Barcelona is fantastic. That is fact. The first day that I was there, I went to Montserrat and saw one of Gaudi’s masterpieces in the mountains. I cannot describe it. So I wont. I cannot do it justice look for the pictures. I spent two hours on the wrong train and wasted two hours of the day go to the wrong place and returning. Crap. I then got on the righ one at got to Montserrat and took the cable car up to the mountain (way up the mountain. I met a couple from Chicago named Kris and Jay who were really nice and I probably hung around them too long and wasted a little time in the gift shop first. But I had to leave them and go get lunch, which was delicious and not ... read more

So this is what happened this weekend: On Friday we went to class a little early and went back to have lunch. Directly after lunch we went on our next excursion. The excursion this weekend was to Salamanca and Ávila. These are two cities that cannot be any more different. But I will get to that later. After the hour and a half bus ride we arrived inn Salamanca and enjoyed the best hotel that I have ever seen. It was a four star hotel that our professor booked and it was a success. The only problem was the weird showers, which had a pressure washer in them and a waterfall for a showerhead. Other than that it was a lot of fun. We pretty much put our stuff down and met up to walk out ... read more

Well howdy. First off I want to apologize for butchering the Spanish language. I usually just butcher the English language. Most of the word that I have learned have been in speech and I give the spelling mixed up. Spanish is a phonetic language and it doesn’t matter how I spell things for the most part here, but I am talking to Americans who cannot write a paper without Autocorrect but decide that their mastery of English qualifies them to be grammar Nazis. Damn Facebook. Here is what I have been up to. On Sunday I slept in and did nothing really. In the evening I watched Terminator 3 and Police Academy in Spanish. I thought that Terminator was cool when he said “volverá” because I knew what he was talking about (it literally means She’ll ... read more

What has happened in the last couple of days? Hmm. Lets see. Wednesday was uneventful. I found myself wanting to go to sleep more than I did. The day just kind of slipped away with homework. I wish I knew Spanish so that my homework would go faster. But the language is actually not that bad. I have enjoyed the work classes and my host family’s words are becoming easier and easier to interpret. Al in all nothing much happened on Wednesday so on to Thursday. I also decided to keep it calm and spend very little time on homework. I found some postcards that will probably get back to NC after me. I also found some shops for good souvenirs and gifts. I like to say that because I am not getting most of you ... read more

It has definitely been an interesting day thus far. It started at 5:30 in Raleigh and realizing how tired this past semester has made me. So tired in fact that I did not realize that my flight left at 10:40 am instead of 8:30 am like I thought. Well, it was disappointing when I had to wait around for 2 hours after getting up so early. One piece of good fortune almost fell in my lap after I went to the gate. The attendant at the desk asked for a volunteer to take a flight that was an hour later than mine to New York so that someone that bought the ticket at the last minute could have a seat. In return they were offering a $300 flight voucher for another plane ticket in the future. ... read more