A Moroccon Thanksgiving

Wow.  What an experience Africa was.  I just returned from a weekend trip to Morocco and I am sick to my stomach with excitement.  But actually, I am sick to my stomach.  I returned last night and have been running to the bathroom countless times throughout the past 24 hours.  Haven't left my bed for anything but the toilet.  But what would an African experience be without a little sickness involved? It's all part of the African package.  I wouldn't trade anything that happened on this trip to make this sickness go away.  And out of all 6 of the people I traveled with, I was probably the one asking for it more than the rest.  I was wayyy to obsessed with petting the wild, stray animals and eating as much fruit as posible.  Probably not the best decisions, even though in the moment they sounded great.

So Thursday afternoon our flight from Madrid to Marrakech was at 2:30.  Me, Alexandra, Julie, Detti, Joe and my friend from USC named Tyler all flew together.  Tyler had come to Madrid all by his lonesome in order to join me and my friends in this adventure to Morocco and he fit into the Duke group perfectly.  I'd say he is welcome back to Madrid with us or to Duke whenever he wants.  After a few fights about appropriate clothing and an uncomfortable flight on RyanAir, we finally arrive in Marrakech.  Detti had arranged for our tour guide to pick us up from the airport, so we all exchanged our euros for durhams and took off in his van into the central city of Marrakech.  He dropped us off directly in front of these Moroccons wrestling on the ground.  As if we weren't experiencing enough of a culture shock as it was, he wanted to make sure to put us directly in front of the fighting locals.  Peeeerfect.  Tyler and I were staying in a hostel while the others stayed in this nice hotel.  We split our ways and we were to reconvene later in order to go out for a delicious Thanksgiving dinner in Marrakech.

So Tyler and I arrived to our skechly located hostel with an annoying Moroccon who wanted us to pay him for taking us there even though I knew exactly where we were going.  We were then greeted with tea and broke rule number 1: Don't drink the water.  It was delicious though and worth it.  After figuring out the hostel deal we went back out into the market streets and met our friends in the African KFC.  We went out for a very fancy Moroccon Thanksgiving dinner.  This place was super legit.  We order a delicious meal in order to celebrate Thanksgiving.  I would go into food details, but the thought of any food makes me want to run to the toilet, so I'm going to maybe post some pictures and leave the rest to imagination.  I can however, talk about the belly dancers that came out in the middle of the meal.  These young, kinda chubby belly dancers came out to this intense live Moroccon music and preceeded to perform the worst form of belly dancing I've ever seen.  It was an awesome expereince though and we all loved it.  Especially Detti ;)

Dinner was awesome though and we are all so thankful for being able to travel the world and experience all of these different cultures. It does not get much more unAmerican than celebrating Thanksgiving in Africa, however, we made it work and still were able to celebrate as a group and realize all that we are thankful for in our lives.  I thought contrasting our blessed lives to the lives of these people in this third world country was a perfect opportunity to have a Thanksgiving, and as much as I missed my family I enjoyed being with some of my best friends in this program.

The next day we had to wake up very early to meet and go on our desert tour.  I got a very bad nights sleep in the hostel because they do not have a reception desk so the hostel worker sleeps on the sofa directly in front of our bedroom.  He then preceeded to yell the entire night in his sleep which freaked me out so badly that I could not sleep well.  The beginning of our tour was us driving through the mountains on these scary winding roads and stopping frequently to take awesome pics. We also stopped at a few desert towns and explored a little.  We bought turbines to wear on our camel tour that night and got a little ripped off since we weren't expereinced bargainers yet.  Finally, after a while of driving we arrived to the desert where we met our camel friends. The camels were awesome for 5 minutes.  Then they began to smell and spit and make gross stomach noises and all of our butts were rubbed raw from riding them for so long. I wouldn't trade the expereince for anything, but I do not think I will ever resort to camel as a form of transportation.  We walked for about an hour and a half as the sun set towards our desert campsite.  After what seemed like ages, we arrived to this very cool campsite with about 12 tents all set up for us to sleep in.  These tents were legit, they had electricity and even power outlets.  I had been complaining how my phone was going to die and I wouldn't be able to take pictures.  I never would have guessed that they would have had power outlets inside the tent!  And they were pretty heated since it gets so cold at night in the desert.  They cooked all of us this delicious food and we drank tons of tea together.  So random, but on our flight here we met these kids studing in Salamanca who were doing a similar tour as us.  They ended up being at our same exact campsite and we were able to hang out with them for a while.  After dinner the tour guides set up this bonfire and we all sat around while they played traditional desert tunes.  It was so relaxing and such an intimite expereince.  You could lay back and look up at all the stars and it was such a beautiful site.  I loved how secluded we were from the civilized world and how you could look all around and only see nature and sand.  It was a humbling experience.  That night we all squeezed into the cozy tent and had a wonderful nights sleep.

