Update

I haven't written in a few days, but a lot has happened.

1) I'm going to Morocco! It's official, April 22-27 I'll be in AFRICA!

 

2) Tuesday afternoon I had a rather unfortunate run-in with a girl who doesn't like me very much- and decided to show me how much she dislikes me. DON'T WORRY. It sounds much worse than it is, I'm fine. The police were notified and they are handling it. 

4) I had a meeting with the upper school director and it looks like I will be able to graduate with my class! I knew coming into this that my year in Spain may cause me to have to repeat, but I will be graduating June of 2010!

3) Lila left this morning. This was pretty sad. (Recap for those who don't remember- Lila was my French "sister" who was here for only two months.) 

Most of the Alicante area Exchange Students at Lila's farewell dinner

4) After dropping off Lila at the airport this morning we headed to the Alicante Natura salón de medio ambiente. Which was basically a convention about living "greener" lives. It was really interesting, we attended a class about houses made out of straw-bales. I also rode a Segway. Oh, and there was free food. An all around good time.

Pancakes!

Taylor (the other American, don´t worry I´m not speaking in third person) and I made pancakes on friday night!

They were delicious!

Taylor enjoying our creation.

Lila had her first "real" american pancakes. 

Even Fina tried some, and liked it! (She told me they were buenisimo)

Everyone had a nice pancake night. Except Tino, he preferred to eat a bocadillo de jamón with a leaf he picked in the yard on top.

Puente

Every once in a while I come across a custom here in Spain that I think that the US is really missing out on.

This week I only had two days of school. Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday (Today) is a cultural day and nobody goes. Thursday is the Spanish Father's Day. Friday is puente.

For those of you who don't know, puente means bridge. This confused me. But my host mom explained to me that whenever there is a Thursday fiesta they take Friday and "build a bridge to the weekend."

That is awesome.

Also she told me that if there is a Wednesday or Tuesday Fiesta, that sometimes they build aquaductos to the weekend! 

I love getting mail...

Any mail is great... but mail from my adorable Nieces and Nephew is even better. These are pictures they drew me (of me) to thank me for a package I sent.

Thanks Guys!

By Jack. 

I love this one. My favorite part has to be the two teeth though, or maybe the mysterious tuft of purple hair between my almost invisible eyes.

By Raelyn

It is hard to decide what my favorite part about this one is... Either the earings, or my star shaped lips. Either way, I think I am quite beautiful.

By Morgan

Morgan's Picture is really good- the humor in it comes from an email I received from her a few days before the letters arrived. Here is an excerpt from the email...

taylor did you get our letters yet?Well,if you did,then you might have saw some boobs on mine.Sorry about it.Well, its just what you look like.

Felicidades Lila!

Happy 16th Birthday Lila! For those of you who don't know a french girl has been living with my hostfamily for the past  month and a half (she goes back to France in two weeks..) But for her birthday a bunch of the exchange students got together and threw her a surprise party! It ended up being a great time.

We're a pretty diverse group- the 13 of us represented 7 countries and spoke over 9 languages. 

Jana (Germany), Lila (France), and Cristina (Germany)

Marcel (Germany) and I

The party was a lot of fun and gave us all an excuse to hang out. Lila also was really surprised and said the party was "just like in the movies" (I guess that surprise parties aren't very common in France...)

Don´t you wish YOU lived in Spain?

It it pretty. Living here rules.

Carnavál

So Carnavál was a while ago... I just haven´t gotten around to writing about it. I had no clue what to expect because in the US we really don´t have a similar festival (unless you live in New Orleans). 

But it ended up being really fun. Everyone was dressed up in costumes. There were multiple outdoor stages with bands playing; everybody was dancing in the streets.

After a sometime of the main street where all of the music was, we headed to a nearby park called Canalejas. It seemed like every highschool aged kid in all of Alicante and San Juan was there. It was really fun and I ran into a few of my exchange student friends. 

Blog Switch

Ok. So I am back here... Some people had some issues reading my old blog because it loaded very slowly unless you were on a Mac. 

So just incase you missed anything 

http://web.me.com/taylorisenhour