Venga, Vale, Vamos Blog

Visa Appointment DONE

Hallelujah, my visa appointment is done and over with! The stress over obtaining a visa has been quietly gnawing at me for the past four months or so, and I suppose I won’t be...

Stonehenge Summer Solstice Festival

London + Stonehenge Summer Solstice Festival

Believe it or not, more than a year later, I still haven’t finished writing about my 2009-2010 trips, and also believe it or not, I do plan to finish posting about them! Only two...

Machu Picchu

Updates

The following things have happened in my life since we last spoke: I graduated! (Well, okay, my last post came a few days after that, but I never mentioned it.) So I’m a college...

5 Reasons Sevilla is Amazing

Between my four visits to Sevilla (“Seville” in English), I fell in love with it. It’s a city with a population of about 1.5 million (a little bigger than San Diego) located in the...

Sevilla, Spain

Villarrasa, Huelva, or Sevilla?

With my school being located in the tiny town of Villarrasa in between the cities of Huelva and Sevilla, the question is: where to live? Villarrasa, Huelva, Sevilla, or another town closer to Villarrasa?...

It’s here!

It’s here. The placement letter I’ve been anxiously awaiting, well, really since I first discovered this program more than two years ago. If I choose to go to Spain in the fall, as I...

Miró Spanish Civil War

Tan Pronto

As I’m writing this post, I should definitely be working on my 20-page research paper due Thursday (about art of the Spanish Civil War! see how Spain pervades my life?), but odds are that...