Blogs from Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, Europe - page 10

Hi all! First off, Heather: I GOT YOUR PACKAGE AND I LOVE IT!!! Trail mix and peanut butter…the Heather Gods heard my prayer! Hahahaha!! The first thing I did was take out one of the spoons I bought and had a big scoop of peanut butter. Oh the sweet, sweet creamy, crunchiness. It was heaven in a very giant plastic jar. However if anyone else sent the same stuff do not worry…I will welcome it with open arms!! Mom, the second package still has not arrived, but hopefully tomorrow or Friday. Also, I heard today on the news that Beyoncé is pregnant. This is exciting for two reasons: 1) I love Beyoncé 2) I understood it, on my own, on the news. Today we did not have class, because we don’t have class on Wednesdays during ... read more

There are a lot of times where I find myself in what I consider to be a sticky situation in Cadiz. For example, yesterday was September 11, and the U.S. Embassy in Madrid advised us all to stay inside, and not draw any attention to ourselves as Americans. However, yesterday was the annual Airplane Extravaganza in the new part of Cadiz and the whole town was there. The other Americans and I decided to go to the air show and I wore white and blue to show my allegiance to the U.S. and honor those who were affected by September 11th. We spoke English, we didn’t try to blend in, and we craved American food. We simply wanted to be American yesterday. It was a liberating feeling to say the least. I was curious to ... read more

Hi! I’m really sorry. I hate giving you guys two blogs in one day, but it’s just want happens sometimes. I bought this mobile Wi-Fi thing and it worked great for the first two days, and then it just stopped working! What?! Called the help line, woman spoke so fast! “Más despacio por favor.” (Slower please). As I said in an earlier blog, if a Spaniard realizes you are slower at Spanish they don’t slow down or pick different words, they just talk louder. “No, más despacio por favor.” Two beeps. Someone on the other end speaks, “Hello.” She transferred me to their English speaking folks (uhg) where I was told I need to “top up” my device, meaning I need to go online and put money on the account since it is pay as you ... read more

September 8th, 2011 Just to clear up something from my last post for people who didn’t get the joke (cough cough Blake Morton) my roommate and I don’t really make up crazy cockroach dances, that was just my way of telling everyone that we have had a few cockroach encounters since we have been here. Today school seemed to drag on. I really like our teacher, Roberto, because he is great at explaining tough concepts. Today, Hayley and I sat with international students from Germany and Italy between us so we could get to know people from other countries. They came to the beach with us after class, and it is really great talking to them because we don’t have the option of defaulting to English during the conversation. They speak Spanish on the same level ... read more

Hi! First order of business. DO NOT SEND ANYMORE PACKAGES TO THE UNIVERSITY! SEND THEM TO THE ADDRESS I GAVE FOR LETTERS!!! Sorry about that. If you have already sent something to the school its ok, but Juan said to just go ahead and send packages to our houses. I'll re-post the address here: Pepa Barroso (Para: Devin Schultze) C/ Sacramento no 49, 2o IZQ. 11003 Cádiz España (And just so you know, C/ is like writing St. for street :) ) Alright. Last night I was feeling just so-so and a bit out of place in the house after I got scolded for trying to do work in the living room. So before bed I tried to relax and watch a movie I had downloaded a while ago. It was called "Everything Must Go" with ... read more