Next morning we were woken rather early to have breakfast and ride the camels back to the vans while the sun rose all around us.  My little camel guy was so cute and we were in the back together.  I named him Joey and the poor thing went sooooo slow.  He was a cute little guy though.  Never spit or made gross noises.  My booty hurt pretty bad, but he had a nice hump which helped by not making it so unbearable.
We met the van drivers and said goodbye to our desert friends and once again we were off through the desert towns and the mountains.  After stopping for lunch we switched vans and joined a bigger group.  Little did we know that we were now with the crazy Moroccon mountain driver who had the need for speed.  So imagine the windiest of winding roads you can imagine up alongside these huge, gigantic mountains.  Now picture these crazy Moroccon flying in a huge van down, alone these roads.  As much as an adrenaline rush as it was, I was not trying to die in Morocco by cliff diving.  This dude was actually pretty experienced and we did thankfully survive the trip.

Once back in marrakech, Tyler and I switched from the hostel to the sweet hotel the others were staying in and we all finally showered after too many days of stinky desert sweat.  We went shopping in the markets and learned how to bargain and ended up buying lots of gifts to bring back home to the States.  We met up with the Salamanca kids, Conrad and Selena, and went to a rooftop dinner with them which was a lot of fun and delicious.  It is really hard to find alcohol in Morocco since it is against the Muslim culture to drink. We were all exhausted so we went to bed after dinner.  We didn't have much of a day the next day.  Just woke up for breakfast and then took a van to the airport.  After the flight home is when I began to feel pretty yucky.  We killed it at McDonalds and ate everything on the menu when we got home.  I ate way too much ice cream for a girl with a sick stomach and paid the consequences later back at home.  Thankgoodness for Carmen who is the best host mom in the entire world and has taken care of me while I have been sick in bed all day.  I missed my classses today and I have slept almost the entire day, minus the time to write this and eat a little something.  Currently i am feeling much better and I only have one class tomorrow morning which I should be able to attend.  I am really missing my mommy while I am stuck sick in bed and wish my family was here to tickle my hand.  I know I will be home soon enough and I am lucky to have Carmen and Alexandra here to help me feel better :)

I am going to try and do some homework and watch some of the Walking Dead.
See ya later, alligator<3

Barcelocaaaa

This past weekend we finally had the long anticipated program trip to Barcelona. I didn't know much about this city before traveling there (not that I know much about any city before traveling there) but Barcelona was very different than I expected.  It is not like Madrid at all. They speak a different form of spanish and the city seems a lot more modern than madrid. The beach is beautiiful and the Gaudi style architecture is super trippy and different. It's also a lot more touristy than Madrid and there are so many things I wasn't able to see while I was there.  I may have to return with my wittle baby sisssy when she comes to travel with me!

I left Friday morning with the program since I unfortunately have class on Thursdays unlike a lot of people who were able to leave for Barcelona early since I suck and couldn't give myself a 4 day weekend when planning my class schedule. Oh well. Abroad problems. So we arrived to Barcelona super early  and went on tours with the program. We saw a beautiful view from Montjuic, went to la Sagrada Familia, and toured the Picasso museum.  La Sagrada Familia is probably the coolest thing I've seen in Spain.  Gaudi designed this beautiful church which is still under construction. It is very modern and unlike any other church I've seen yet. The outside is where the visual artwork is depicting the different scenes of Jesus while the inside is more focused on the lighting and gives a natural, foresty feeling.  I loved this church and actually felt comfortable in it, where as sometimes we enter these sacred and old churches that give off an eerie and delicate feeling.  I wish my family could have seen this beautiful church.


















