Archive for September, 2004
Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
during one night, I reflect on another night.
Ay. Internet cafes can be ridiculous. I only wanted to come here and type up a tale of daring adventures and intrigue, but this is the third computer I´ve been on … and it appears to be working, but who knows when I actually try to post this. Oh, and now the cafe is closing [...]
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Monday, September 27th, 2004
Back from Seville + contest winner!
So I have returned to Granada, and as always am glad to be back. I was at first rather impressed with Seville with its smoother walk-ways, ritzier stores, bigger river and hipper night-life, not to mention a wider variety of tourist attractions. But it didn´t take 24 hours before I was longing for Granada´s cobblestones, [...]
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Saturday, September 25th, 2004
Now that I´m in Seville, I suppose I should get a haircut!
We just checked into our hostel, the city seems more modern than Granada, lovely larger and less graffiti´d. The hostel was on a little tiny side street and looking for it on a just-bought map made my eyes go dizzy. But I was never even good at Where´s Waldo. We got some help from a [...]
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Monday, September 20th, 2004
Travel news + a cry for help + an awesome trivia contest!
The bad news: I´m totally exhausted and confused from looking up hostel and ground transportation information for our trip to Italy next month The good news: Holy crap, I´m going to Italy next month! And Sevilla next weekend! The beach seems to have been only the beginning. If anyone out there knows anything about traveling [...]
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Monday, September 20th, 2004
A few notes about Granada and phones
Sometimes Granada feels like a labrynth. The streets are narrow, mostly cobblestoned and can vere off at a 45 degree angle without much notice. The buildings on every street are built deliberately high to block out the sun and wind and everything stretches out like wild ivy from a series of plazas and fountains, each [...]
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Sunday, September 19th, 2004
Mar Amable
I flew over the Mediteranean once before. But this weekend I actually swam in it. After a three-hour trip in a bus with seats that might have been comfortable if my legs were half their current size, I arrived with the rest of my study abroad group somewhere on the Spanish coast. I´m told it´s [...]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2004
More about names of cities (+ 2 bonus topics!)
I am still having a hard time making all the verb tenses agree in my sentences, but that hasn´t stopped me from making Spanish puns since the first day we arrived in Granada. The most obvious, of course, is in the name of the city itself: Gran Nada, “the big nothing.” Now, the joke doesn´t [...]
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Monday, September 13th, 2004
Cities of Fruit
Some of the most rousing dinner-table (technically lunch-table, but that just doesn´t sound right) conversations we´ve had in my house have revolved around fruit. I´m not really sure how this happens. But one way or another, we were sitting there, me, Luke, and the Señora, descibing our favorite fruits to each other. The Señora explained [...]
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Thursday, September 9th, 2004
Comer Comida
One of the most convinient things about living with a host family here in Spain is that for the first time in over two years, someone else is responsible for feeding me and doing my laundry. My host mom is a widow with seven grown up children and a small handful of grandkids. She doesn´t [...]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
I am outdated.
Ok, so I really tried to put some links on the side or customize this page a little bit, but while I was off on my own FTP´ing and editing posts in Word Pad, things seems to have changed quite a bit. Everything´s all fancy and I have no clue how to make it work [...]