work. I get paid very well, too. I really can't complain ... read more

Festival of La Merce- http://cmu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2050622&l=1e78c&id=4806833 First Few Weeks of Barcelona- http://cmu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2050619&l=4305c&id=4806833 Tarragona Excursion- http://cmu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2050620&l=adee4&id=4806833 Montserrat Trip- http://cmu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2050624&l=1baf9&id=4806833 London- http://cmu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2050625&l=34633&id=4806833... read more

Landing in Dubai was nothing short of a surreal experience. I’m really not sure that the whole scope of this journey has really set in, or that it ever will. To me, I’m merely carrying on my life, now immersed and surrounded by a vastly different world and its plentiful and frequent new experiences. Dubai’s airport is a massive expanse, and though I’d imagine it to be usually bustling with people, Ramadan this month means that it is more than half empty. Less than a quarter full, even. It’s about a 7 minute walk from tarmac to passport control, and the attendants behind the desks have no facial expression and don’t even bother speaking to you, except to ask your country of origin and the reason for you entering their country. It’s a further 5 minute ... read more

Well, I am in Madrid. My trip felt sooo long. First, Reno to Philadelphia, stay the night in Philly. Then I was at the airport six hours early today, because I had to check out of the hotel by noon. So I hung around the airport reading until my flight to Madrid. (I´ve already read two books.) We waited on the plane for over an hour before we even took off, with no explanation at all from the pilot as to what was going on. I hate flying, it is such a hassle. Also, I haven´t flown an airline besides Southwest for a while, and the seats on US Air had almost no leg room, it was horrible. But, no one was sitting in the seat next to me, so I was able to stretch out ... read more

so we decided to get the hell out of dodge, gathered up 20 euros to leave the crazy columbiana, and hailed a taxi. Now if you´ve ever heard a bible story you will recognise that whenever something really poignant is taking place...when history is being made...God always seemed to send some really affirmative weather to set the scene. So imagine as we were leaving the flat, hail stones the size of skittles started pouring from the heavens like machine-gun fire.I was not tasting the rainbow! Eventually the gods had spat out enough hail that it began to flow in torrets down the street, which in Toledo, are geerally at a 40 degree angle. So as we are shielding our heads from the frozen raindrops and trying to walk upstream through the frozen gutter rapids to the ... read more