The nightlife in Barcelona is crazy and my two nights there were awesome. The first night the program paid for us to sleep in this beautiful hotel.  Kristin was my roommate and our room had this awesome balcony which was a perfect place for a pregame. We then went to this very cool club called Opium which is right on the beach. I didn't exactly go into Opium but I walked all the way there with Charlie and then once we arrived it was so late and we didn't want to pay the 20 euro cover charge so we walked back.  Still super fun though. If I return to Barcelona, I will probably actually enter the club though. The next day we had more tours to see Gaudi architecture which was pretty cool and they gave us a lot of free time. When the program ended we decided to try and scalp tickets to the Barcelona soccer game! That was awesome. I went with Charlie, Catherina, Kristin, Emily and Philips and we each bought tickets for 45 euros.  Not bad considering our seats were 8 rows up from the field! It was insaneeee. And Barcelona obviously won 3-1 against Zaragoza and I took awesome, creepy photos of Messi the entire time. Such a fun timeee.

That night we then went out again and some Barcelona kids took us to this bar which is basically a beer garden. I wish I had my drindl because it was like Oktoberfest all over again. This time I stole a mug also! There were a ton of Duke kids and everyone was just running around and hanging out with each other. Then after quenching our thirst there we walked over to a club called Razzmatazz around 3 am and stayed there for a little while.  It was also a ton of fun and everyone got loco and i successfully made it home to my hostel.  Very impressive. Barely slept that night though unfortunately and I am still suffering from that. The next day we had a few hours to spend in which we ate lunch and then a bunch of us went to Parc Guell which is the cool Gaudi park with all this trippy architecture and the most famous bench in the world. That was very fun to see. We had a train back to Madrid at 5:30 and then came home and hugged Carmen and slepttttt. These weekends take a lot out of me. I leave again on Thursday, Thanksgiving, for Morocco.  How unAmerican can I get?! Camel rides and desert tours so soon! I cannot waittttt.

Also, mi amigo Tyler is here in Madrid and so therefore tonight I must take him out to see Madrid. Haven't been out on a Monday yet I don't think.  Pretty stoked. Loving this abroad life, that's for sure. It will be interesting once we all get back to Duke and need to learn to be normal people again. But for now, I will keep making the most of every moment and enjoying this amazing life and making memories I'll never forget.

Hakuna Matata

El Rey Leon the musical has been the best thing I've done in Madrid yet.  Tonight has got to be the best night of the program.  Today in entirety maybe, considering I spent the day shopping away at all my favorite european stores, then saw the Lion King musical in spanish with the one and only Charlie Thurston.  We prepared for this night properly by watching the Lion King this past weekend and freshening up our Disney knowledge.  Therefore, we were prepared for the movie in Spanish translation and were able to enjoy the show more than ever.  I had seen it before with my family before in English and knew what to expect with the costumes and teatre production, however it all still blew my mind.  They did such an amazing job creating costumes and portraying all of the different animals.  It inspires me to create my own lion costume and live like a lion.  But I won't.

Also, tonight Duke plays Kentucky at 3:30 am Spain time.  This is HUGE. And tomorrow there is a Huelga General all throughout Spain, therefore I don't have class.  Couldn't be a more perfect opportunity to stay up all night to watch the game and then sleep all day tomorrow to recover.  Too bad I have a ton of homework that I have been procrastinating for a while now.  You only live in Spain once.  My homework will figure itself out.  Hakuna Matata homie.

I finally bought a big, greenish, warm winter jacket, Yayy!  And I bought a ton of other winter essentials.  So excited for my new wardrobe.

BREAKING NEWS!!:

SYDNEY IS COMING TO TRAVEL EUROPE WITH ME!!
My wittle baby sister is flying into London Thursday morning, December 20th and then traveling with me and Charlie for a few days until he leaves us and then we are hitting up Paris, Rome and Spain and staying through Christmas and New Years.  Watch out Europe, the Sebastian sistas are takin ovaaaaa!  I have never been more excited for anything in my life.  Except Duke v UNC after my first year of tenting.  That was pretty exciting.  Also, Mumford and Sons in London is also exciting.  And tonights bball game against Kentucky is exciting.  My life is just one excitement after the next.  So blessed.

I am going to try and be productive now.  Wish me luck!

Quiero ya ser el rey

My next tat! 

Look out Europe cause we're coming for ya!

