http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Spain , Andalusia en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:55:42 BST Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:55:42 BST AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAASorry mein eigentlicher Beitrag folgt morgen ich habe auch schon einiges geschrieben aber das muss ich jetzt sofort mit euch teilenhttpde.youtube.comwatchvBb443j7Lnu4Aaah der Gnther.... Das Drama muss ein Ende haben Uh Annemarie Gemeiner woher kenn ich die denn Hm...Immerhin keimt etwas Hoffnung auf... http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-333077.html Its Thursday again.So last night after siesta I went with Rachel to the birthday party for one of our teachers Ana who turned 24. Of course we were the first people there being americans we were 5 minutes early and she has a very beautiful apartment with a lot of windows and a gorgeous view. She showed us her place and then we got some juice and waited for others to arrive. Once the rest of th http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/blog-332634.html Okhellip so here is what has been happening in my life for the past few daysMonday morning we got up at like 730 and made sure everything was packed up. I showered and got ready for my first day at school After breakfast Vincente our landlord he works at Ceciliarsquos school came and picked us up and got some of the luggage. He took us to their school and since Rachel and I didnrsqu http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/blog-332339.html This morning I woke up and I did not want to get out of bed it was 545 but the thought of Sevilla got me up. I ended up leaving a little later than I wanted I got to the Metro around 645. When I got to Atocha I found a ticket window and stood in line but when it was my turn the guy told me I couldnrsquot buy a ticket to Sevilla from that window so I just followed a crowd and found anoth http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-332305.html After our siesta in Barcelona we had a pleasant visit with GiladAsaf's brother whose house we stayed in while he was back in the States. Anyway Gilad showed us his Barcelona by taking us for hot chocolate it's more like a hot thick pudding that you eat with a spoon to his favorite local restaurants and showing us around his neighborhod Gracia. It was a short but sweet visit.Then we had http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-332295.html Well what happened to me this week has been very crazy. So much occurred to me that I am going to try to explain everything briefly. Let's see well for a start I arrived at Madrid airport Barajas at 11ish in the morning. Everything was fine I had to take my bags and myself to the bus station in the south called Alvaro Mendez. I took the subway without a problem. There were escalators to he http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/blog-331569.html We have been without internet access for several days but those days have been full. We left the Coimbra area of central Portugal on Tuesday and drove south to the very tip of Portugal. Sagres was once believed to be the end of the world. This is where Henry the Navigator set up a school in the 15th century where Magellan and Columbus both studied.Our drive south took us through varying terr http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Sierra-Nevada/blog-331507.html Bueno lo que me ha pasado esta semana ha sido muy loco. Tanto ha tenido lugar a m que voy a tratar de explicar todo de una manera breve. A ver pues para empezar llegu en el aeropuerto de Madrid Barajas a las 11 y pico de la maana. Todo estaba bien tena que llevarme mis maletas y yo mismo a la estacin de autobuses del sur llamada Mndez lvaro. Tom el metro sin problema. Haba e http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Salobre-a/blog-331437.html So today was a really lazy day... which i greatly needed. We woke up for breakfast at 10 and ate. I went back to bed for a little bit because last night there was a wedding and they were partying till like 2 am so after i woke up we changed and decided to go on a hike. since our hotel is out in the country... we figured there might be some trails. well apparently people are really big on private http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/blog-331225.html Happy day... On Friday to start the weekend I had to go to the Immigration office to get my Visa extended. Well I had to get up at 4am for that. So when I was done at 930 Antonette and I met for Churros at a stand on the river. I got mine with hot chocolate because I had already had coffee that morning when I was waiting in line for 4 hours. Then we went on a group trip to the archeology http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-331145.html Well hello there all I'm in my 4th day in Granada and I'm doing pretty well... It's getting a little bit easier to be away from everything that I know and am familiar with it's just taking some time. I really like the class that I'm taking... There are 2 teachers 4 hours a day... Just us learning the Spanish Language... I'm happy. One of my teachers is really fun. Her name is Africa and she is http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-330874.html Well today was another exhausting day. We woke up at 10 for breakfast... which was a major disappointment considering this beautiful 4 star hotel we are in... but whatever. I fell back asleep for about 40 minutes then showered and the taxi picked us up and took us back into the city. We had 4 hours till we had to meet another man to see his apartment for rent. so we walked alllllll over the city http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/blog-330864.html I missed yesterday so here's a recap of ThursdayWoke up