10 Weeks Down.. 9 Weeks Left

I just can't decide if I feel like i have a long time left... or not much time left. It's such a strange feeling. The weirdest part is.. almost the rest of the group is leaving in 4 weeks.. and 3 days.. that's really the sad part! Luckily there are two great girls that are staying for the extra time... and lets just say I'm crossing my fingers for a giant leap in my spanish. After being here for 10 weeks.. the word "fluent" is a whole new definition in my book.. seriously.

Well, first of all.. for all of you who I'm sure remember I had an exam last time I wrote on here... I think it went pretty well! And get this.. we had the option to write about either theme we wanted to! I wrote about the Historic Memory. Qué interesante.. I know.

And then the weekend after that.. we went to Barcelona! Which is just a beautiful city... I just don't like the fact they speak "Catalan" there... the language of Cataluña. But it's not really a problem, because everyone speaks Castellano also. But for things like menus and signs it can be annoying. We left at 6:00 am on Thursday morning.. with a 8 hour bus ride.

Here are some pictures from our time in Barcelona!

Kasey, Me, and Emilie on the boardwalk

LA PLAYA!!

The Beautiful Mediterranean Sea

La Sangrada Familia

..I don't think it will ever be finished.. seriously

Bethel People :)

At El Parque Guelle.. by Gaudí also

AKA Candy Lane!.. Look at that building

A night time stroll at the beach.. so pretty!

We left Barcelona on Monday late morning to make a journey back to home sweet home, Segovia. So then this past week has been another lovely 4 day week. And Saturday morning we left at 9:00 am for a day excursion... first, we went to la Murralla de Ávila, about 45 minutes away.

One of most well kept walls of a fortified city

"Cuatro Postes" .. a good view of the wall....

...but I thought the clouds looked much, much cooler

After we saw those two things, we all went to a café near ^^^ that, and got some café con leche (coffee with milk, more or less) and Cola Cao (Hot Chocolate, more less). And then we had another hour on the bus until we got to Salamanca.. and beautiful city! It has the very first university of Spain. We had a couple hours of free time to eat our lunches (gotta love when our host families pack us lunch) and walk around for a bit. Then we went on a tour... which was.. fine :) Just .. a little long!

Check out those clouds

Its like a painting...

La Catedral

La Casa de las Conchas (House of Shells)

Ricardo (our program director) brought one of his kids.. Aku!

He's adorable.. and FULL of energy

Sooo cute together

The father & child interaction makes me miss you DAD!!!

Look at that cutie .. there's a good chance he was the most entertaining part of the tour

...our tour guide wasn't too please about that!

If you're still reading this... I'm so sorry. This is getting long.

Today.. SUNDAY! Slept in until 11:00.. walked into the kitchen to my host mom just cooking up a storm. She made me some eggs and toast.. and coffee :) Then I headed back to my room to listen to a great sermon from Westwood and then got cookin on my paper for Classic Literature. And THEN.. me and some friends went to a movie! We saw "Salidos de Cuentas" .. it was pretty funny.. its an American movie, but I'm not sure what the name is in english because they always change it completely when they translate it to spanish! But it's with Robert Downey Jr & Zach Galifianakis .. if you know what it's called in english.. let me know!

The clock just struck midnight.. which means there are all kinds of bells going off outside my window.. and that I'm going to go to bed soon! This week: we leave for Andalucía (Southern Spain) on Thursday morning.. and are there until Monday.

Love you all very much. Besos.

PS. MORGAN BAKER -- it's your birthday very very soon :)

PPS. SHANNON HILBRANDS -- you too!!!!!!!