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... a stronger tie to their family.

Finally, people take really good care of family members-even those who aren’t in the immediate family. Many families have a grandparent living with them once that person can’t care for themselves any longer. It’s not rare to see other families who have taken in someone else who is down on their luck, such as an uncle, cousin, nephew or sister. This is a change from the US system, where we seem ...

... the attic that will be isolated better; collect, carry and pick up isolation materials, windows and more building materials and furniture from an old huge building in town that will be demolished soon; cooking, cleaning and preparing breakfast.... :D Lots of fun! I even repaired my bike completely and my brakes are now working better than they ever did (we are prepared for the next snowy mountain!)

... 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 ...

... one that I'm guilty of having at one point.

Anyways, the whole debacle was a confidence booster. How sadistic of me. Ah well...it's hard to watch something like that and not feel a little bit of pride that you've progressed so far from the deer in headlights that showed up on the first day. If nothing else, I can easily go back to the U.S. with enough bragging rights to say that I was able to get thrown in a strange linguistic ...

... 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.

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 ...

... que tipo de vida, gentes y trabajo me esperarian allí...

Pero todo esto no era más que parte de la diversión, o eso me repetia a mi mismo. En aquel mismo instante, mi madre me recordaba que era hora de levantarse, y que en hora y media saliamos con mi padre hacia madrid en el AVE de las 8.12.

Después de haber conseguido guardar y cerrar la maleta de nuevo con los útiles de aseo y todos los zapatos que pude meter (encontrar mi talla en china seria una de las múltiples ...

... over to the apartment of a few other girls in the program. There is a concert starting at 11, so we watched it from the balcony. Went to the bars afterwards. It was absolutely packed...and crazy.

It should be an interesting night.

On a somewhat different note, I'm starting feel like I'm actually fitting in here. Obviously as soon as I start speaking (or attempting to speak in some cases) Spanish, I identify myself as an ...

... back again before I leave Spain if I feel I can afford the time, though there are still so many things to see, I doubt I´ll make it back. But I´ll definately keep in touch with my new friends. I now have a host family for myself in India, thanks to one of the anglos who is from there, and a good idea of places in Morocco to visit, as another anglo just came from there. One of the best things about traveling is learning of other peoples adventures ...

... shutters and patterns in the rendering. I reckon this is as cool as Prague, and it reminds me of Oz a bit too, the dry earth, and you can tell it gets absolutely baking in summer, lurvely. Also not very touristy, local tourism mostly, hence the lack of English anywhere (very good for us). But chaos trying to get trains etc. Now, the food as always, its superb, lots of jamon (like prosciuto) and tapas galore. Out here you get free tapas with every drink that you order, so you can try ...