Quick update for everyone

Sorry I haven’t updated in a couple weeks, but they’ve been busy (as you might know if you can see my Facebook news feed). I went to Paris with Laura, Karen, and Analecia two weekends ago, where we met up with Laura’s friend Lisa; this is the same who’ll be travelling with Laura, Karen, and me for spring vacays. We came back to take our exams for the first session classes, grammar and culture, which went decently. Then, it was time for a tour of Barcelona with the whole group, where we saw a brief survey of Iberian art through the ages, Gaudí, Miró, a little Calder (really and truly “little” - only eight feet tall), and then some more Gaudí by the moonlight. We came home by way of Sitges, a beach town, and then started up classes again for second session. My polisci prof talks a lot, my lit prof talks a lot of lit, and my art history prof sings. Also, we have off Fridays now, so our weekends are that much longer. Spring break plans are going well, as we’re going to be couchsurfing a lot, and I’ve got a couple people lined up for dinner, drinks, and beds in Brussels. Right now, I’m going out to see the mercadillo (open-air market) with a new friend I found on CouchSurfing, Pao; she’s from Galicia and speaks international sign language, so she’s teaching me some of that while I give her some English words.

This is all. I’ll actually write up the stories, now that I’ve got all my events and photos organized, and put them up over the course of this week.

ETA: If you’re looking for the new posts from the last two weeks, look below this post! It’s a quirk of sorting by date.