Ok, I finally finished putting up the pictures and writing on them. A little bit more about the trip, we have to take a 4 hour bus ride to Madrid before we can go anywhere outside of Spain, so that makes travel a little difficult. Our flight left at 6 am, so we had to check in at 4 am so we just stayed in the airport over night. We were pretty tired the next day but still had Belgian waffles and walked around the city a little. We went to a chocolate shop whe...

Hey I'm glad everyone's enjoying the blog-- I haven't figured out how to respond to the comment board so I'll say it here! For the trip to Brussels I'm going to put up pictures and then use the description boxes to tell the story-- I think that'll work best. And yes the q was in the a spot and the x was in the w spot and after about 5 words I got tired of correcting everything. The Spanish keyboard is wierd here too since it has accent marks, but that one was ...

First night in Brussels; everything is going great except this French keyboard. We ended up in a hostel for the night-- our couch surfing guy was nice and showed us around the city today but he was in the process of remodeling his grandparents pub into a house and art gallery and among other things his 'bathroom' was outside!! So the we decided unanimously to stay in the city: at a youth hostel which is really nice. My first hostel experience, and it seems rea...

Another day of classes and not much else. Oh, except rain. Which it hasn't stopped doing since we got here. Got a phone today, Jess, this is for you. I decided to go with a new company called Yoigo, it uses the same towers here in Spain as one of the leading companys, Movistar, but its international plan is a lot cheaper. Abroad it piggybacks other networks, like TMobile. I had to get a 'tribanda' phone which means it can get signal abroad, so it was a litt...

Lazy Sunday. It rained ALL day so we had to scratch plans for the hiking trip. Its still raining now even. I hit Mass at Santiago's this morning, it was pretty neat because it was a kids Mass like we do sometimes (and they talk the same rate I comprehend so it works great) AND this time we got a sing along sheet. Which still didn't help. And the rest of the day was spent playing Wii with my little sister and one of her friends and doing homework. No superbo...