Alcora Hotel San Juan De Aznalfarache

... which were tile mosaics. Our director is pretty much a tour guide so he was able to show us everything and tell us what they used each room for and everything. It was pretty interesting. The most interesting thing that we saw was the Theatre that was in the middle of the town. One day a man was digging a hole by his house and he found some roman ruins and it turned out to be the theatre and they dug up the entire theater that was still in tact. They ...

... It's not that it's unmanageable - on the contrary, I was quite impressed with how little I actually packed in - but one can imagine that 3 months' worth of anything weighs a fair amount (well, maybe not if you're anorexic and all your clothes are made out of paper serviettes...but I suppose even then you'd have to take along all sorts of things, like Donna Claire catalogues and other things to remind you of your goal). So we decided that we ...

... actually from los gatos! how random... anyway, i decided to take an overnight bus from lisbon to seville. our bus got in a couple hours early, so we arrived at 5 am when it was still pitch black outside! of course, all bus stations are a bit dodgy (some strange guy was going around selling drugs, and later lit something on fire so the cops came by...) and i definitely didn't want to go wandering around this strange city by myself in the dark! so ...

... I think other people can walk along with them too and they all wear the same thing, which is something that looks a lot like the things that the KKK wears. There have been posters with photos of people dressed like this all over the city in the weeks leading up to Semana Santa and it is really disturbing to see them since it means an entirely different thing in the U.S. Carmen told me and Kristina that the KKK took this idea from ...

... a and queued up for 3 hours. Then once inside we took a number and waited another hour. Then we went into an office, showed our passports and magically got an NIE number. They told us to go to the bank and pay €6 and then return. By 1:30 p.m. we had certificates in hand. Woooohooo. Hurdle number one of new life - check! For the rest of the day we enjoyed Seville and went for a beer that evening to celebrate. On March 1 we walked to the river and ...

Hey Everyone! So I am a week in my program, but it feels like I have been here for about a month. Everything is great. I´ve made some great friends so far who are all super nice, chill and pumped to be here like me. I moved in with my family on Wednesday. They are great. I have two parents and 4 siblings. 3 of the 4 are married though, so only one, Abel who is 30 lives at home. My parents are so cute and nice. They are relaxed too which is really great becasue I ...

... can not match what I have witnessed here. All apartment complexes have timed lights, you can't find incandescent bulbs (they have all switched to the lower energy-consuming fluorescent varieties), and showers are short. SUV's are rare, the media constantly covers climate change and it's dangers, and public transportation is used by everyone. Of course, we are on the way, but as a culture we are so wasteful, which is most striking when considering the vast ...

... as well. We're in the same program and even living only a street apart. It was good to have someone that I could be with that whole time because everyone pretty much knows how nervous I was! In the Madrid airport, we sat down at a little cafe because we had a couple hours to kill and we had our first legal drink! We got a little bottle of wine and it was delicious. But then we realized that it was only 10:30 in the morning ...

so a quick visit to spain on our way to morocco via the 6am bus from lagos that we just made, running for a bus with your pack on not my fav thing to be doing at that time of the morning. also the fact that i got home at 5am did not assist the ease of running through the streets for a bus. thats what lagos does to you i think, makes you stay out late drinking cider in the streets with a bunch of clowns. we had a very different experience in lagos compared to others ...

... we did). After an uneventful bus trip (I dozed) we arrived in Seville. The Swedish contingent were staying in a differetn part of town and decided to take a taxi there as there are no metros in Seville, only buses. Meanwhile, hayfever struck again. I never got it in Australia, or Japan but set foot in Spain and I can't stop sneezing. I was fine in Portugal but as soon as I got on that ferry I could feel my nose going funny. I'm ok inside (air conditioning) but ...