As I mentioned yesterday, today is a Spanish holiday so I didn’t have class! It started as every holiday here has: with lots of people in the apartment making lots of noise and not caring at all if people are still sleeping. That’s one thing that seems to be different about this culture, at least…
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I’ve spent twenty-two years in Texas and only three and a half months in Spain. I don’t know how anyone expects people to learn everything they’re supposed to in that amount of time, or if anyone actually does. How could that ever be enough time to learn everything I want to know? I want a…
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Today literally feels like one big whirlwind of chaos that didn’t end. That’s extremely dramatic, but maybe it’ll give you an idea of where my head is right now (I got like one hour less of sleep last night and didn’t have a siesta, wow). Anyway, classes were terrible today because all of my professors…
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Today after class, I went back to my room and I had a moment. I spread out all of the papers I needed to study for finals, I made a list of things I wanted to pack or leave here, and I realized that I was wasting my time. I have less than two weeks…
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My apologies for the delay in posting this. There was a technical difficulty with WordPress and I needed my computer to fix it, but it’s all good now. So, let’s get on with yesterday’s adventure! We let ourselves sleep in a bit since it had been a few early mornings in a row. Then went…
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Wow. What a full and incredible day. We woke up at 5:40am and jumped to the train station near our Airbnb. We stopped for a coffee and raspberry scone, then hurried on through Dublin to find the pick up spot for our tour bus. We made it just in time, navigation failing us only slightly,…
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If you read my post last night, you’ll know we were really worried about our chances of making the flight to Ireland this morning. Well, several angels and sprints through the airport later, we made it to Dublin. Essentially we only gave ourselves a limited amount of time because that was the earliest we could…
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Today I had one class that was good, and then I came home and wrote some important things in my journal that I want to put here too. I don’t think I’ve put up a very quality post recently because I’ve felt so burned out, but I’m feeling less of that introversion and exhaustion and…
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I battled another Tuesday!!! Classes were good, and really I should get used to being in class for six hours in a row since I’m about to start teaching, but nonetheless it’s still always a challenge. I was actually more attentive than usual today, probably because I basically ate a full lunch for breakfast to…
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Yesterday when we were coming into Salamanca from Madrid, I realized that I’m really glad Salamanca is the city I chose to study in. It’s beautiful, full of intricate monuments and homages to art and education, it’s small and cozy, and it’s just generally lovely. Today we got a very exclusive chance to tour the…
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