Hotel Diamante Beach Calpe

... we've gotten some odd looks) and finding free, weird things to attend (presentations about gypsies in film). Also a random sampling of street vendors, and a fair amount of window shopping (something that Spaniards have mastered...and it's no wonder...with siesta in there they don't have that much time to actually shop IN the store).<br><br>I uploaded new pictures from Facebook from our girls night on Thursday. :)<br>

... the school, I got a taste of Spain's private health care system, which is apparently quite a bit nicer than the public system. The doctor at the first place did a few tests and told us that he didn't feel it was appendicitis, however he suggested we get some tests done to make sure since I was showing classic signs of it. <br><br>We then headed from the clinic off to Campo Grande Hospital, the main hospital in central Valladolid, to get some analysis ...

Returning to the US is seriously going to be one heck of a transition. Namely returning to school, where I'll have to balance actual work with swimming and whatever else. After coming off our 10 day vacation last week, we had a full 4 days of school, and are now headed into a 4 day weekend since there is no school on Monday. My life is rough.<br><br>At least we had a fair amount of work to do this week. We had two papers both due on Wednesday ...

... I watched a group of 20-some year old American guys walk through the courtyard, yelling about how boring the church was. One of them exclaimed, &#8220;I swear to [expletive]ing God, if I have to look at another [expletive]ing church I&#8217;m going to [expletive]ing blow my brains out. Can we please just go to the god [expletive] bars?&#8221; This was outside of one of the city&#8217;s oldest and most well respected churches, in a crowded courtyard ...

... locker was also complicated, so I needed help with that from the secuirity guard. By the time it actually came to finding the books I needed, I was kind of distraught. I asked them where the short stories section was (because we have to do a compare and contrast essay for literature), and the librarian, likely thinking that I had the mental capacity of a 8 year old at that point, showed me to the childrens books. It took another few minutes to explain that ...

... end had us describe an imaginary encounter with an alien using preterite/imperfect forms. I got a little carried away with odd, abstract details. My professor will probably think I'm insane. Oh wellllll.<br><br>Now I'm just getting packed, and printing out all my tickets for the weekend. The bus to Madrid leaves at 12:30am, so my plan is to try to sleep from 8pm-11:30pm, just so I have a ...

... was lots to see and do and most importantly we had excellent weather. It may sound as if we spent the whole time sightseeing, but in fact we spent a lot of time just sitting outside the caravan, soaking up the sun and reading. As a matter of fact, disaster almost struck, as we were in danger of running out of books. We have topped up our "library" whenever we could, by swapping with other travellers, or visiting ...

... the hills in the hinterland, and there was no city with churches or museums to provide a distraction. The forecast was unchanged for the next week, so after 3 nights we decided to change our plans and head back inland to where the weather was supposed to be better. The trip south took us over the Cordilera Cantabrica, a range of mountains along the northern coast of Spain, rising to 1500m where we crossed it and to 1600m in the Picos ...

... night back home, was 'BOOM, BOOM, BOOM' as one firework after another was let off around the neighbourhood - and these were not the 'guy fawkes backyard jobs' this was serious stuff. Of course, the outcome was stunning, as every 30 seconds the sky lit up above the ocean, and there was no doubt we were seeing the New Year in. This lasted for a good 30 minutes or more, and I was amazed the little ones didn't wake from ...

... the hotel, and take the bus back to Madrid, where we´ll have one final celebration before we all go our own ways and the spaniards try to integrate their new skills back into a spanish-only culture. All of the anglos have their own paths, as well. some of us are backpacking, others flew in just for this week and are heading back to england or australia. Others have liked it so much they decided to stay at vaughntown for 1 more week. I´m considering ...