My peanut butter and Yerba Mate intake has dramatically increased, my toenail has grown back, and my free time has dwindled to the few minutes before the lecture begins. In case you haven’t guessed, I am back in school. And while I know this year will be the best one yet, we’re off to a…
Today, a friend of mine asked me what I’m planning to do when I get home and I honestly don’t know the answer. Work, I guess? Maybe take a SoulCycle class or two? Honestly, nothing sounds all that great compared to this past month. Though all of us were quite turned off from Granada at…
Well, because it’s just too early to start studying for the final, and I did very well on the midterm, it’s time to party. Which we did at an Italian restaurant on Friday with 7 pitchers of sangría. Over the weekend, the whole program bussed to Córdoba and Sevilla, two cities with some of the…
Mom, I’m so sorry, but I went topless on a beach. And I loved it. This past weekend, the gang traveled to Ibiza - a little island in the Mediterranean best known for its insane parties. Wikipedia will say it’s also home to some “quiet villages and sandy coves,” but I’m not quite sure those…
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In Spain, McDonald’s doesn’t smell like aggressive amounts of high cholesterol with subtle undertones of streak mark underwear. The McFlurries are infinitely better and they offer potato wedge fries. America, step it up. We arrived in Granada yesterday after a whirlwind 64 hour (3 nights, 2 days) trip to Madrid. All of us were shocked…
The top three words of this week? Como se dice. Meaning "how do you say..." in Spanish. Meaning we started the real study abroad thing and our blissful days wandering around Barcelona have come to an end. Don’t worry, spirits are still high and we’ve added a few more friends to the troupe (enter Tessa,…
"That today everything happens to you, and that everything is beautiful." This morning I had my coffee sitting on a patio next to La Sagrada Familia. Actually, it was more of an “afternoon coffee”; I woke up at about 1:30 pm. Either way, it really does not get much better than this. I mean, I’m…
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When the time came for me to pack up my life in suburbia and make the big drive in the family mini van down to Los Angeles, I had very few apprehensions about my new life in sunny Southern California. After all, I worked so hard in high school to be attending my dream school,…
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