Travels of a Histrionic peripatetic

Hi everyone! So the days are numbered now.....I leave in less than a week- Thursday morning to be exact. In other words, it's crunch time! Now is all about finishing assignments, packing, making sure I have everything people asked me to get, and well everything else. I can't make this too long since I still have some work to do, my host mom is making lunch for ten people because it's one of her daughter's Saint Day (Día de su santo..not sure how to translate that), and we have our last walk in Retiro Park as a way to close our trip since it was the way we began it. However, I did want to let you know that yesterday two good friends and me decided to take a class on....CHOCOLATE! Yep, chocolate. And it was wonderful. When I was younger, I enjoyed waking up early; now not so much. This class was at 10A on a Saturday, and I admit it was worth waking up early. All I had for breakfast was a cup of coffee because I was running just a little late. I am glad that it was all I a...

Hello once again! Now I will talk about the week after my birthday, which was last week. Well, this week was all about getting my work done for midterms...which wasn't so much about exams rather turning in a compilation of the work we had been doing. This meant that I had to turn in the diary that we were supposed to have kept......As many of you may know, I'm not much of a writer. I love going out, meeting people, and talking about everything- not so much writing. At least, I do not like to write if I know that I HAVE to do it; I like writing if I know it is optional, and it is then that I write my best work (in my opinion of course). For the first four days of the week, Mon-Thursday all I was doing was writing endlessly. Some of the activities were pretty amusing but I guess that I am just the kind of person who likes to do it, think about it, and talk about it, not so much write about it. But it got done eventually, and I have to say, my diary looks pretty "Isabel...

Hi everyone!!! First of all- I am so sorry I have been unable to keep up with you all. It's actually quite harder to maintain than I first suspected. However, knowing that this term is almost over, I doubt I am going to be able to say much in these next two weeks. As a matter of fact, I have less than two weeks now before I return home... time flies by and I am glad that I am enjoying every moment of it. Yesterday the entire group got back from our trip to Cordoba and Sevilla, and like always, of course I have stories to tell. I have to say, they have some beautiful men in those cities! I know I am silly, but might as well look and indulge while I can. Like I said, I doubt I will have much time to be able to recount all of my stories in a timely manner, therefore, I decided that I will continue writing about my experience when I return home. Besides, I am going to have a little more than a month before I leave for Africa. Until then, I have an essay, two presentations, and two di...

Hello once again! As I promised, I am going to write about my past weeks (in which I have miserably failed to post). For this post, we shall talk about my birthday week. To start off, Monday we did not have any classes because the professor decided to let us rest since we had just gotten back from our trip on Sunday. Therefore, Monday was completely dedicated to doing homework for the next day. All I did was go to a coffee shop with a friend; we tried to do homework but the music was getting to soft and was making us want to sleep, so we left to our own homes and continued to do homework. Tuesday we had class. I love classes with Prof. Huergo. He just has such a different manner of teaching. He uses more gestures and goes off into rants that, if you were to walk in would make no sense, but if you were paying attention all (or most) of the time, then you could follow him perfectly. Afterwards, Heather, Alyssa and I go to the Cafeteria/Restaurant downstairs. Remember earlier I had mentio...

That's how you say hello in three different languages- English (of course), Spanish, and Galician. As you can tell, I am back from those fours days of fantastic travel. Galicia is absolutely wonderful; it is nothing like the Spain that we all imagine. Imagine New York and then compare it to, say one of the greenest places in the US (it was hard for me to figure out what was even comparable to what I saw). It is more of a spiritual area. It is the home to the end of "the Road to Santiago." As some of you may know, every year hundreds of people travel the road for a spiritual rebirth so to speak. ....So to tell you the truth, I started to write this the day I got back- October 4th. Unfortunately, since then so much more work has piled up that I have been unable to write as often I would have wished. Keeping that in mind, within these past two weeks SO MUCH MORE has happened! So what I will do is recount those stories in a series of posts. I still remember everything prett...

Sitting down you see some of the most interesting people. I think the most interesting that I have seen is that of children of about 5 or 6 years sitting in a baby carriage- their parents pushing them around. How crazy and abnormal is that??? Definitely not used to that- then again I’m used to children running around, screaming at the top of their lungs. Although I have not been coming in as much, it is nice to know that those who work here still remember you. They actually talk with you and ask you about, for example, your weekend. Once that friendship is really established, then they ask you why you have not called them in order to go out that weekend (I should know; it happened only a couple of moments ago). Oh the differences in cultures around the world- how lovely! Again..I will finish later as I have little time. Until next time.

Greetings everybody! I know I have not written in a very long time, and I am sorry about that. As I had mentioned before, my computer has been misbehaving and well, I do not have the greatest internet access in my room. Also, I have been out a lot more. Although I have not explored as much as normally did the first week, I still have explored. I think, however, the idea of not exploring has to do with the fact that I have become more familiar with the places. As I had mentioned earlier, we have “monitors” who are Spanish and are around our same age. Well, since the last time that I wrote, I have become more familiar with my own “hired friend”- as our professor put it. She is a great person! She is a Poli-Sci student at one of the universities. The great thing about her is that, not only have we met her, but she has also invited many of her friends that are also now our own friends. And let me tell you, they sure know how to party in the city that never sleeps! Well, it’s not only that ...