wooooah. i got home last night! it's nice to be home, but it's a litle bit weird and depressing. i'm having reverse culture shock more than i think i had culture shock in the first place. my parents removed my bed from my room and now it's in spike's room (and my room is now basically a storage room)... SO i'll be put in the guest room. not all bad ( Read more... )

today marks the end of my last weekend in granada ( Read more... )

it has officially turned summer in southern spain. they weren't kidding when they say you go from heavy jackets one day to a tank top the next. it is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nice out today, like seriously i can't get over it. it's really hot, though, and i can see the use of the siesta now more than ever. food +extreme warmth= sleepy ( Read more... )

my pseudo-euro transformation is complete!

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so, well, a lot has happened since my last update. by far the biggest/ most exciting thing was that i met up with jessie in geneva and then we adventured to prague. it was an awesome awesome vacay ( Read more... )

i went to london last weekend. it was SO FAB ( Read more... )

the last few weeks have been busy, and not at the same time. i don't know if i've mentioned it before, but everyday is like two different days thanks to the big lunch and siesta time after it. my time here seems to be passing realllly quickly, but something that happened in the morning two days ago seems like a lot longer...ago. i can't really ( Read more... )

i started teaching english to the gypsy girls on tuesday. it was crazy. they remembered us from the day we came and introduced ourselves, which was cute. i think the class went pretty well, but proved that it will not be easy. dannielle and i will be going every tuesday for two hours to teach, hopefully preparing them enough for the test they're ( Read more... )

i ended up going to almeria for the first half of the week, which is neither portugal nor valencia. we rented studios in a tiny little resort town called san jose which is in a national park in almeria (the province), called cabo de gata. non tourist season, it has a population of about 175, and january is definitely not tourist season; we only saw ( Read more... )

hey, remember that really super-awesome-neat-pretty sony bravia coomercial with the superballs bouncing down the hill in SF to jose gonzalez singing heartbeats ( Read more... )