Okay, I caved. I´m now on Facebook, as most of you know, because I sent friend requests to you. Other than that, not much happening here, other than I´m beginning to freak out about exams and packing and making flights.

Well, I almost know when all my finals will be. Latest I have so far is the 24st, which gives me about half a week to wind down before heading back to the States, although I think we still have class after our finals (it´s a weird system ( Read more... )

Okay, so Angela and I almost didn't make it back to Oviedo, due to a lovely time mix up. See, the Spanish use both the 24 hour clock (aka military time) and the 12 hours clock, like we're used to. They switch back and forth almost randomly. So when we went to buy our tickets to and from Madrid at the automatic ticket machine, Angela hit the 8:00 ( Read more... )

Yep. It´s hot here. Thank goodness the hostel has airconditioning. And free internet! oooh ( Read more... )

Barcelona was awesome, especially since I had a tour guide (aka Blaine) to take me around after our progam was done with its scheduled activities. And the weather could not have been better (ok, maybe a little cooler in the afternoons...but oh well). And I managed to not get robbed! But I just got in this morning on the night train, and I have ( Read more... )

It feels like the next two weeks or so around just going to be Spring Break all over again...Tomorrow night I leave for Barcelona with the AHA program (yay for seeing Blaine!), come back Wednesday morning, have two days of class, then I´m going to Madrid and Toledo with my friend Angela for four days ( Read more... )

Okay, so there´s this asshole on the icthyosis board who keeps asking questions about if he can prevent his children from having ichthyosis vulgaris. Not a bad question, normally...however, he wants to prevent them as in *terminate* any baby of his that has IV. IV is the mildest form of ichthyosis there is, so much so that most cases go undiagnosed ( Read more... )

Parents are definitely coming to Vancouver!! Yay!

However, *my* ticket has yet to be purchased. Stupid blackout dates on frequent flier miles...

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This was kinda amusing...Today I was instructed by a store lady on how to properly carry my umbrella ( Read more... )