Hotel Catedral Valladolid

... do during this time (i.e. shopping). Often, it led me to believe that the Spanish were just lazy and liked lounging around a lot. However as time went on, I started to see that siesta actually allowed time for something that we almost never have back home-unrushed family time.

The US is a culture of eating on-the-go. We grab McDonalds, a sandwich, a hotdog, a hotpocket…anything, and shove it down while we run from task to task. Lunch in ...

After our snow adventure we still needed 1 and a half day to cycle to Valladolid. Luckily we found another cute abandoned house next to the road where we did manage to built a fireplace, a chimney and mount our tent in the smallest room (1,5 x 2 mt!!). I am a bit afraid of the cold and know that it has a big influence on my mood, but we are doing well and I get more convinced that we can travel further by ...

... 4-Sunday December 6
I will be milling around Berlin with no definite plans :D

Monday, December 7
8:20am: LEAVE Berlin
11:35am: ARRIVE in Madrid
Then find some train or Bus headed back to Valladolid. I should be back around 2, so that will be nice. I'll have half of monday and all of Tuesday to get stuff done still, before I have to go back to school and cram hardcore.

Bon voyage :)

... I’m talking about big pea sized frozen balls of ice pouring down upon everything! We tried to wait but we figured it would only get worse and ran into the van. Luckily Chris knows how to handle driving in these conditions but we noticed 3 cars had spun off the highway because I am sure none of them had winter tires. The funny thing is that after driving about 1 km there wasn’t ...

... 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 Spanish that we did know. We were afraid to move...afraid to do anything wrong. The first few days consisted of us awkwardly trying to fit into cultural changes that we were unaware existed.

This is exactly what they were like. I asked them how much ...

... around a while for lab work to come back. My grammar professor had to take off to teach another class, so she was replaced by the director of the program that I'm in who got me through all the paperwork.

Around 2pm, I got put in a bed and hooked up to my IV (by a 17 year old, no less). From there, things moved pretty fast. I got taken up to the inpatient area of the hospital, where another one of my professors, the directors nephew, my host mom and ...

... aeropuertuarios, terminaramos subiendo en un avión Boeing 777-400 de KLM Asia, en los asientos 4 y 5 respectivamente... 4 y 5? eso es al principio del avión... si amigos, bussiness class con destino Shanghai, y uno de los 10 sueños de mi vida se acaba de hacer realidad, volar en primera clase y encima durante 9 horas. Tiempo que fue más que suficiente para disfrutar del asiento cama reclinable 180º, con masaje incorporado, televisión personal, videojuegos, menu de primera y ...

... that I didn't appreciate enough in the US: Football, reliable internet access, stores that are open on Sundays, stores that are open between 230-5pm, stores that allow you to use their bathroom without buying something, cold milk, cold chocolate milk, peanut butter, being surrounded by people who are your racial/national/ethnic peers, the campus library, being able to leave lights on even if it's not absolutely necessary, long ...

... Grammar
9:30-10:30>Conversation< br>11:30-12:30> Art
12:30-1:30> Literature

Tuesday:
8:30-9:30>Gramma r
9:30-10:30>Conversation
10:3 0-11:30>Literature
12:30-1:30> Art
1:30-2:30>Culture

Wedn esday:
8:30-9:30>Grammar
9:30- 10:30>Conversation
11:30-12:30> ;Literature
12:30-1:30>Culture

Thursday:
8:30-9:30>Grammar< br>9:30-10:30>Conversation
Valladolid, Castile-León, Spain and Canary Islands emizner

Spent the morning in Bordeaux, there was a greaat breakfast at the hotel, and we ate outside by the pool. We looked around the city and Port where there was a naval ship, but we just went into the gift shop, cute port city with stone buildings and castle wall structures. Then we headed towards spain, another crazy toll of $24EU to enter. We drove along the northern coast at first, by Bilbao. There was a beautiful inlet where the ocean came in towards the highway ...