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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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on top of the world.
So last Saturday, we took a day trip to the city of Carmona, which was about 40ish minutes by bus from Sevilla. Carmona is located on a hill and is much less modernazized and westernized that the city of Sevilla. We first went to the necropolis, which was really just not that exciting. It’s kind [...]
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¿Cómo se dice “lazy”?
lazy = perezoso. Oh, life in Sevilla. Living here has made me soooo perezosa. I don’t really understand the lifestyle here. We eat lunch at 3pm, have class from 5-8pm, eat dinner at 10:30pm… The awkward hours of dead time in between meals and classes are very unproductive because I feel like there isn’t enough [...]
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hace mucho calor
I have arrived, and the first thing that comes to mind when starting this entry is: hace mucho calor. My goodness, the high today is 101 degrees and the sun is absolutely relentless. I think I have already gotten like 2 shades darker over the course of less than 2 days. I arrived in Madrid [...]
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