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An Experience I Never Would Have Dreamed of Having, Come True It all started with one unplanned surgery that messed up all of my best laid future plans. This one surgery forced me to reevaluate my life and to search for different ways that I could still achieve my ultimate goals of getting a great, well-rounded education and graduating with a college degree that would be a stepping stone to my future. But I never expected that my path would lead me in the way that it did. In all of my life I had never been away from home and family for more than 2 weeks. Oh, I went to camp as a kid and I even left the country on a mission trip once to Honduras. However, on these trips I was always surrounded ... read more

Ireland was amazing!!! It was by far my favorite trip that i took. We caught a 6 hour bus ride on Friday night at midnight to Madrid where we flew out of the Barajas airport. We arrived in Ireland around like noon and we caught a cab to our hostel called four courts hostel. It got its name from the real four courts courthouse across the street and river from it. When we got to our hostel we checked in and then laid down for a nap after our long night and morning of traveling. Then when we woke up we wandered around and got dinner at a O'neils pub right down the street from our hostel. That night we decided to do a pub crawl and our tour guide took us all around to his ... 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