Frolicing through Copenhagen

Last weekend I took an adventure to Copenhagen to visit some Duke friends and attend Sensation White.  One of the best weekends ever. Thursday we did not have class since it was a Spanish holiday so I left Thursday afternoon after a night out on the town in Madrid dressed in my drindl celebrating Halloween the right way.  A little detour right quick about Halloween: apparently the place to go in Madrid on Halloween is TGI Fridays.. who would have thought.  Charlie and I went there to get our American food fix without being aware that the restaurant would be turned into a full-out haunted house.  It was insane and all the workers were dressed up in these scary costumes, the entire restaurant was decorated from head to toe and they played creepy and tradicional halloween music.  It was such a great call to go there because we had the true taste of halloween in Spain, a place that doesn't celebrate Halloween the way Americans do.  I also did not get the memo about dressing scary in Spain.  I wore my cute little drindl and every single other person looked like they came out of Buffy.  Everyone was dead and haunted looking and I just looked like a lost German girl roaming the streets of madrid on Halloween night.  Gotta get my money's worth for that drindl though..

So back to Copenhagen... I left by my lonesome and had a layover in Frankfort.  Met these two cool dudes and got drunk in the airport off of delicious German beer and then we all proceeded to fly to Copenhagen together.  Lufthansa is the bomb-digity and serves you free food and alcohol on board the plane.  What a tease since I can only afford to fly Ryan Air from here on out.  I finally arrived in Copenhagen around 11:30 pm and Paige Arnold is my hero and sent me the best How To list in the world.  She walked me step by step, navigating me through the airport and how to get to her apartment taking the metro and changing onto the train.  She is also amazing for letting me crash on her floor and being my tour guide around the city.  We did a ton of amazing site-seeing together and I would move to Copenhagen for so many reasons, especially for how superior their chai tea is compared to anywhere else.  Best thing ever.  We saw Nyhavn, the beautiful rainbow canal district in the city and we took a water taxi to see the Little Mermaid statue.  Their transportation passes include water taxis!  That is the coolest thing ever.  I am obviously somewhat obsessed with this city.  The people are so stylish and beautiful and they just love Christmas there.  Friday night we went out to for the holiday they celebrate in honor of the release of their Christmas beer.  They had all of these beer trucks drive through the streets and in every bar at 9:00 they released this new beer for the christmas holidays.  We also went to this club where we paid one standard fee and then for the rest of the night it was all you can drink, no charge.  Purdy good deal if ya ask me.  Copenhagen isn't cheap either, but I am a fan of that concept.  They use the kroner there instead of the euro and the exchange rate was very bizarre.  Brunch cost us 90 kroner, which seems like a ton but it's really only like $16.  Because it was so confusing, it felt more like fake money to me so it is a good thing I was only there for a few days or else I might have spent all my money without realizing it.

After the beer night celebration, the following night was Sensation White, and what a sensation that was.  I saw so many Duke kids that day, very similar to Oktoberfest.  We all dressed in all white, cooked home made dinners to save money, drank lots and then went to the huge electronic music festival that takes place every year in throughout the world.  It was so much fun and something I'll remember forever.  Also, another cool aspect of Copenhagen is the lawless district called Christiania, which is this artsy, hippie area where all the drug dealers post up booths and sell their goods.  It was an interesting expereince and was preparing me for Amsterdam, if I am able to make it there this trip.  Also, two states in Amurica have legalized marijuana.  Super sweeet.  Finally we can tax it and make some money off the drug, which is the way we should have been doing it from the beginning.  It isn't legal in Copenhagen like it is now in Colorado, however the district is known as a freetown and the authorities pay them no attention and allow the town the freedom to do what it wants.  It is a cool place to visit to witness the progressive and liberal Danish lifestyle.

To wrap things up, Copenhagen was awesome and if I ever have the opportunity to go back to Denmark I for sure will.  Maybe live there one day.  I love the fact that everyone speaks english.  I am a little over the whole Spanish speaking language barrior things.  I'll let the picures say the rest about the experience.

The Cure

Obama wonnn!!! Yayyyy the elections are finally over and now we can move on and start focusing on improving our country again.  It's pretty exciting that the first election I am allowed to vote in, the candidate I vote for wins the presidency.  I feel as if I am making a difference all the way from Espana!  (Sorry dad!)  This week I have definitely been a little homesick with all of the election excitement and news about hurricane Sandy and my sister getting accepted into her first college.  However, after a night of skyping my entire family and people back at Duke and missing everyone madly, something magical happened in Madrid.  I have been dying for Reeses.  It has been a huge issue for me here.  They are my favorite candy, my mom always sends me care packages with them at Duke, I put them in my ice cream every night for dessert; except here, they do not exist.  Or so I thought.  After reaching my homesickness peak, I was wondering around Madrid trying to find some new clothes and exploring when all of a sudden I discovered the best thing posible:  Taste of America, a small supermarket type store that only sells traditional American favorites.  And yes, they had reeses.  So of course I spent a ton of money going to town, buying reeses, goldfish, favorite candy and other things in just sheer excitement.  I don't think I have ever smiled more in my life, and I smile all the time.  It was truly a magical moment and I took it as a sign to stop being homesick and start taking appreciating my time abroad.  I will be home before I know it and there is no time here to spend missing America.  I will have plenty of America in my life before I know it.  Spain is awesome, Europe is awesome.  Live it up and make memories every second because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity that I am so blessed to have.  Only I would need Reeses to finally put everything in perspective for me.  Reeses is always the cure no matter what.

