Archive for November, 2009
nearing the end
It feels weird to write in this blog now that I only have a few weeks left of my study abroad semester. My crazy weekend traveling has continued and will continue up until the end, and overall it has been great to go from place to place and compare the different cities in Spain to [...]
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Lisboa.Lisbon.Lisboa.
Last weekend my friends and I went to Portugal’s capital, Lisboa (or Lisbon as we Americans call it). The city is very different from Spain and it was a breath of fresh air, so to speak. The first thing I noticed is that diversity actually exists there. I hate to make generalizations about Spain and [...]
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the land of seafood
About 3 weeks ago 5 of my friends and I left for a 5-day vacation to the region of Galicia, which is the northwestern part of Spain. The region is known for its SEAFOOD and WHITE WINE, both of which turned out to be phenomenal. We visited the cities of Santiago de Compostela (famed for [...]
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It’s been quite a while since I’ve managed to sign into my blog! I’ve been busy traveling everywhere and anywhere over the past couple of weeks and I’m in the midst of taking midterms right now. However, as the spanish school system is pretty um…not difficult…I think I can spare some time to update this! [...]
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an attempt to record it all.
