Blogs from Salamanca, Castile & León, Spain, Europe - page 4

Classes started today, and they were very tough. The teachers only speak in Spanish, so it can be difficult when they are explaining what one Spanish word is by using a sentence of Spanish words. My first class was on grammar. We learned when you should use por vs para. It was interesting, and of course I got a lot of answers wrong. The teacher was able to speak a little English to us when we did not understand what was happening, but she didn’t speak very much. After the ten minute break, my next class started. It was on conversation, but we started to discuss random things like the word prostitute came from a Latin word that meant something was valuable. The professor does not speak much English, so he drew on the board to ... read more

After 7 hours in layovers, crossing 6 time zones on one flight, trying to find 5 others in an airport without means of communication, 4 hour bus ride, 3 flights, 2 last minute gate changes, and 1 Alexis lugging around a heavy carry-on, I finally made it to Madrid. My travels started with me waking up at the horrible hour of 3 in the morning to go to the airport and catch my 6-o-clock flight. After many tears, goodbyes and I love you’s, and TSA pat downs, I finally arrived in Charlotte from Pensacola. Luckily I had about two hours to roam around; otherwise I would have missed where it said my flight gate had changed. After finding the right gate and waiting, I hopped onto my next flight to Philadelphia. I was just getting the ... read more

Statins, aspirins, ibuprofen and anti histamine for DC as has lips like BEYONCE we finished a splendid hotel breakfast and packed bikes but ken and dave went wrong ramp out and had to back down which is very difficult, went not down to help but both had managed to sort it. Emerging in the street we met ELvis alive and well living or performing in salamance, so with big smiles we set off out of the city for some back road riding to Burgos about 250 Kim's or 160 miles away. Great roads and had coffee in small village with pretty bread delivery girl parking outside cafe and causing havoc, but wanted to have photos of our bikes for her boyfriend Onwards we ploughed and had few glitches with the sat nav but sorted it and ... read more

On Friday morning we has chocolate con churros, which is amazing! Since I have been sick I only indulged with one churro. Then after we had our breakfast we were given thelpful tips for traveling. I am pleased to say I have two trips planned! The first is in March and I am going to Paris with about 10 other people from my program here. I am looking forward to seeing what many people have told me is there favorite city in the world. I want to see the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre and everything else Parisian!. I want to pick up some French saying for the short time I am there. The other trip is to Morocco. The details are still being finalized but the trip is mid-April. Looking forward to seeing another continent! ... read more

My first blog post! 2/14-2/19 Wow, what an adventure this trip has been already! Today is the first day I actually have wifi (we just got it installed in our apt). I somehow got a single room, which is incredibly great. I have three other roommates: another Eva, pronounced Ava, and two Chelseas each with different spelling. Our apartment is very nice, as you can see in the pictures below. Hardwood floors and new appliances (some of which are tricky to master the use of). But to start at the beginning, I woke up around 5:30 am last Thursday and was driven to LAX by my wonderful boyfriend, TuckerJ I met the group (well part of the group) at the airport in front of our gate…we mingled about our lives—where we are from, what school we ... read more