Things I’d Kill For Right About Now

A calzone Spicy food Cellular internet on my iPhone A drumset Buildings that aren’t frickin’ freezing everywhere Laundry that takes a couple of hours to run instead of the better part of a week. I’ve been wearing the same pants since Saturday. Anything but a lager. Stout, pale ale, WHATEVER!

Small Victories (with apologies to Shakira)

My intensive spanish course doesn’t allow the use of English to help define Spanish words, so when we don’t know one, we have to explain its meaning in Spanish. It’s difficult at times… I’ll give you an example here. I’ll leave it alone for the hispanohablantes to figure it out, with English spoilers afterwards… Today we … Read more

Well I’ve been in Granada for a couple of days now, and I’ve been able to adjust to the city some more. I’ll commence the unfocused mental dump of my observations from the last few days: Granada feels way more urban than I had expected. I thought it would be a small to medium-sized town … Read more

In Granada

I’m here in Granada now… nothing much to report except that I’m really excited! We haven’t seen much of the city yet, but we’ve met our host family and moved into our room. The family is very nice and it seems like it will be a great place to spend five months. (Five months seems … Read more