After a train ride long enough to get us from Auckland to the top of Australia by plane, we finally arrived in Sevilla (or Seville, depending on how Spanish you’re feeling). Sinead and I had stayed at this hostel before and knew the atmosphere was a lot more subdued than our Barcelona place – much …
Mammoth Barcelona Post
Seeing as I’m a little bit behind I’m going to wrap up Barcelona in one big post. Sit back and prepare yourself (a cup of tea might also help). Ok, so where we left off Max had had a big night and the rest of us had a great night’s sleep. It’s probably self-explanatory the …
Barcelona
From Carcassonne the boys and I made our way down to Barcelona, where we were reunited with Shi-nay-nay and our happy family was together again, ready for some seriously good Spanish times! I’m not going to lie, I had been amped to finally understand a bit more of the language, maybe have a solid conversation …
Last Day!
Class on Friday was a strange affair. Looking around the room at people I had spent every day with for the last month, I knew I would never have the opportunity to see some of them again.The end of every hour was met with sad goodbyes, kisses from teachers, and emotional hugs as we left …
Cramming it in
With our exams behind us and two days left in Salamanca, we were starting to realise that we had a month’s worth of Salamanca attractions to fit in to our final hours. Challenge accepted! So here is the story of everything we managed to cram in on those last two days.First up was a climb …
Exams and Study Breaks
Here we go, I am finally finishing off the blog with what we got up to in our final week. After arriving home from Portugal at 3am on Monday morning, we crammed in a few hours of sleep before heading to class for our first day of exams. When I say ‘exams’ I make them …
A Sad Farewell
I know I know. I’ve been terrible. I haven’t posted in days. But I’ve had good reason I swear! We’ve been so busy with cramming everything in, and we’ve had all our tests this week. But the last one was today so I am back to fill you in!! This could take a few posts…At …
Wok
What’s better than a night out with friends where dinner is delicious stir fry? How about UNLIMITED delicious stir fry?!? That’s right, on Tuesday night seven of us went to a place called Wok in Salamanca which is basically all you can eat Asian food. So good. We piled up those plates like nobody has …
Madrid
This weekend was amazing. A big group of us decided to get away for the weekend and hopped on a bus to Madrid! There were eight of us in total, all people that we have met here in Salamanca. We ended up renting an apartment right in the centre of Madrid and we couldn’t have …
Guest Blog Post by SINEAD! Yay.
Guest blog post by Sinead is so cool.Hi everybody! How are you?I am going to write today.Wednesday was probably the most productive afternoon we have had (shopping wise). After university and Jess having a wee rendezvous session to do homework with our good Brazilian-Japanese friend, Sergio, we decided to go hit the tiendas!!! (shops). There …
Exploring Salamanca…and Sleeping
Yesterday and today have been much the same. We got stuck back in to our classes, and ate more awful food at the canteen. (Seriously. It makes O’Rorke look like a gourmet kitchen.)We have come to the realisation that time is quickly running out and we have not seen much of Salamanca other than the …
Jogging with the Bulls
Sorry for the late post Beth! But I do have good reason I swear. We have had a rather eventful weekend. Friday was the end of our first week! After class we recovered back at the residence before meeting Courtney and heading out in search of costumes for the next day. With no idea of …