Well…I’m 22. Weird. It was fun to have a birthday in Spain, but I missed my family and especially Joey who always makes me feel so special on my birthdays, but it was fun. I want to apologize for taking so long to update, but I have been preoccupied since the seventh and last Harry Potter book came out. Those of you who know about my sad little obsession understand why I have been out of touch. But alas, it was the final story and so has brought my obsession so an emotional end. Those of you have read it will understand what I mean.

Now that that is out of the way, I wanted to talk a bit about what else I have been doing in the past week or so. This last weekend I visited my most favorite place by far. San Sebastian! A small little beach town at the very top of Spain, ridiculously close to France. It is an amazing place. beautiful, fun, relaxing. I had a really good time. There were about 9 of us who went. But before San Sebastian 3 of us skipped school on Friday (we can miss one day) and went to Bilbao and saw the Guggenheim Bilbao. AMAZING!! It is by far the coolest piece of architecture I have ever seen and it is amazing. The artist that they were featuring was really cool too - Anselm Kiefer. Really amazing stuff. Obviously we couldn’t take pictures inside the museum so I don’t have any examples, but I am sure if you googled him you could see what I mean. Plus, my camera ran out of battery while taking pictures of the outside of the Guggenheim so it wouldn’t have mattered much : ( Below are pictures of the one pic I got of the Guggenheim, my first hostel, churros and coffee for breakfast, and the giant flower scottie dog in front of the Guggenheim. Basically Bilbao in 4 photos!

We took a bus from Bilbao to San Sebastian and met the rest of the crew. We spent two nights there in this hostel that had just recently become a hostel so it was really clean and nice. But the people at the hostel actually lived there and tried to sleep there which is a big mistake. Because all 15 people in the hostel weren’t going to come home at a decent sleeping hour, so we would get this man coming out of his bedroom at all hours of the night telling us to be quiet. But it was fun! Pictures provided below.

Now, normally I don’t like scenery pictures, but isn’t it beautiful?!?! This is me on Shell Beach (Playa de la concha…or something like that, the little bit of fat on my tummy is what happens when all you can eat are pinchos : )) and a picture of the other beach in San Sebastian. We named it Playa de los jovenes…kind of reminds you of San Diego, huh Joey? (La Jolla on a Saturday in July perhaps…) But it was fun! There is also a pic of our new/clean hostel and as I promised, another statue. This one however is alive (we discovered that they are big on live statues in San Sebastian.) Also provided is a man riding a unicycle and blowing a whistle in sharp short spurts. Very amusing : )

Once we returned from our weekend it was my birthday and our last week of school for the July session. It went by pretty fast. (I kind of wish I was able to just travel over the next month instead of being in Oviedo, but it will be fine.) For my birthday some of us went out to the only sushi restaurant in the city. It was fun. I also bought myself Harry Potter and just finished it yesterday. All in all it was a good birthday and it has been a good week in Spain.

This weekend I am off to Barcelona for our short break between sessions. School starts again next Thursday… I will be sure to give a thorough update upon my return. I love you all! Hope all your summer’s are good. I hear its hot back in Eugene! A far cry from Oviedo! I miss everyone. Let me know how y’all are doing!

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