Well, this has been an interesting week! My third roomate Paolo finally came. He's pretty cool, although he has been eating my jam. >:( He is a graduate student from Colombia who is studying telecommunications. He told me he was in the Colombian army in the mountains, but swears he never saw marijuana or cocane ( Read more... )

Adam has inspired me to relate some more interesting revelations Spain has given me ( Read more... )

Well something interesting happened today. I was walking to the Centre d'Idiomes to sort out a problem with my spanish class when three girls with umbrellas hailed me and told me to get under their umbrellas because it was raining. Well, the sun was shining, definitely not raining, but I decided to play along and got under one of their umbrellas. ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back in Valencia. Castellon was a lot of fun, but I guess that eventually one must come back to reality. Not that I'm really living in reality at the moment; its more like vaction lite. I still have to go to classes, and take care of life things, but not to the same level as if I were at home.

I got my mailbox key finally so I went to the ( Read more... )

So, I am here in Castellón typing on Marta`s computer who is Ilea`s roomate. (by the way, spanish keyboards don`t have an apostrophe key, I have to use accent marks) Ive had a grat time so far, baking cakes, picking almonds and generally having a good time. The first night I got there I helped Ilea bake a cake for her friend`s birthday party. Well ( Read more... )

Ok, quick entry because I have to catch a train to Castellon soon.

Yesterday was my only day of class this week. I love only having two day school weeks, and when one of those days is canceled for a national holiday... well it's party time people! Hence, i'm going to Castellon today to visit Jenny and Ilea and staying for the weekend. It should be ( Read more... )

Well, as I have said before, all is wonderful here in Valencia, the Spaniards still have mullets which is still hard to get over, but I know my way around the city really well now, so there is always some progress. I made salsa today which was exciting. The other day I found a package of fresh serrano chiles so I made salsa with some today, and I ( Read more... )

Spain is a fascinating country. While on one hand it is very progressive and modern, on the other side it is extremely traditional. I guess every country has its idiosyncricies, but some of them are hard for me to get my head around. For example, i had wireless internet intalled a few days ago (thank the lord!) but i still haven't signed a contract ( Read more... )

Photos of Valencia!

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I have now been in Spain for 21 days. I cannot believe that time has been going by so quickly. Overall, everything is going quite well. I don't have class on fridays so I have more time to travel, I have made some really fun friends here in Valencia. The people that I spend most of my time with are three girls from the UK: Hannah, Emily, and Laura ( Read more... )