Valladolid
Travel Blogs from Valladolid, Spain and Canary Islands
School, weekend visitors and the museum
... Social Structures (MTWTH 9-10), Structures and changes of an Organization (MT 7-9pm), Organizational Behavior (THF 9-11) and Geographic Tourism of Spain (MT11-12 W 10-11). They are going pretty well and I can tell that my comprehension is increasing. I ...
Doing work for the first time
... to work in La-Crosse. For the first two weeks, our homework pretty much consisted of reading 1-4 pages of some packet and then coming to class with questions. Fully reading the packet wasn't even a prerequisite, as all of it was gone over in ...
Blast from the past
... of Spanish understanding. The whole thing was hilarious for me. It was as if I was looking at Jessica and I on our first day in Valladolid. Neither of us spoke very good Spanish. Both of us were terrified to try out the bit of ...
Blahhhh
I'm getting sick. I have a sore throat and a headache. EVERYONE PRAY IT'S NOT SWINE FLU (gripe A). haha. I have a ton to do in the next 4 days. It's not cool. -Literature test -Art test -Figure out how to recover ...
water and staircases
... as soon as we turned the corner we found a drunken man laying partly in the road by a dumpster. My roommate Heike is a nurse and was concerned he had fallen and really hurt himself. He kept saying he didn’t want help, but other people walking on ...
Done. With. School.
... in order to do that. I love Spain :(. This was my last entry for INS-251, regarding re-entry into the US, leaving Spain, and dealing with re-entry shock. This is probably the most bittersweet feeling I've had in my entire life. Even more than ...
excursión a Valladolid y Turdesillas
There was an excursion to Valladolid and Tordesillas, two cities to the southwest of Pamplona, planned by the office of Cultural Activities. I had thought the excursion was for students only, but evidently it was open to the public... because there was ...
Done with classes para la semana
... than the states. Practical learning instead of cramming. Today kicks off the celebrations of the Patron Saint in Valladolid. Apparently tonight, parades of jovenes head to the streets and spray wine all over the place (while taking ...
lalalalaTraveling
... plans for October traveling. This is the plan so far: October 1-4: Rome, Italy October 9-12: Granada & Sevilla, Spain (the south) October 18-22: Dublin, Ireland October 29-November 1: Portugal Tickets are booked for all but Portugal, which is ...
This town is crazy
... that whole spectacle, I randomly started walking through the park with some 82 year old guy. I was walking around taking pictures and he started talking to me (in Spanish) about all this stuff in the park. We ended up walking for about 10 ...
First Day of school and a little bit more....
... get a good deal on some prepaid phones. It was 19 Euros for one or 20 Euros for two phones. We each got one and are now able to call people in Spain as well as home, for a relatively low price. Saturday I woke up to an empty house. Since I wasn't able to ...
Half of a semester in Spain? Check.
... sampling. Ricardo was also really nice. He's probably in his 60's, and splits his time in between the US and Valladolid, working to coordinate the program as well as a part time Italian-professor. He's used to working with ...
Less than a week
... even being carded -Making my own food -Having class in more than one room List of things I don't want to leave: -Spain weather -Friends I've made here -Public transportation -Traveling Europe on weekends -Fantastic professors -Spanish bar close -Good wine ...
First Wednesday in Spain, Not a Disaster
My first Wednesday in Spain. Usually Wednesdays are not my favorite day f the week. They tend to not go well for me. But this Wednesday was not only productive, but also pretty fun! I woke up and had another cold shower, lucky me haha. Then I got ready ...
Off to Rome for the weekend!!!
... (neither of which were overly difficult). Now I've got a whole weekend in nice, 80 degree weather, seeing the sites and checking out Roman culture. Oh...and authentic ITALIAN FOOD. Gooooood stuff. This is our first experience in ...
Valladolid must be a synonym for vacation.
... were in English, Spanish is a different story). I did mine on the life and works of Pablo Picasso, since he was born in Spain and all. I think I'm the one of the few in the class that didn't do Antoni Gaudi. The other was for literature, ...
Another week down Now I'm leaving, on a jet plane
... can sleep on the bus and the plane too, hopefully. This is my itinerary for the weekend: 10/9: 12:30 Travel from Valladolid to Madrid airport via bus 6:00am: Plane leaves Madrid airport 7:15am: Arrive in Granada airport Rest of day: Check into ...
On being "foreign"
... be a minority. You may learn what it was like for said professor. You may read the literature of famous minority writers and learn what their experience was like. But at the end of the day you are still walking out of that classroom into ...
Real class begins. ahhh
... classes...but it seems like a pretty fun city. This weekend is going to be CRAZY but fun. It's the Valladolid festival all weekend (and next weekend) and Tuesday is the patron saint day. Basically...it's a week of concerts, film, ...
Lazy Saturday
... up at about 11:30 and decided today was the day that I would unpack. I know that seems odd since I have almost been in Valladolid for a week, but for some reason I had been putting it off. I guess It just seems more permanent now that I have unpacked all ...
La excursión cultural a Valladolid y Tordesillas
... acontecimientos históricos de la Historia Universal en la Edad Moderna. Visitamos el Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid, que contiene información de los reinos de Castilla y Navarra. También visitamos el Museo de Escultura. Después ...
And the party goes on and on and on and on......
... also don't refrigerate milk here. They just put it on the shelf with the crackers. Also had my first shopping experience...and realized that the clothing sizes are a bit different here. I tried on sizes 36-42 before I finally figured out what ...
Another long weekend...off to Germany!
... the off chance that I'm kidnapped by some variety of pirates or ninjas somewhere along the way. Thursday, December 3: 7:00am: LEAVE Valladolid via Train 9:45am: ARRIVE in Madrid via Train..take the metro to the airport 12:20pm: LEAVE Madrid 3:25pm: ...
Family Stay...the drop off.
... nbsp; They were very ready for this part of our trip. Here´s how it all went down. We took a charter bus to Valladolid and had 2 stops. On the first stop only 3 students got off and met their families. It was just enough to ...
The Tumultuous Trainride
... . Maria de la Alameda- Peguerinos, Las Navas del Marques, Naval Peral, Herradon-La Canada, Avila, Arevalo, Medina del Campo and finally Valladolid. When we got the Valladolid, Lauryn and I took separate cabs to our flats. I was a little ...
No longer nomadic
... meat and a lot of fruit) and American food (enormous pastries). Headed out to the hotel in the afternoon and sat around with the other Valladolid La-Crosse students. We finally headed out of Madrid at 1:45pm. It took about 2.5 hours to ...
First day of class!
... We really just learned about our classes and schedule for the year. Sounds like we'll have lots of days off for "fiestas" and "excursiones", which is exciting. This is my schedule for the semester. It might change, if it makes sense to take a ...
la universidad
... from campus to my flat and got ready to talk to Jason. After we talked I took a siesta for about 1 hr and a half to 2 hours (another thing Spain has the scoop on). After my nap I met up with Lauryn again for dinner. Unfortunately ...
Festivities!
... of being initially skeptical of cultural nuances, I've come to accept them. I think it's made me realize just as much about Spain as it does about the United States. The biggest thing I've become aware of here is just how much excess we have in our ...