on TIME for once Went down for beakfast and then went back to my room to get ready. Orientation in the morning was pretty boring and not really useful. WE had 3 sessions and then Cecilia and I went to the grocery store and got some empanadas and fruit for lunch. We had one more session from a past participant on how to make extra money whi http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/blog-330529.html Nun ist meine erste Woche an der Uni fast um. Unglcklicherweise habe ich an drei Tagen die Woche um 830 Uhr meine erste Vorlesung und kann nur an einem Tag ausschlafen. Auerdem habe ich in zwei Fchern auch schon Hausaufgaben aufbekommen wobei ich das bei einem Fach erst mitbekommen habe als alle anderen einen Zettel abgaben was einiges ber meinen Stand an Spanisch aussagt und in dem ander http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-330237.html This week was our first week of real classes. It was great. I think I will really like my schedule. I have class at 845 evey morning which obviously I dont like then when I wake up but I have enjoyed having started my day off early. I go down to the comedor to have coffee with cola cao hot chocolate powder and milk and bread with strawberry jelly. Then I walk to school. I have grammar a http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-330173.html SO Im Here in Spain. I wrote a really long blog detailing everything that has happend in the like 2 days that I have been here. But it got deleted. So I'm not rewriting it. It was nothing really exciting anyways.We will just start from day 3. Tomorrow. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-329490.html ... das verschiebe lieber auf berbermorgen. Nein damit mchte ich nicht auf spanische Eigenarten hinweisen sondern auf meine seit Jahren liebevoll kultivierte und gepflegte Lebensphilosophie der ich auch hier nicht entfliehen kann. So muss ich morgen meine Abschlussprfung fr Musikwissenschaften abgeben und habe immer noch nicht das blde Protokoll geschrieben. Zu allem Unglck hat heute auc http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-329076.html Well I know I said I would update you on the beginnings of the Spain leg of my trip but at this point I think it's been a few too many days to try to remember it all. So here are a few highlightWent to a couple clubs Catedral and Buddha... lots of fun loud music lot of cool people everyone stayed out until about 4 amMy house mom and her daughter both named Carmen are some of the sweetes http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-329047.html We boarded a bus from Alicante which took us some five hours to reach Granada a city inland in Southern Spain. We arrived fairly late in the evening and headed to our hotel before going out for dinner.The next morning we headed out to visit the main attraction of Granada La Alhambra.La Alhambra is a serie of palaces and gardens built during the Nazari dynasty in the 14th century. Unfortunately http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-328991.html so due to our experience and just fyi now i generally use this word when referring to something bad just so i can get in a little more sarcasm haha in mlaga i thought it was worth a new entry even though it has not been a week yet. and it wasn't all bad and if i can say this to anyone who I am sending this to and is female if you are ever feeling bad about yourself go to spain. read on http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/M-laga/blog-328898.html Arriving in Spain was so exhausting I arrived in Madrid and had already booked a hostel but needed to figure out how to get there I had directions and decided to take the metro which was fun It was similar to the subway in NY in that it gets super crowded but I got lucky and came when there was a bunch of construction being done and had to take a spiffy detour... Ended up on the verge of http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/blog-328562.html Aaaaah ich bin so aggroGestern habe ich mich zum Carrefour aufgemacht sowas wie Metro nur fr alle zugnglich um mir einen Drucker zu kaufen. Ich hatte mich vorher schon erkundigt und wollte den billigsten kaufen den sie haben da ich den ja eh nicht mit zurck nach Deutschland nehme. Erstmal musste ich stundenlang an der Info warten da es zwar das Austellungsstck gab aber keinen mehr i http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-328110.html Another week has flown by and Irsquove been making the most of my free time... consuming plenty of ice cream and sunning myself basically Irsquom already starting to get my bearings around the centre and not rely quite so heavily on my trusty little map Earlier in the week Phil and I took a trip to Ikea to stock up on a few bits and bobs which would make our apartment a little more homely http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-327918.html I realize it's been several days since my last entry and the major reason has been a lack of access to the internet however a lot has happened and hopefully I'll be able to remember a sufficient amount to recount an interesting story. My reaction to Madrid is much the same as it was to any other big city. We didn't have the opportunity to experience much of the night life as we did in Barcelona http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-327573.html Nun nun da ist man mal zwei Wochen weg aus Deutschland und schon liest man Nachrichten aus der Heimat mit Befremden. So erfuhr ich eben dass Bushido die Bestsellerlisten anfhrt seine Tour absagt und im Begriff ist sein Leben mit sich selbst in der Hauptrolle zu verfilmen. So ein rger dass ich das verpassen werde...Allerdings sind die News in Spanien auch nicht minder interessant so will Ca http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-327533.html