El fin de Semana Tres... Already!

WOW is time flying!!! Weekend #3 is upon us -  no classes on Fridays!  How nice right? Seriously, America has it ass backwards.  In many senses... umm siestas, President Obama? Let's work that into our lifestyle somehow, por favor. 

Anywho, hola familia y otros amigos, how have you been back in the states?? Comment back to me (on the bottom of my posts) so I can keep in touch with your lives too! I hear it's still blizzarding... what a bummer. It rains a lot a lot a LOT here...thank goodness I got rainboots for Xmas (Mike's so thoughtful right? =D) ... but I'll take the rain. I hardly miss shoveling and freezing temps! HA!

Well, I just thought I would start to upload some pictures on here - my apologies for slacking, sometimes our internet connection is crappy for hours!

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  One of our first nights out in Casco Viejo (Old Town) All but 2 people in this picture are from U of I!

    Mike & I on the bridge that we cross to get to the Universidad de Deusto.  Guggenheim Museum in the background - the architecture is amazing.

(okay I just tried to upload 5 more pics for the past 15 minutes... it's soooo slloooowww. I'll put up more on another post)

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In other news, Mike went to London for the weekend with Greg, another guy from U of I, and they're meeting up with tons of other U of I kids that are studying in different parts of Europe. I guess some Tridelts are going too, little did I know! It should be fun, I'm an eeensy bit jealous, but I think a weekend to myself will be pretty fabulous! Hopefully I'll be able to meet up with friends in Barcelona or Seville in a few weeks!

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Smoker's Cough

My goodness--- EVERYONE smokes EVERWHERE in this city.  Our first experience at a Spanish discoteca had my eyes watering and lungs collapsing within the 5, maybe 6 hours we were there.  The next day I felt I'd been a deep-voiced chain smoker for years with this damn cough.  NO CLUE how ya do it, smokers.  All I gotta say is Muchas Gracias to the man who outlawed smoking in public places in Illinois - it's seriously a world of difference.

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Just being a mom....

hahahahahahahaha

so supposedly Sid Vicious is some rock singer who murdered his girlfriend--- and not a wrestler???? this is news to me, from Patti Ann nonetheless... and she also thinks I could clean up my language. hahahaaaaa oh what fun it is to entertain mom. Love you mom, la madre preciosa!

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BILBAO=AMAZING

Hola a todos!!

Estoy en la ciudad de Bilbao con Miguel---- y es muuuuuyyyyy bonita y fantastico!!!! Estoy enamorado con Espana!!!!!

It's our 4th day here and everything has been great so far.  Besides our 6 hour delay in Frankfurt, Germany. 

The dorm is nice, kind of small, but nice. And we have been cooking some good meals- Mike cooks most of the big stuff.  Chicken the other night was great! We made friends with the man at the fruteria down the block, so I'm sure we'll be getting produce from him a lot.  

We've gone on a few excursions too-- Tuesday we went on a tour of Bilbao and they also showed us around the University of Deusto.  Then, yesterday we traveled by bus to Balmaseda and Portugalete, historical towns in Biscay.  Our lunches on these excursions have been 3 course meals- Lunch is huge- the most important meal of the day.  Then from about 1 to 3pm everything closes down for the 'siesta'.  Everyone goes home for a nap and eats lunch around 2:30.  So different from back home-- we're all starving by noon here.  

We just got back from the Guggenheim Museum, which is right across the river from our university.  Very cool museum, but after like an hour and a half, we were Guggenheimed out.  Took a walk over to Zubierta (a mall down the street) and decided against the Spanish McDonalds and Burger King, and had some bogus Bocatta sandwiches.  Shoulda gone with the McD's.  I'm sure we'll be back there again for the rebajas! (sales!) 

Time for a siesta--- hasta luego....

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I know, I know...

So it's been a while...

My bad. School had a tendency to kick my ass this past semester. 

Don't worry, didn't miss much. I turned 21 (okay, that's a huge one), and had Beta formal (the best time of the year). Formal year 3 that is, the sign of a true Beta Theta Pi groupie. However, year 1 is still on top... with Mike, during our pre-boyfriend/girlfriend period of time. This year with him again was a blast though, and my dress was, for lack of a better phrase, THE SHIT.  I had a personal, underground designer craft it, aka Jessica Piraro, whom you should probably get to know.  Anywho, formal turned a bit sour when the DJ blacked out and attempted to go up my dress. Freaked me out a bit- Mike assumed I had been too drunk/friendly around the dude, which sparked too dramatic of an argument- however, nothing warranted that kind of behavior and it was a big old mess!  Then the DJ almost got his ass kicked. 

Then, finals, bad grades... end of semester 1 of my junior year.

AND, adding to the huge gap in posts,  I realized there's a missing one! Where it went, I do not know. It was so well-crafted too.. meh. On to bigger and better things!

It shall be a fine time in 2009... all beginning with Spring semester in SPAIN!!!!!!!

Yes, yes, I will be studying abroad in Bilbao (northeast Spain for those like my mom who have never heard of it.. weirdos) from January 11th (holy shit I leave in 4 days) until May 16th.

This trip is actually the whole point of this blog - - - so let's hope it's the only thing I'll need to K.I.T. with family members that I'm not going to want to call every week. HAHA

Alrighty, gotta get back to perfecting my procrastination. Haven't packed a thing...

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