Well it's been a while since my last blog, but it has been a very busy week this past week! On thursday night/friday morning at 2 am 15 of us boarded a train and headed for Portugal!! The train ride was 6 hours long, and with the time change we arrived in Lisbon bright and early at 7 am! We woke ourselved up by visiting a cafe and ordering our first cups of portugese coffee, which is basically espresso. After loading ourselves with caffeine, we started our trek ...

Buenas Dias! Today was our second day of school, but our first day of real classes, yippee! We got up nice and early and trekked down to the bus stop to catch the bus to campus, as its about a 20 minute bus ride. After arriving we settled down in our classroom and prepared ourselves for 3 full hours of pure spanish. Our first professor was very nice and easy to understand as was our last, but our second professor was near impossible to understand. I think I caug...

Hola mis amigos! Today in the beautiful Caceres we had our first day of school! After a rough morning of getting up at 8 am, Katie and I ate some delicious breakfast and headed to the bus stop so we could get to campus! We had to use the public bus system and it was a real change from the usual calm cyride, there was lots of pushing from the residents and regular riders of the bus, but after about 15 minutes we arrived at our new school! The campus is very diffe...

So I have been here in wonderful Spain for 2 days already but it feels like I have been here for much longer! After a successful day of random orientation yesterday, I came home with a bus pass and a library card, yay! After learning all of the basics about Caceres we were set free for the rest of the weekend! So after a short siesta Katie and I met up with the rest of the group and we headed to the old town part of caceres. It is an area filled with beautiful ar...

Well here I am! My permanent destination for the next 3 months!! After getting up at the crack of dawn (320 am) in London and flying to the very confusing airport of Madrid, I met up with the 19 other brave iowa staters who are going to be in Caceres with me. We hung about in the airport for about 4 hours when our directors came and directed us to a bus, and we were onwards to Caceres! They said it would take 3 hours, but it took 4, but that actually felt like 2...