Blogs from Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, Europe - page 7

Hello everyone! I’m sorry I haven’t updated you in awhile, but the extremely long blog that I will post after this one will make up for it. Before I post that blog, I will give you a few updates. On Sunday, November 20th Jeff Clifton (the new API director in the U.S.) came to town and 7 of the API students, myself included, went to dinner with him to tell him about API’s Cádiz program and give him some feedback. It was so wonderful to be able to brag on Juan, my family, and API in general. I would highly recommend API for anyone who is thinking about studying abroad. On Monday, November 21st, Blake Edward Morton came to see me! I flew to Madrid to meet him and I cannot put in words how much ... read more

Hello all!! Holy cow! It’s been what, a month since I’ve written? I sincerely apologize. After the middle of November things got pretty busy here in Cádiz Since we have to take our finals in just two weeks instead of in February we also have to turn in all of our final papers and give our final presentations before we leave, so it’s been a pretty packed last couple of weeks!! To be honest it finally started to feel like I was in college again, haha! Meghan and I were talking about it and it really seems like we got about two extra months of summer vacation and then the last month we had to cram in a semester worth of information…I’ll get back to you on whether I prefer the U.S. way or the ... read more

Am 17.11. ging es für mich für fünf Tage nach Spanien, in den Urlaub vom Urlaub, meine Freundin, Kommilitonin und baldige WG-Mitbewohnerin Joana zu besuchen. Morgens um acht fuhr ich mit dem Zug von Napoli nach Rom und von dort aus mit dem Bus zum Flughafen. Dort habe ich mich auch mal wieder verarschen lassen (bin ich mittlerweile richtig gut drin): das Ticket für die Hinfahrt kostete 6 Euro, hätte ich es im Bus gekauft, 8 Euro, auf der Rückfahrt 5 Tage später 4 Euro. Finde den Fehler! Eine ausgebuchte Ryanair Maschine mit (nicht) ganz (so) reizenden Stewardessen flog mich nach Sevilla. Auf dem Flug waren unter anderem die Strände von Sardinien, außerdem Menorca und die Kathedrale von Palma de Mallorca erkennbar. Es ist sehr interessant, wie viel man doch aus der Höhe noch erkennt. Beim ... read more

Hi everyone! Sorry it’s been so long since I have written anything, not much as really gone on since I wrote about the apartment situation last week. Unfortunately again there aren’t really any photos to go along with this blog, so I’m putting in some random photos of Cádiz that I pass by almost every day! :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMORROW BRET!!! :) (just incase I don’t blog tomorrow! ) This week has been all about school really. For my Romance Linguistics class I have to write my final paper already and my topic is “The Use of French in Normandy England,” which is not really anything I know much about, but it has been interesting to learn about! Thankfully for me, because it is a French/English topic pretty much all of the literature is either in ... read more

Hello again, Today is a VERY special day. Today my Dad has his 60th Birthday!! I really can’t believe my Dad is actually turning 60 years old. It really doesn’t seem like that long ago he was turning 45 and my 5-year-old self decided it would be funny to make signs that said “Old Man” and placed them all around the house and in his car. However, I would have to say, Dad that you don’t look sixty. When I told Evan that Dad was turning 60 this year he said, “Really? Rex is turning 60? I can’t believe that.” So there you go, sixty years young right? Thanks to the wonderful world of technology I even got to call him today to tell him Happy Birthday. That really means a lot to me that from ... read more