The morning of my flight to Milan I learned that it is a mistake to run in Madrid at 6:00 a.m. (picture people coming home from the clubs drunk and hollering "guapa" at me). Oh viva España... A quick shower and a long metro ride later, I was boarding an EasyJet flight to Milan. Taking my seat, I realized I was privileged to sit next to a 20-something who was the definition of Euro-trash or Euro-fab, I'll let you decide. This tío had the typical tigh...

Well today is April Fools, but the Spanish do not celebrate such a silly holiday. So I had to rely on the Badger Herald's satirical publication, The Dirty Bird, to get me through. Each year on April 1, the BH publishes The Dirty Bird as a satire of our other campus paper. I have to say, my friends did quite the job and provided me with yet another public laugh. On another quick journalistic note, I stumbled upon this today: http://www.stuffjournalistslike.com -...

question: (n.) a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply. The two questions that appeared on my Literature midterm this afternoon: 1. Poesía de Frederico García Lorca. 2. Comentar en estos textos: -(a passage from Bodas de sangre) -(a passage from Árbol de la ciencia) The first is actually a statement... wait, no... a phrase. The second had some direction considering we were given the text, but serious...

For the last two months, I have been attending what we in the program like to call "fake school." Until... last Friday when our midterms started. The time had come to whip out the notes we had scratched down in grammatically-incorrect spanish and cram it into our brains until we all Eurotrip (or in my case, Afrotrip?) for Semana Santa next week. The last two days I have spent with my friends at this cute little cafe near my piso called Van Gogh Cafe. T...

Riding the bus along the coast from Valencia to Alicante reminded me of the Baja peninsula near Cabo. Rocky terrain with little white washed beach homes set along the hills and the bright blue sea alongside it all. We pulled into the train station and my dear friend Robbie used his Lets Go! book to navigate us to a recommended doner kebap place. The last one recommended in his book was the amazing Bocadilla Buraka in Granada. However, one hugely disappointing f...