STA told me that if I don´t update, I lose my site, so HI! Missed me, didn´t you? Just kidding, I know I´ve been terrible with this site lately, and I have a ton of photos on my camera phone (still havent started using a real camera) and my computer to upload. I went over the puente (literally means bridge, but is a long weekend when we have a holiday or something) to San Sebastian and Bilbao in Basque Country. I have a lot to say about it, sin...

I recently spent the day in Segovia with another Fulbrighter, slowly and not that steadily remembering the first time I visited this city and its uber-famous aqueduct in high school.  Memories came flooding back when I saw the giant stone structure and the little gazebo where I posed with Mel, Sarah, Angela, and Katie.  And the small tourist trap gift shop where I couldn't calculate the exchange rate between dollars and pesetas correctly and got rip...

Well, I've now been in Madrid for over a month!  Yesterday was our first Model UN conference with our students.  Starting up the new Global Classrooms Model UN program is one of the biggest responsibilities of the Secondary school Fulbright TA's.  It was really crazy trying to get all of our students comfortable with public speaking, a strange topic (land mine ban treaties), and the entire Model UN thing, which I'm still a little hazy o...

To my faithful readers, I apologize for having left you so long without an entry, but I really have been thinking about all of you and missing you like crazy! Madrid is honestly amazing! I never could have predicted how much I would love it here. This city is so vibrant, so manageable, so welcoming, and so vast! I'm not even a city kind of person but I feel like I am HOME, you know? From crashing Erasmus parties (a European study abroad progra...

It won't let me post from America, but that, after my British Airways flight and a layover in London, is where I am! Since I am currently in New York reuning with friends from St Andrews, I chose Scotland as the fake location for this entry. It's amazing seeing everybody again, and I'm really learning to appreciate the beauty of the American countryside. Thanks, France! I really do miss France, though, and this is going to be a big adjustment--I'm just happy ...