My room

Arrival

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January 7th 2011
So I arrived today around 8:00 in the morning (local time here, so about 2 am there). The program that UF uses was super organized. They had a man waiting in the airport with our names on a card, he then drove us straight to our apartment and a lady met him there. She showed us up, gave us our keys etc. The building is very cool and probably in the best location we could have asked for. Our view i ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more