Yep you read that right - I joined the gym. With all this food I've been eating I decided that I don't want to come home 5,000 pounds (2267 kg). I went for the first time yesterday and it's really really nice. They have locker rooms with showers, saunas, hair dryers, and a bunch of lockers where you can keep your stuff. The equipment is also really nice and apparently they have a spa. A big selling point for me though was the group classes (which are free) becaus...

So today was my first day of class! (Well my first day of intensivo which is a grammar class that we take before actual classes start). I was all ready to have a not so great time sitting for four (consecutive) hours taking notes on all the complicated tenses of Spanish. It was nothing like I expected. First the classes were really small - I think there are 12 in mine. Second the Professors are really really cool. We have one professor for the first half and ano...

So after a little less than a week in Granada I think I'm finally figuring out my way around. It's an absolutely beautiful city with so many things to discover and places to explore and I can't believe I get to spend the next five months here. So far all of the food has been amazing - even though a lot of times I wouldn't think it would be. For example, today for lunch we had meatballs with ham in them and a fried egg. That's a combo I never would have thought o...

Fátima told us that she thought Toledo was the most beautiful city in Spain, and while I haven't visited many Spanish cities I can see why she said that. The city is surrounded by a river and has a ton of windy cobblestone streets (that are really easy to get lost in). After taking a bus around the outside of the city we did a walking tour where we stopped at the cathedral. It was absolutely massive. There were tons of different mini chapels that we were ...

Today has been a long day - but a great one. Mom and dad (and Mike and Tess) brought me to the airport around 5 and we checked in and noticed that the security line continued downstairs by check in and did a couple of z's there as well. Luckily, I managed to get pre TSA which sped up the process a bit. The flight was actually about an hour shorter than expected which was nice, but I wasn't able to get much sleep - though the extra leg room really helped (thanks M...