finals already?!

I successfully passed the two week intensive spanish class! We had a final on Friday and it went surprisingly well. I think I know more than I give myself credit for. Sill struggling to understand what's on the news but I can take grammar tests, so that's a start.. 

A few of the girls decided to take our own hiking trip yesterday- unplanned, unresearched, and without guys trying to tell us where to go.. We just started walking. Im pretty sure we went to the next town.. It had to be more than 6 miles for sure. I felt like the boxcar children or something, we were walking along the train tracks and it looked like a desert- cacti and all! Either that or something from the movie Holes. The view from the top of another mountain was so pretty, of course, like everything else in this country. I can't wait to be able to swim in the clear blue Mediterranean! 

on the way there...

abby and me!

view of alicante

This place is so romantic. I definitely need to find myself someone to date, like asap. Everything we do is like a movie: sipping coffee for hours at a vine covered cafe next to gigantic ficus trees, strolling along the beach in the sunshine with no where to be until morning, climbing mountains to sit at the top and just admire the gorgeous landscape, having a mojito at a sandy floor bar under a canopy of trees, going on a run through quaint parks next to the marina and seeing the most precious little Spanish kids running around with their parents, ahh I could go on and on. It's a great life here. For us it's temporary, (at least for me.. I am actually going back to reality sooner rather than later..), but for the people here, this is life as we know it! They are so laid back about everything and people just stroll around like they have no responsibilities and no where to be. And the whole nap thing is great. But someone has to get stuff done, so that's why America exists I guess.. I could live in Europe for a period of time longer than just to study, but there's something about being productive that I need in my life..


Here are a few from the castle hike with our group. This is a castle in Alicante and has a lot of cool history. We did it as an activity with our class!

DG love, from Spain

 Also went to my first fútbol game this weekend! The alicante team is supposed to be really good for the second division (not the big one) but they ended up losing.. But the game was really fun!

 

This post wouldn't be complete if I didn't mention my newest addition to my wardrobe- other than the chocolate pastry that is cramming itself into every pair of jeans I own- the most perfect new evening bag/purse! Everyone was making fun of me for taking my iPad out the first few weeks And I only had this one cross body bag that it fit in. I've been looking for a new one for awhile now and this is exactly what I wanted: black leather with a gold chain and big enough for more than a phone and camera. But whats better is that my iPad fits in it! It is actually made for an iPad, like with the case part and everything. So now I can secretly take my iPad out and no one can even see it! 

the bag in action, kind of hard to see .

Also, more excitement for the day-I finally found out how to make my 6 in 1 curling iron/straightener that the box says into a straightener! I opened it after paying an arm and a leg for it to not find the straightener part.. Until 3 weeks later. So no more air dry or curling everyday! It was a great day.

-k