Pictures.....

This weekend was fantastic....we did nothing too out of the ordinary...but we had lots of fun. Thursday night there was a party at Jenine and Mel´s and Friday night a party at mi piso....The only thing out of the norm is that we brought out the ca...

 

random thoughts and occurances........

I have had kind of a pensive day...like they say here in Asturias "estoy como el día," meaning I am like the day, which today is rainy, cold, grey. It´s not a day to live in the moment, but rather a day to contemplate things that ar...

 

Asturias!!!!!!!

It doesn´t take very long to realize that there is a really enormous difference between academic usage and everyday usage of a foreign language. To me, it is baffeling that I can manage well in an undergraduate classroom, and can write and read at...

 

Chronicles of Language Acquisition (or however you spell that word)

This week I began (this morning to be precise) Spanish class. A professor of Spanish here has agreed to tutor me one morning a week (I am also tuturing her English one day a week). Anyway, I´m really excited about it. Because there are so many thi...

 

Going out!!!!

These are a few pictures that my friend Candice just sent me of when she, I and Linda went out in Madrid. And by "went out" I mean we had some sandwiches at 100 Montaditos and then enjoyed some boxed wine (actually it was really gross, wine f...