Dear loyal followers:
I would like to formally apologize for not keeping up with my blog this semester. I just kept putting off writing about each trip, and after a while I just stopped trying. So I will try to summarize the last two months for you:

My best friend, Nicole, came to visit me in March for her spring break trip. We had a ball in Madrid, and she came with the group on our excursion to Andalucia. We went to Granada (saw the Alhambra) and Sevilla. We both bought amazingly beautiful tapestries to hang from our walls. It's one of my favorite purchases i've made on this trip.

When she left, it was back to normal Salamancan life for us. We had 11 days of vacation for Easter week, and I went to Italy with 4 other girls. We went to Rome, Venice, and Florence. It was such a wonderful trip! Great food, amazing buildings, such history! We even took a bike ride through the Tuscan countryside and visited a winery. Without a doubt, Italian food is my favorite. And I bought a fierce leather jacket to remember Italia by.

When we got back from Italy, we had barely a moment's rest and we were back on the bus heading North to visit Cantabria. We saw prehistoric cave drawings in Altimira. I think Cantabria is the most beautiful part of Spain. We spent one night in a Parador at the bottom of a huge mountain called Picos de Europa. In the morning we took a cable car (yikes!) to the top of the mountain to see some of the most breathtaking views of nature I've ever seen. Then we drove another hour to Santander. Santander was fun cause we got to dip our toes in the ocean. It was all just so pretty everywhere.

The last two weeks in Salamanca were very sad for me. I have had so much fun there, and to say goodbye was hard. But I didn't have time to be too sad, because my mom and dad came to visit for 15 days right at the end of my program. After I took my finals and said goodbye to Raquel (YAY) I met up with my parents in Madrid. We then went to Valencia for three days, and I got food poisoning from crappy train station food. I got to see the inside of a Spanish hospital. And it was free! Gotta love socialism. Our last stop was Barcelona, where I got to show them around. See previous post for info about barcelona.

And now I am in Antwerp, Belgium...
I am living in an Apartment with the 21 other students. It's actually really nice and comfortable. I can tell that this group will be just as amazing as the one from Salamanca. The people are all really fun, and there's actually MORE boys than girls!

Oh yea, I'm going to Paris tomorrow for the weekend. You know.
More to come later I PROMISE.