“Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing.” ~ Helen Keller

I have been in Spain for 6 months. I am nearing the home stretch with only four months left. ONLY FOUR MONTHS. thats it. time flew by way too fast, and its only getting faster. I just had february break (which I will tell more about in a bit..and of course post some pictures..) and now I have less than four weeks before I go to Switzerland to visit ANNIKA, and then after that Lyla comes to visit! Too much happening and too little time to do it in!

So the rest of my vacation was really fun. Despite after skiing for like 7 hours straight (okay a half hour lunch break) every day and not being able to walk after...it was still fun. I am still sorta sad that there wasn´t as much snow as there is normally...or really any snow at all except for on SOME of the ski trails. But I can´t complain, at least I got to go skiing. We also visited a small town near to the small town we were staying in that had some snow...but clearly from a while ago, so it was all ugly and brown.
During vacation I definitly feel that i bonded a lot more with my little cousins. I think they finally realized I am okay to play with and that I am not some random stranger that happens to be at their grandma´s house every sunday. I spent a lot of my afternoon´s on the mountain playing in the snow with them. Here´s a picture with some of them:

Also yesterday, a friend of mine in my program who originally was living in Sevilla moved to a new family in Malaga, and now goes to my school. It is nice having another girl who speaks english, and we have become fast friends especially since she got here and I know her being here will make these next 4 more months amazing. However, the downfall to here being here is that I swear these last two days I have talked more in english than in spanish, and this cannot keep going on like this. We need to learn some self discipline and talk in spanish, even though we both can talk in english easier. That is our new challenge.

Well...I started writing this blog post and then I left and skyped with a friend of mine (also a girl in my program living in spain) who was having some problems and needed to talk...so now its 10 and I still have to study for my french test...I will write more this weekend.

Adios! or should I say Bonsoir! necesito estudiarrr!

PS...i was also gunna throw out alittle bit of what I was thinking college wise. Cuase..you know I am a junior, which means I sort of need to have a general idea. My current life plan (subject to change..) I want to major in/study international relations and affairs, translation and language interpretation, and get a certificate, or more, in teaching english as a second language. With these majors I can graduate college go teach english in other countries and live in other countries for some time (like i want to do) and teach other poeple english while living out my dream learning about other countries. Once I get bored of that (because you all know me...I like to mix things up..), I can either come home to the US and teach foreign languages at home (if I am ready to come home and settle down), or if I want to keep traveling but less long term, I can either do volunteer work, put my international affairs or translation major to use and work for the government, or big companies and do international work for them, and presumably travel.

Colleges that I am interested in that have at least two of the above mentioned majors:

1. Salem State  University in Salem, MA.

2. Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec

3. CUNY Hunter University in New York, NY (yeah, I have really warmed up to the idea of college in the city, living in a city here in Spain has really showen me how much I actually really love cities)

4. SUNY Buffalo in Buffalo, NY (Okay, i know its freezing there and I might as well go to Alaska, but...the school is great. And I prefer really cold over really hot. Maybe I should do my college visit in winter, so I can really see how cold everyone claims it is)

5. SUNY Oswego in I think Oswego, NY (Also in northern NY, right on lake ontario, but hey, why not?)

6. Bridgewater University in Bridgewater, MA

So yeah. That´s kind of what I want to do with my life at this moment in time. I also want to study abroad in college. Probably to France, cause I want to learn french. So. If you have any suggestions, comments, anything im forgetting, etc. maybe talk some sense into me. Who knows. Email me, or comment ! Thankss