So now that I have been endulging myself with Reeses and all other sorts of American goodies, I have found myself wanted to take more and more advantage of my time in Madrid.  This weekend I am not going anywhere and I want to stay here and enjoy as much as I can of the city.  Go to museums and the Rastro and el Parque Retiro.  This past week I went to the Thyssen Museum with the program and loved it so much that I want to go back.  Today I went to the Centro Centro building dedicated to modern art in Madrid which is located by Plaza de Cibeles.  I have also been walking to all of these places and exploring more as I go.  I am really excited to have this weekend here to take advantage of this awesome city I live in.  Also, I love my host mom and this weekend Alexandra is traveling to Paris so Carmen and I are going to have some awesome bonding time.  I am excited.  Except for the fact that the Mexican and his wife are moving in on Saturday.  That will certainly change the household dynamic, going from the three chicas to the three chicas with a married mexican couple living here as well.  I'm sure they will be fantastic people though and I am excited to meet them.  Also, this weekend my host sister is coming home from Florence for about a week so it will be nice to have her around again too.  I know Carmen loves when her daughter Elena is around.

Basketball has also been going well and I am so excited I made the decision to join the team.  The girls are awesome, practices are so fun, the commitment is wack and the coach is hilarious.  I love getting to know Spanish people in a setting I feel comfortable in: the basketball court.  The girls are all great and I am so excited for our dinner with the guys team next month.  Also, I now have sweet gear and I look legit.  I am totally going to wear this stuff around Duke.  And I can forever say I played varsity basketball in college.  Even if it is spanish basketball.

MISS THESE FOOLS. FAMILY<3

lions and tigers and bears oh my!

It is really strange how long I've been living in Madrid now and as much as I love this experience, it is really making me appreciate home more.  I wouldn't say Madrid is starting to feel like home, but it definitely feels nice to come home to Carmen's cooking and a nice comfy bed all after a long weekend of traveling.  However, I am in the awkward homesick phase where as much as I wanna travel Europe and study abroad here, I wanna bring the American culture with me and my friends and family from back home.  I'm ready to live in my own house or dorm room again and not be a guest in someone else's home.  I'm ready to eat whenever I want, whatever I want.  Carmen's an awesome cook, but my real mom is better.  I want pets in my house again that actually like me and sleep with me at night.  Alexandra is an awesome sister but it's driving me crazy not being with my real sister and having her come visit me at Duke.  I'm missing basketball season.  Enough said.

But my homesick rant is over.  And I am by no means hating on Madrid.  More like loving on American and my homes there (which include Charlotte with my family and Duke).  This is only the halfway awkward homesick transition period.  I sure it is just a phase, hopefully.

Anywaysssss, this week was midterm week.  So fun.  But Friday we took a program trip to Toledo, which was actually very fun and beautiful.  The city was really cool and we did a lot of tours into Cathedrals and Temples and what not.  To me it seemed like a classic, olden days city structured just like you would imagine an old city to look like.   A beautiful river running around it, with the city life high up above the water, and mountains and hills all around.  Real pretty.  It was a nice trip with everyone.

So Pretty!

Also, yesterday I knocked quite a few cultural activities off of my Madrid list.  Brittany Cohen (my roommate next year at Duke) is visiting this weekend.  Yayyy!  Me and Charlie met up with her and her friend and went to the Madrid zoo!  Ahhhhhh I love the zooo.  It was an awesome one too, with almost every species of animal you can imagine.  We had a blast.  There were lions and tigers and bears, oh my! And pandas and owls :) and reptiles and dolphins.  It was very fun!  We also rode the Teleferico over to the zoo which is a big gondola lift that takes you over Madrid.  It's way better than taking the metro.  

