FAMILIA NÚMERO DOS So I have now been with the Ederra Fernandez family for a week and I have really enjoyed this week. This house is warm, and doesn't smell of tobacco but it is kind of far from my school and the centre of the city and lacks really hot water. It's about half an hour on the bus to get to school so I'm leaving my house at the time I used to get out of bed. Now with being back at school and having this very active family I go to bed earlier an...

LOS REYES MAGOS I'm not sure how many countries celebrate the arrival of the three kings but I know it's not all of them. Other Spanish speaking countries don't so if anything I'm guessing it's a european thing. Los Reyes Magos translates to The Magic Kings, and on the eve of the fifth of January these kings arrive and on the morning of the sixth there are presents from them in every home. Basically it's like Santa Claus but like everything else more religio...

¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO! fun fact: Christmas eve is noche buena - good/new night and New years eve is noche vieja - old night So New year's eve was just like every other day; hung out at home for the morning, made a cheesecake and then went to meet friends in the afternoon. We went to watch the "marathon", which really was only like five and a half kilometers, but it's a tradition and Pamplona had the third highest number of participants in all of Spai...

FELIZ NAVIDAD I was told Christmas is the hardest part of an exchange, but if you can get to Christmas and past it you can make the whole year. I always knew I'd make the whole year and I had no doubts before Christmas, and for me it wasn't all that hard. I feel the most homesick when I talk to my family so skyping my family while their continuing on with our traditions was a little hard but I know I'll be there next year. Watching my family open presents ...

AMIGA CANADIENSE So I had a six day weekend and decided I'd go visit my friend Steffi. She's in Cartagena which is an eleven hour bus ride from Pamplona. I'll include another little adventure in this blog that happened the night before leaving Pamplona. So Thursday night I went out with some friends to Marengo because it was some big fiesta put on by Bacardi to advertise the new Limón flavour. The disco sold about three hundred more tickets than their usua...