salamanca

Last night was my last night in Salamanca, Spain. In less than one and a half hours from now I am boarding a bus for Madrid and then tomorrow I board a train bound for Paris. On tuesday the 10th I finally return to the states. In all honesty I don?t really want to leave Salamanca but I guess that I am ready to come home.

To say goodbye to all our friends and to just generally have a good time Jenson and I threw a fairwell dinner party in our apartment. 12 or so people showed up and we cooked a perfect amount of food for all. I have to say that the best thing about living in Spain, in regards to cooking, is the vast amount of inexpensive wines. I picked up a bottle of white vine last night for a euro and it was the best cooking wine it tasted really good. For dinner I made salad, spaghetti, trout, shrimp pasta, curry chicken?and boiled up some shrimp. The meat and fish markets here are freakin? amazing I love them, the meat is incredibly fresh. To drink we went somewhat traditional and had sangria, calimochos and, of course, lots and lots of red wine.

After dinner we all hit the town for one last loop around the bar/club scene here in Salamanca. I am not going to miss it all that much but it was a good time last night.

I better get my butt on the move or I might miss my bus. My next blog will probably be when I am back in the states.

If you met me in Europe and are waiting for me to upload pictures check back in a few days I?ll have them up, honest.

Tonight is my last night in Salamanca, Spain. It has been a freakin? awesome month and I will definitely return to Spain. My roommates, classmates plus a few random people from around town are having a dinner party tonight in our apartment. It should be quite fun.

Tomorrow we are off to Madrid and on Saturday I head out for Paris. Sometime next week I?ll upload all of my pictures and update you all on my trip home.

Until then....

My run yesterday was great! I ran past the city limits of Salamanca and then ran along the border of the town. I can now honestly say that I have ran throughout the entire town of Salamanca out to each of the borders, it took me 4 weeks and I had to run about 3 to 4 times each week but I did it!!! The storm rolled in yesterday right when I began my run but I still ran in it anyways. It was quite fun, the wind provided enough resistance to make my legs ache this morning. The rain came down pretty hard at times and I was drenched within a matter of minutes but like I said it was about 30 when I went running so who cares.

Towards the end of my run I discovered a new park. It is similiar to the park that I have been going to but the grass is greener and all of the equipment is newer in the park (sit up benches, monkey bars, swings, etc. etc.). I went back to the park today to do a workout on the equipment. It is a perfect place to workout because it has a track that leads you to each of the different workout places so you can run, do some exercises, run some more, do more exercises, etc. etc.

In other news. Tonight we are heading out to another concert at Domus Atrium 2002, the same place where we saw The Ladybug Transistor. I think this concert brings my concert count in Spain to 12 or so. There were a few other concerts that I wanted to go to but I missed them for various reasons. Tomorrow night I am heading to a Flamenco concert with a few classmates that should be pretty interesting. Everyone has been telling me that Flamenco concerts are boring but they also said that bullfights were boring and to be honest I kinda liked the bullfight.

I have decided to leave town a day early and head to Madrid for two days. Upon the recommendation of a particular person I have to go to the Prado and a few other museums. Sander, Daniel, Jenson and I are going to head to Madrid on Friday morning and spend the night. Daniel, Jenson and I are all leaving from Madrid bound for different destinations. Daniel is heading back to Holland, Jenson to London and myself to Paris. Sander is staying in Salamanca for another week or two so he?ll be heading back to Salamanca. I may update my blog tomorrow but if not I will update it when I am back in the US, trying to find an internet cafe in Paris is freakin? difficult.

Until next time....?

The current time is 6:20 in the evening here in Salamanca, Spain and we are about to get the first storm of the summer. The clouds have darkened, the wind has picked up and any minute now it is going to start downpouring on us. The temperature is about 30 or 33.

I?m going running!! This is going to be so much fun.

The numbers of days I have left in Spain has hit single digits. This is not good. I am in freakin love with Spain and I do not want to leave. This place is awesome and I could learn so much more spanish if I could stay for another 2, 3 or 4 months. I hate being so dang responsible because in reality there is nothing stopping me from staying several more months except the fact that I have start working, buy a house and become a responsible member of American society.

In other news I uploaded 40 some-odd pictures of Salamanca. It is nowhere near the amount of pictures I have actually taken but it?s difficult uploading pictures here because I do not want to be inside at all.

I would stay in Spain longer BUT I have to get back to America so that I can help vote little boy blue out of the White House.