Blogs from Castile & León, Spain, Europe - page 92

Hey guys! I hope everyone is doing well. I am sooo ready for everyone at IU to come back from spring break so I can talk to yall more and hear about break! I miss yall a lot...especially my roomie...its kind of lonely at night sitting in my room. I'm not able to watch you do Kathy Smith :( When yall get back, I really want to hear from you! I'm not going to write much now because I really need to get some sleep. It is 12:15 am here and I'm waking up at 6:30 to catch a train to Madrid for the weekend with Emily and Rachel. We are meeting Ryann at the airport on Sunday morning. This has been a very looong week...very exhausting and draining, but I love it all at the ... read more

Hey guys! I hope yall are doing well! Thanks for the messages that yall have sent so far! Its's fun to get them and be reminded of home. Things have been crazy since I got here. I flew out of Atlanta at 6:45 pm on Sunday and got to Madrid at 9:05 am (8 hour, 20 minute flight). I am now 6 hours ahead of you here. I then had to take a 2 different subways to get to the train that took me to Avila. I then took a taxi from the train station to my residencia (the place that I am staying). I finally got settled into my room around 2 pm, so to say the least, it was a crazy trip to get here. I met up with 2 of the other girls ... read more

Wow! What a day! Just got back from a wonderful day of sledding in Navacerrada in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range 1 hour north west of Madrid. In case you haven't been following the weather it has been snowing all over Europe for the past week and Spain is no exception. Let me tell you, it was coming down thick today and it was freezing! So, I headed up this morning to Navacerrada with a group from the school where I work. The school provided the sleds and the transportation so all we had to do was show up and pay for lunch. It was great! We spent the morning sledding down a slope almost at the top of the mountain. We were like kids again, making sled trains and running over people. It as ... read more

So I woke up this morning at 7:00, to leave by 7:30, so we get to the train station by 8:00 for an 8:45 train ride. It was a 2 hour ride so I got to sleep a bit, but it was uncomfortable. So my suitemates, this girl named Jenny, and I went to Salamanca. When we got there, we went straight to the old Plaza Mayor and got some breakfast. Because I don't drink coffee, I'm always getting Hot Chocolate, which is no shame. It so good! It's actual melted chocolate!! I'm sure it's not the best for my health, but you only live once, right? So yeah, then we walked around town. It was cold and we didn't want to spend a lot of money so we looked at a lot of architecture. You ... read more

Apparently Spain doesn’t seem to believe in school. This Tuesday and Thursday are holidays, so the students decided to vote to have a “puente” or “bridge,” as in a 10-day weekend! A couple friends and I had planned on renting a car and road-tripping around Spain, but by Sunday morning we still hadn’t convinced a homeless man to let us use him (yeah…you have to be 21…and I thought I was a grown-up here…), so we hopped on a train to Salamanca, home of the oldest university town in Spain. 9:30pm-4:30am: Horribly uncomfortable and cramped bus ride. 4:30am: Here we are Salamanca! Where are you? Of course we had no plans and not even the bus station was open to provide us with shelter. 4:35am: Our first roof! Okay, it might have been inside of one ... read more