After the zoo we went to Plaza Mayor where there was another strike, surprise surprise.  So we headed over to the Reina Sofia museum where we wandered around and saw the Guernica painting by Picasso.  It was really cool.  I never realized how huge the actual painting is.  It was a very very cultural day.  Knocked a lot of things off my list.

The night wasn't very cultural.  The goal was to botellon in the streets outside with everyone.  However, it was like 2 degrees outside and that plan failed.  So we went to Dubliners, the most American bar in all of Madrid.  For some reason we end up there a lot haha.  And almost every duke kid abroad is visiting this weekend so we all met up there.  It was a great time and I saw so many people.  I did not want to pay the expensive fee to get into the really cool club called Kapital so I ditched that and was able to get home a relatively early time and watched Star Wars when I got back?  Random, but I woke up and star wars was playing on my computer.  Smash makes good decisions in the late night.  

I then slept in real nice and late and now I have my first basketball game with the varsity team here in Madrid :) Wish me luck!! Should be interesting.   The coach is a nutcase, but he is great.  I'm pumped woo!

Peaceeee<3

Dukes going bowling! && other wonderful things

Yeah, you heard me.  Duke is playing in a bowl game this year :) I am so proud of my boys and wish more than anything that I was at Duke to cheer them on.  Shout out to Anthony Boone!  I'm proud of you buddy for all of your hard work.  It's all paying off now!  How exciting!
Also, basketball season has started and that's just fantastic.  Can't believe I'm missing half of the games, but something's gotta give.  I'll be watching them all from here of course, probably in Dubliners with the entire Duke in Madrid program.  Then when I return, diving head first into black tenting.  Yeaaaah buddy.  This year is gonna be off the chain.

So enough missing Duke, since I do that plently enough on a daily basis.  Life in Madrid is going grand as well.  I could never actually live in this city unless I had wifi 24/7 and they imported American coffee.  Then I would consider it.  Oh, and if my family came all da time.  Which in fact, they may very possibly be coming for Christmas!!! Best news ever.  I might have convinced them to come for a week to spend Christmas with me and travel some.  My original plans were to stay and travel Europe for 3 weeks, just hooking up with whoever was staying around for that long.  My flight home isn't until January 3rd, which is longggg after anyone else in the program.  I'd purchase a Eurorail Pass and conquer Europe in 3 weeks, which sounds like a fantastic plan as is.  However, a solo Christmas freaks me out.  So now my parents might come and we would do Christmas in Paris :)  I would pretend to be princess Anastasia for the night of course and we would have a lovely Christmas.  So, crossing my fingers, wishing on eyelashes and birthday candles that this works out.

This is my wishing face

Also, my boy Charlie convinced me that going to Mumford and Sons in London for a-price-I-can't-say-on-here-because-it-is-a-little-absurd would be a good idea.  And he is 100% correct.  A my rule is I can't say no.  So I will be in London on December 18th and in Ireland the days before that.  So exciting!!!

Manana we are going to Toledo with the program.  I'm kind of excited, but honestly I want a day to sleep in.  And that just isn't happening lately.  We just finished midterm week here.  It went better than at Duke but still not fun.  It's your standard Duke-ish type midterm and they all suck so the focus of this blog is NOT on midterm week.  We shall skip over all of that.

Amanda and Knierim and other people from Duke came to Madrid this week from Monday to Thursday.  We are all the worst though and never even saw each other.  The phone situation did not work out and I could not contact them at all.  I also was going to class during the day and trying to go out with them at night all while studying for midterms.  Last night was the worst trying to find them.  One of the biggest problems in Spain is communication.  It's old school without wifi on the iphones everywhere you go.  You actually have to call people or sometimes use carrier pigeons.  This is not something I think I will ever get used to.  The point of this story is my friends came to visit and I never saw them.  Haha oopsyy.This weekend my other friends are coming so wish me luck with that.  If I don't see Brittany Cohen I will cry.  But I am pretty convinced we will see each other.  She is visiting from Barcelona and then I go to Barcelona in the middle of November.  In a week I leave for Copenhagen!  Sensation white, what's good?!

I just put on the Sound of Music to inspire me to want to go to Vienna one day and to sing songs about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens and all of my favorite things!!  I'm gonna go rock out with Alexandra now and sing without waking Carmen up.  Adios muchachos!

My second favorite place in the world, next to Duke :) My friend on the basketball team at CEU invited me to go with her to her house in San Sebastian anytime.