Tuesday, June 5, 2012

the journey




hola a todos,

i hope that you all are doing well! i write you in the midst of exams, presentations and papers, and yet still find myself with little to complain about. sipping coffee this morning in a corner cafe while listening to some classic american blues i could not help but think about how unlike any other exam period these past few weeks have been (and how funny it was that they were playing american blues!)


the real reason that i am writing though, is because i have been doing a fair amount of reflecting lately. straight up jesuit style. father paulson would be proud! but truly, it has been a rude awakening realizing how little time i have left here. the fact that my eurotrip is coming to an end is a thought that i am simply not yet ready to accept.


i have decided though, in part thanks to my previous departure experience last semester, that rather than fret and sweat, i ought to just try to enjoy my last month here as much as i can without dwelling too much on the sad aspects of it all. so i have been doing my best! last night that meant making dinner with friends, chatting with spaniards, italians and swiss, and like always, meeting cool, new people.


one thing that is fun though, is to think of all of the places that i have been over the course of these past nine months. to even start to begin listing them off is difficult, but i am about to give it a go. forgive me if i leave off a small italian town or two!




italia:

firenze
fiesole
cinque terre
montepulcino
siena
roma
bologna
milano
verona
pisa
lucca
arezzo
monterchi
urbino
san gimignano



austria:

viena



hungría:

budapest



czech republic:

praha



suiza:

geneva
gstaad



inglaterra:

londres



marruecos:

marrakech
essaouira
casablanca




españa:

madrid
toledo
segovia
la granja
trujillo
mérida
cáceres
granada
sevilla
ávila
valencia
salamanca




i am actually positive that i am forgetting at least a few little italian towns, but will have to just go through my papers when i get home. what matters more now though, is how i am excited to keep going! if i have learned one thing this year, it is that i love to travel, and never want to stop. so rather than soliloquize and make you all endure cliched reflections, i will list where i will be going next. tengo ganas ya!



españa:

santiago
a coruña
león
barcelona


suiza:

wengen