Hey all~
Buona Sera, from Italia! I’m not sure if I ever mentioned that I had traveling plans after my semester ended… I’ve been here in Rome with my uncle this weekend, and tomorrow I’m leaving for Germany for 10 days! I feel EXTREMELY lucky to have this opportunity and I’m looking forward to it! I’m [...]

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Happy Friday 13th, for the second time this year! You know what’s funny, is that Friday the 13th doesn’t mean anything here! For Spaniards, their day of bad luck is Tuesday the 13th. I also learned last month in intensive month that another superstition/luck thing in Spain is that if you step in dog poop [...]

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Well I must say that after this semester, I think I might have a tough time handling many more Midwest winters. It has been consistently sunny and in the 50s/60s for the past 2 weeks! I can’t wait for a few more weeks when it gets warm enough in the morning that I can start [...]

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I was going to write a few weeks ago, so happy late Valentine’s Day! If anyone is wondering, it actually is celebrated here too. As if the Spaniards needed another excuse for PDA! There were tons of couples being all lovey-dovey today, and all the shops have been selling flowers and cards and all that [...]

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I have to tell you about my host mom, Mamache. She cracks all 3 of us girls up every night. She never thinks we eat enough and always teases us or pretends to be really worried when we tell her we’ve had enough food. Even tonight (we had pasta, yummm), she knows she always gives [...]

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Hola todos! I’m sorry it’s been awhile since updating, I just haven’t been doing much this week except classes. This week felt like it took forever for some reason… I think part of it is the fact that it has been raining a ton lately, pretty much everyday. Oh well, at least spring will be [...]

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I haven’t talked about the food here in awhile and thought I might. First of all, I am in absolute heaven because we have a bread at EVERY SINGLE MEAL. Between Samantha, Jennifer and I, we go through at least one or two baguettes every day. Those who know me well know that I would [...]

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Today was my first day of class!! This morning could not have gone worse. I was planning on getting up around 7 or 7:15 to do my hair and makeup since all of the women here look gorgeous ALL the time. But of course, my alarm never went off so thank goodness Sam came into [...]

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Well, we made it!! I was waiting for some free time to finally sit down and write, and now that I have it my computer is dying, and my converter isn’t compatible with its 3-prong adapter so I’ll try to write as much as I can in the 8 minutes that remain! The internet here [...]

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