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Machu Picchu

Updates

The following things have happened in my life since we last spoke: I graduated! (Well, okay, my last post came a few days after that, but I never mentioned it.) So I’m a college...

5 Reasons Sevilla is Amazing

Between my four visits to Sevilla (“Seville” in English), I fell in love with it. It’s a city with a population of about 1.5 million (a little bigger than San Diego) located in the...

Sevilla, Spain

Villarrasa, Huelva, or Sevilla?

With my school being located in the tiny town of Villarrasa in between the cities of Huelva and Sevilla, the question is: where to live? Villarrasa, Huelva, Sevilla, or another town closer to Villarrasa?...

It’s here!

It’s here. The placement letter I’ve been anxiously awaiting, well, really since I first discovered this program more than two years ago. If I choose to go to Spain in the fall, as I...

Miró Spanish Civil War

Tan Pronto

As I’m writing this post, I should definitely be working on my 20-page research paper due Thursday (about art of the Spanish Civil War! see how Spain pervades my life?), but odds are that...

Indignados

¡Revolución!

A few days ago, a series of protests throughout Spain broke out, and it’s become a phenomenon sweeping the nation. Upset that, among other complaints, politicians don’t take the people’s needs into account, Spain’s...

Sevilla, Spain

Waiting

I’m growing increasingly impatient about getting my placement letter! I just want to know what city I’ll be in already so I can decide for sure if I’m going! Many future Auxiliares have been...