April 23rd 2007
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It's early Monday afternoon and I'm sitting in the library to avoid the rather immense level of ambient noise that tends to permeate the public areas of the "Facultad de Filosofía e Historia B" building. I've got 40 minutes until class.
This weekend was a trip sponsered by the Marquette ...
March 28th 2007
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Tomorrow is my last exam, and then straight away I leave with Jenny, Lauren, and Katie for an eleven day tour that will bring us to Milan, Venice, Salzburg, and Munich. It will surely be awesome, though at this point the whole idea is a little daunting--it's hard to ...
March 25th 2007
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Who, me? Oh, I've been here.
What have I been up to? Well, life as usual, for the most part. I wake up, I go to school, I go to work, I get home, I eat dinner, I "do homework" (read: zone out on the Internet) and I ...
March 1st 2007
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So yesterday I did it. I worked up the nerve to walk over to the Facultad de Informática and tried to attend a few classes. I had been trying to decipher the mess of a class schedule online for a while, and it always resulted in me giving ...
February 27th 2007
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First of all, please excuse the constant changing of the layout. Wordpress lets me completely change the theme with the click of a button, which makes it easy to get a little (N)ADD about it. It will probably change again soon. Eventually I'd like to build my ...
February 4th 2007
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On Friday night Katie and I hopped on the last train to Salamanca and we spent most of the weekend there. We stayed at a nice hotel which was pretty much the nicest place either of us had stayed at since we've been here (with -gasp- a real shower!) ...
February 1st 2007
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So what do you know, I'm sick again! I'd had vague symptoms going for the past couple of days, and yesterday when I was pretty sure I was sick, I see in the headlines of a metro newspaper that the flu is out in force in Madrid. I ...
January 27th 2007
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Clocks run on 24 hour time here, so when I just happened to look at my new digital clock radio at exactly midnight that's what it said.
I've been much better since our class ended on Thursday. It's been really nice to have some time to enjoy being here and ...
January 25th 2007
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I am so so so done with that orientation course. Good riddance. At least two tons have been lifted off my shoulders, and we might go to Rome this weekend (!). Vamos a ver.