Hey Guys,


I wanted to let everyone know that I am in Philadelphia! My plane to Chicago leaves at 6:00!! It feels really different to be in America!!!


See you soon :)

Hey Guys!


Today is officially my last full day in Toledo.....I am feeling a range of emotions!! I am happy and excited to go home to see my family and my friends, but I am a little sad that I am leaving everything here! Tomorrow will definitely be an awkward day leaving my family for the last time.....


I brought all my luggage to school today (with the help of Jake and Taylor). I will definitely be the first one to say that I packed way tooooooooo many things to come here :) All of my luggage was a little unnecessary!!! I leave for Lisbon tomorrow afternoon. I will be heading to Madrid around noon for my 4 o'clock flight. We will be spending 4 days in Lisbon. On Wednesday I will begin to make the dreaded return back to Toledo to get my luggage and then to Madrid to spend the night.....I am still trying to figure out how I will be able to get ALL OF MY LUGGAGE from the bus station in Madrid to my hotel.....Any ideas?!?! I want to stay away from the Metro....I have enough horror stories from that already!!! I'm definitely thinking a taxi and the money will be WELL SPENT :)


I got back from my Semana Santa Adventure this past Tuesday. After Cadíz we went to Granada. I loved Granada (even thought it rained every day)! Brittany and I spent all of Saturday with our intercambio, Estrella and her family. We walked around the city, get lunch, had some tea, and some drinks. They are so amazing!! I am REALLY going to miss them!!!


After Granada we spent a day and a half in Malaga....It stopped raining long enough that I got in a few hours at the beach...THANK GOODNESS!!!! We took the train back from Malaga to Madrid. When I got home, I had my last English lesson with Gabriel. He was sad that I was leaving so that made it hard!!! After my English class I had my graduation ceremony....I passed all of my classes :) 


On Wednesday, Brittany and I went to school with Nerea (Estrella's daughter). We went to Nerea's English class and another English class....I think this solidified my reasonings for not wanting to be a teacher!!! I forgot how chatty third graders are :) After school, we went to have lunch at their house for the last time...It was really sad saying goodbye to them :( Hopefully we can all stay in contact!!!


Yesterday was spent packing all of my luggage up....My room looks empty and sad now!!! I basically threw everything in my suitcases because I will have to re-pack when I get to the hotel on Wednesday night....It was difficult packing for Lisbon and to come home!! I definitely only have the necessities going to Lisbon with me!!!


Today I watched the Royal Wedding!! It just wasn't the same with Spanish translations talking over everything else!!!!


I am on my way to Enebros for on last night of Tapas!! It just won't be the same drinking in Green Bay!!!


I miss everyone tons and I will see everyone soooooo soon!!! I will try to update and let everyone know how Lisbon is going :)


Besos y Abrazos!!!
B

¡Hola!


I just wanted to say I made it home safely from my Semana Santa vacation. I got back yesterday afternoon, taught my last English class, and went to my graduation ceremony. I passed all my classes :)


I will update you guys on the whole adventure tomorrow when I am not as tired!!


Have a great night!!!
Besos y Abrazos :)
B

Hey everyone!

I am on my iPod so I'm not sure how this is going to work! I wanted to let everyone know everything is going well. I am in Puerto de Santa Maria. I am about 25 minutes from the city of Cadiz, in the south of Spain. We have already been to Cordoba and Sevilla. I leave for Granada on Thursday. It is really nice being in a city longer than 24 hours!!!

There have been a few "setbacks" along the way like spending 4 hours in a Spanish hospital ER because Brittany fell down the stairs of the hostel in Cordoba. Or being caught in 47983316906 people in a Semana Santa (Holy Week) prosessional in Sevilla!

The weather is supposed to be cold and rainy the rest of our vacation... Of course that means I didn't pack any long pants or warm clothes!!!

I will try to update in the next few days! Have a great rest of the week!!

Muchos besos y abrazos!!
B

P.S. I heard Green Bay is expecting more snow... YUCK!!!

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Hello Everyone,


This will be my last update for a while :( I leave for my Semana Santa adventure early tomorrow morning. I am completely exhausted from school this week and packing!! 


