Smile and wave, smile and wave

I'll be on a plane back to California in less than a month! See you guys soon.

Where the wild things at?!

SCHOOL IS OVER. Summer is mine. Adventure time!

Campeones, campeones!

Last weekend were the parties of my little town and they were truly amazing. Some of the best days I've had here. The rumor that the Spanish now how to throw a party ain't no lie. They basically set up a fair, with rides and food stands and everything. But more fun than any of that were the "peñas" which are friends that form a group, give it a name, make shirts, have their own little house with a bar and couches and even build a car for the peña car races. I wasn't actually in one but I knew/met so many people. They're all very nice and welcoming to the foreigners.

Here are videos of the car races. My favorite peña, with my favorite boys, won.

Brits and Italians and Retiro...oh my!

Fi, Steph, Tom and Phil from Southwest London, Francesco from Italy, and the two girls from California. It's amazing the wonderful groups that form on any hot sunny day in the Retiro. I've never had so much fun in my life than with the foreigners I've met here. We may be from different parts of the world but we all have one thing in common: the excitement of a new city right beneath our feet, just waiting to be explored.

Although leaving will be a very bittersweet day, the comfort of knowing I have new places to go and amazing friends to reunite with is enough.

Temperature drop

22 days left of school.

Semana Santa