its officially december.  its amazing how time flies when your having fun...or not.  i leave spain in 19 days.  wow.  im really going to miss it...maybe not living in alicante, but spain.  it really is an amazing country and its made me appreciate so much about home and myself.

thanksgiving was good.  different.  last year i wasnt home either... ( Read more... )

thanksgiving is pretty much over in spain but, every year my mother forces everyone that eats thanksgiving dinner anywhere in her vicinity to participate in a terrible game; we must go around the table before eating naming the things we are thankful for.  it's torture.  this year i will be producing that list via livejournal:

- friends:  this year ( Read more... )

i’m alive.  after flossie and hitting the one month left mark, I had a small temper tantrum combined with a half mental breakdown and thought it was best to be MIA for a bit.  I’m better now - well, in a better place and working towards mentally digesting the alicante experience.

mom, annie and loren are here.  it's weird to be reminded of home ( Read more... )

mom and annie put Flossie to sleep yesterday.

i´m not really sure there are words.  we have had Flossie for as long as i can remember...before we bought moms house.  she´s been a part of my life forever, part of my childhood, the place i remember as home even though i don´t really live there.  i remember the day katie and i found out that we got ( Read more... )

 -  it´s cold in alicante.  even in the cold...spain is still  backwards.   for example, it rained on thursday...it rained for two days.  it´s the only rain we have had since i´ve been here.  it didn´t rain hard...it was a very light rain on and off for two days. anyway, the whole city shut down.  there was no  electricity.  the street lights, ( Read more... )

 it feels super un-halloweenish here.  it´s about 70 degrees and sunny.  no leaves...mostly because there really aren´t any trees for them to fall off of.  regardless, tonight all the obnoxious americans will be costume clad in the streets of alicante.  while i will join them with sangria in the streets, i will not be wearing a costume.  well, ( Read more... )

So, last night catherine and i attended a free concert thrown by the University of Alicante.  Spanish music isn´t really my thang but, there were three different acts and it was being held pretty close to where we live - so I went.  It wasn´t as bad as i thought it was going to be:

First, it was held in a bullfighting ring.  Now, this being my ( Read more... )

Friday morning, i got up at 7 (yes, at 7!) to shower. no hot water...no warm water...nothing but cold.

ok.  im over not being able to shower - I´ll shower tonight.  go right to getting dressed.  go to take a shirt out of my closet and its covered in bleach.  and its not just one shirt...there are bleach stains on most of my shirts. now im pissed ( Read more... )

london:  Friday

breakfast at the hotel - really, really good.  traditional English breakfast = heart attack waiting to happen.  (its not a bad way to go out).  breakfast was included and huge.  eggs, bacon, sausage, stewed tomatoes, beans, cereal, oj/tea/coffee and toast (whole wheat!).  it was amazing.

the touristy highlight of Friday was the Tate ( Read more... )

special note to those other LJ kids, sorry that i´m abusing your friends page...i heart you all.

london: wednesday

last day alone.  got up early and checked out and then back into the hostel.  (whatever, europe is backwards most of the time.)  I left a.s.a.p. and attempted to go to the Fashion and Textile Museum - do not try this.  Apparently, it's ( Read more... )