Everything is going much better now that school is done!! I took my last final today. I won't find out the results until April 26th. I feel like I did well on all of the exams so that is a good thing!!! My exam today went much better than I expected! Looking back on last night, I shouldn't have stressed as much as I did!!!


I have all 11 days packed in my backpack :) Who would have thought that I would ever be able to get 11 days in my backpack?!?! I never did!!!!


I just wanted to let everyone know that things are much better now that I am done with classes!! My trip may be kind of stressful because we are going to so many cities (5 cities) in so little of time, but I know it will ALL WORK OUT IN THE END!!!


All forms of technology are charged and ready to go! I will be sure to take lots of pictures for everyone :) I will have internet capabilities throughout the whole trip so if anyone needs something, I will be checking my email when I can!!!


Please have a great and safe next few days!!! I miss everyone tons and I will be home soon (three weeks from today!)


I will talk to everyone soon!
Happy Easter :)
Besos y Abrazos
B

Hello everyone,


I just wanted to update quickly and let everyone know that I am making it through finals week. I took a final on Monday (my birthday) in my womens' history class. That test was VERY easy and I was the first one done. So either that means I knew everything VERY well or I didn't know as much as everyone else! 


Yesterday (Tuesday) I had my last day a my internship. Everyone was really nice and sad to see me leave, so that made it a little hard! I really enjoyed working there with everyone (minus the smoking issue)! I will really miss working there, but I won't miss getting up early every Tuesday!!!


Today I had my grammar final....I should have studied for this one because it was pretty difficult! The way I see it, even if I failed, I would still get at least a C in the class, so I am still golden :) Boy did that sentence sound EXACTLY like something Brock would say!! I spent most of the afternoon with my intercambio and her family. We were talking about where we are staying on our Spring Break Adventure (they will be in Granada the same time we are) and they told us that our hostel in "Granada" is actually about an hour outside of the city.....SOOOOOO Estrella called 23907519823 different hotels and hostels to see what we can do.....We are still looking because everything is sooooo expensive because it is "spring break". I will let you guys know what happens with at!


Tomorrow I have my last final. It is in my art class. This was the class I disliked the most. It will also be the toughest final....I am extremely stressed and feel like I still have so much to get done with spring break, my trip to Lisbon, and coming home. I haven't even started packing for the spring break adventure yet and I leave early Friday morning....Nothing like waiting for the last minute! 


Along with all the packing and traveling stress, my classes for SNC aren't falling into place as I hoped they would!! So that is to be continued as well.....


I hope everyone is having a WONDERFUL Wednesday and I will try to update again before I leave on Friday!


Talk soon,
B


P.S. I didn't re-read this blog....sorry for any mistakes!

I finally updated!!!

Hello everyone!!!

I just noticed that I haven't fully updated since March 20th!!! Boy how time flies!!! I do apologize that I haven´t let anyone know what has been going on!!! I have been busy traveling and attempting to do some homework :)

Let´s see.....I will try to make this as short and sweet as possible!!! I can´t remember anything exciting happening with school in the past 2 weeks. I have finals next week and just finished my last official class!!! It feels really nice to be DONE! I can´t believe how easy my classes were this semester. That is probably a good thing considering how difficult my next whole year is going to be with school at SNC. I will still be graduating in May of next year and will graduate with a double major in Psychology and Spanish (unless something goes drastically wrong next year!). 

Two weekends ago I was in Madrid with my friend from Green Bay, Ali. She was on the Ashwaubenon Dance Team with me when I was a sophomore and a junior...Her mom was also my dance coach!!!! Ali was working in Amsterdam and decided to come to Madrid for the weekend before she went back to work. We just spent the weekend walking about Retiro Park, doing some shopping, and having tapas! It sure was nice to talk to/see someone from home!

My internship is going well. My last day is April 12th. I have been spending the past few weeks with psychologists. I really did like working with patients who have addictions. It was nice to see their progress over the 10 weeks that I have been there with them. Although, I still would rather work with children than people with addictions. I have been starting to look for internships in Green Bay for this summer. It will be nice to get my foot in the door for the future when I graduate. It is just a little bit difficult looking and applying to places when I am 4000 miles away from everyone and everything!!! I have also started looking for graduate schools in school psychology (to be a school guidance counselor). 

