This weekend my family arrived in Spain. I went to Madrid to reunite with them and to make sure they could find their way around a country where they don't know the language. They ended up having some delays, so I got to spend most of the day by myself. Our hotel was in a very touristy spot in La Puerta del Sol. I spent the afternoon browsing book stores and people watching while drinking some tea and taking in the strong Spanish sun. The introvert in me was ve...

This weekend I went to Sevilla to watch Sevilla v Atlético Madrid with three other people from our group. We left Friday afternoon. It was only a three and a half hour bus ride, which isn't bad after an eight hour bus ride the weekend before. Friday night we hung out on the rooftop terrace at our hostel and walked around the city for awhile with Australians and Canadians (no big deal right?). With this group of people it was the perfect weekend. Saturday we got...

By the time we got to the city it was too late to tour anything. We went straight to the hotel/hostel to drop off our stuff. Our group took up all the rooms in the hostel and when it came down to my roommates and I to get our key they were out of rooms. While everybody else had small hostel rooms my three roommates and I and two other boys got to stay in the hotel. We had 4 beds, our own bathroom and a living room. It was fantastic! Our night was pretty chill, w...

Last weekend we went on a class trip to Granada and Cordóba. First up was a seven hour bus ride to Granada. We got there around three in the afternoon, which meant that we had time to tour stuff. That's exactly what I wanted to hear after traveling for that long; but not really. Our professor from our history class was our guide. He is your stereotypical adorable old man. He did a very good job. He would play with the cats as we walked around the old Arabic ca...

This is late, but that's ok. A couple of weeks ago I went to Toledo with three girls from our program and about 20 other European students. Some of them got out of taxi from Carnavales (a weekend long Mardi Gras like celebration) and on the bus to go to Toledo, so we mainly just kept to ourselves. When we got to the city our "guide" told us to have fun and be back in that spot in about five hours. Our little group of Americans quickly located the free museum on...