Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening All. I am in Australia and have been for just under two weeks. This time has been extremely busy for me and only now have classes truly begun to contribute an ounce or two of regularity to my days. My schedule is excellent, if a little grueling. I have classes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays leaving Mondays and ( Read more... )

10 July 2008 (I think...written from the air)

I am flying somewhere between Singapore and Australia...probably closer to the former since we didn't take off too long ago. As I am not sure exactly which day it is in which part of the world, I am going to call it July 10th in order to acknowledge the day that is missing otherwise. I don't have a ( Read more... )

8 julio 2008

I am unable to express exactly how it feels to peel my eyes away from my last glance at the city, already too far away to see, that has been my home for the past six months. It is impossible to feel happy because of the wonderful people that I could not fit in my suitcases and thus had to leave behind. No, it is decidedly not happiness ( Read more... )

I suppose I got my wish--It's now Friday after my exams are over!!! This is awesome. I had my Pragmática Intercultural exam today at 9:00am and I was finished by around 11:15. I suppose I could have studied more, but I ended up writing quite a bit. It was a tough exam format for me because the professor gave the title of a course theme that we ( Read more... )

I'm not trying to rush things along because I do want to enjoy every second that I have left in Spain...but I could definitely live with skipping these next few days so that my exams would end and I wouldn't have to do them. I just had my first exam this morning for my Women in Antiquity class (La mujer en la antigüedad). I definitely studied ( Read more... )

Now that summer has finally decided to make an appearance in the east of Spain I have been trying to balance outside time with study time. The week or two that schools were closed in New Jersey due to extreme temperatures that made the eastern seaboard feel like some species of inferno, Valencia was enjoying equally extreme amounts of rain... ( Read more... )

Today my cousin Daniel is graduating from high school. I need to take a minute to embarrass him publicly on the internet and congratulate him for this accomplishment. I am so proud of who he has become. Of course, there was never any doubt that he would graduate and pass this milestone in his life with flying colors as he has done, but getting ( Read more... )

I can not believe the weekend I have just had. This is probably one of the most exciting times I have had in Valencia so far.

Yesterday was the final lunch with the group of Americans. All twenty-five of us were there save one. Patricia was spending time with friends who were visiting from home, but it was exciting to be almost all together again. ( Read more... )

Since I have absolutely no desire to study or do anything remotely related to my classes, and since my last blog entry was entirely lacking in interesting information, I figure I might as well procrastinate in a productive way. I am currently sitting in the "biblioteca" that is located in my residence hall. There are a few books in this room, to be ( Read more... )

Frightening as it is, I must update the blog to commemorate the one-month marker. A month from yesterday will be my last day of the RU program...although it will not actually be my last day in Spain. I have a vacation planned with my flatmate, Ana. We'll be going to the north of Spain hopefully to Oviedo to meet Mom's old host family and to Basque ( Read more... )