so i've been home for a few days. and i've honestly been sort of running on autopilot since i left sevilla, preparing for exactly this time in my life where i'm not in spain and i'm painfully aware of it and there's nothing i can do about it. today is my first day back to work and i'm already exhausted by the thought. just having to answer ( Read more... )

so after a three hour delay in madrid, a missed flight in dc, a five hour layover, sixteen hours of travel and 25 hours of being awake on two hours of sleep i am finally, finally home.

i have to write before i go to sleep because then i'm going to be up and going to madrid and once i get into madrid, everything i want to say tonight will be gone. tonight, a lot of things finally fell into place for me. i understand why people travel. i understand what it means to really fall in love with a city. i understand how it's a longing ( Read more... )

i could live in sevilla. and i would love to live in triana specifically. it's such an amazing little neighborhood. it's so quiet and unassuming and tiny. the food is delicious and inexpensive (unless you eat along the river) and the people are really nice. it's just a lot of families and no one harasses you or is loud. all of sevilla seems to be ( Read more... )

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i'm sitting in the bus station in granada with a little over an hour to spare, and so i finally have the chance to sit down and write out what i've experienced in the last couple of days ( Read more... )

i'm sure you guys are going to be so glad this week is over. these are more spanish national team training pictures, both from yesterday and today. yesterday, sergio wasn't at practice which scared me so much and just alksjflasjk. it made me very sad and worried but we were really close to iker and i had already decided beforehand that i was going ( Read more... )

i am an incredibly lucky person. this trip has been insane as it is, but these past two days have really made it hit home. after the insanity that was saturday night (well, the entire day, really), rey and i decided to be completely useless on sunday. we literally did nothing. it was quite spectacular and precisely what i needed. it ended with a ( Read more... )

okay so imma share these and then go to bed. a few important notes ( Read more... )