The past few weeks I have been spending a lot of time with my intercambio and her family. She works for the police so Brittany and I got a tour of the police station here in Toledo. Yesterday she showed us the holding cells where they keep some of the inmates while they are being booked....I felt like my dad when I walked in and knew one of the inmates from the clinic!!! What are the odds of that?!?! Looks like he won't be able to make his next appointment!!! My intercambio's son, Aarón, fell and broke his arm two days ago!! The poor thing is going to be in a cast for the next 6 weeks!

I just want to give a mini shout-out to Morgan, my roommate, who broke her leg this past weekend!! She was in a head on collision with a.......BIKE!! Not a motorcycle....a bicycle!!! I hope you get better soon and I probably receive the worst roommate of the year award for laughing so hard, but let's me real.....who gets hit by a bicylce and break a leg!!!! HA HA HA!!!! 

This past weekend was my favorite trip since I  have been here!!! Brittany, Jake, Katie, and I flew to Barcelona on Thursday night. Our hostel was super nice and really clean. It was on one of the main shopping streets in Barcelona and pretty much in the middle of everything!!! The first day there we walked Las Ramblas. It is a long street with stores on both sides and mini kiosks down the center selling all sorts of different things. There was also a HUGE market on Las Ramblas. I'm sure many of you saw the pictures from the market!!! I have got quite a few comments about them!!! HA HA HA I am glad you all finally understand the struggles I am having here! I stopped asking what I am eating for fear of it being something I took a picture of!!! I just hope my family doesn't send me an email when I get home and tell me all of the disgusting things they have been feeding me this whole time!!! On Friday, I also had Starbucks for the first time since I have been in Spain and let me tell you...IT WAS AMAZING!!!! That could be one of the main reasons why I loved the trip so much!

One of the more exciting things in Barcelona was bartering with the sales associates to get lower prices on their merchandise. If you walk in and see a shirt that is priced for 45 and say that you will offer 20 for it.....9 time out of 10, you will get it for that price!!! It was great!!!

I would also like everyone to know that I purchased my first soccer jersey while in Barcelona. Who would have thought I WOULD EVER BUY SOMETHING ASSOCIATED WITH SOCCER!!! Sure enough, I did!!! The FC Barcelona soccer team is officially my favorite team (due to the fact that they won the World Cup, have the best player in the world, and their players are GORGEOUS!!).  My favorite player is Gerard Piqué. Too bad he is dating Shakira though :( 

We spent a lot of time at the beach in Barcelona as well!! I was nice to get away from all of the people and just relax a bit...I also got a really nice tan!!

On Saturday we went to the Sagrada Familia (a really big church). It is still being constructed and won´t be finished until 2026. Maybe I will have to return to see the final project!!! We also went to see the Olympic facilities. There were a bunch of parks that were really nice to just sit and watch the watch falls and fellow people walking around!

I have a busy few weeks coming up in the near future!!! Of course, my brithday is this Monday!!! I wish I could be at home celebrating with everyone in Green Bay, but the festivities will continue when I return! Then I leave for my two weeks of traveling on Friday the 15th. I will be spending a fews days in each of the following cities: Cordoba, Sevilla, Cadiz, Granada, and Malaga before returning back to Toledo on Tuesday the 26th. Did I mention that I will be living out of my backpack for those two weeks that I will be traveling?!?!?! WISH ME LUCK!!!! We shall see how that ends up!!! Tuesday the 26th is the final day of the program. We receive our diplomas (if we pass!). I will be in Toledo from Tuesday the 26th to Friday the 30th. That's when I leave for my final trip to Lisbon, Portugal. 

I land in Madrid on the 4th of May and Jake, Taylor, Brittany, and I will be spending one more night in Madrid before we make our way back to America! I can't believe how time has flown by over here!!! 

The weather has been AMAZING!! Today and the rest of the week will be in the low to mid 80s!!! Hopefully it will be that warm when I come back home :) Ok I know that is a little unrealistic, but I at least hope their won't be any snow!!!!

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and  a wonderful weekend!!! I will update frequently next week and let everyone know how my finals are going!! I will not have my laptop with my while I travel so I apologize for the lack of communication while I am traveling! I still get internet on my iPod so I will reply to emails as soon as I can!!!

I miss eveyone lots and I will be home VERY soon!!!!

Besos y Abrazos,

B