Classes completed

Welp, I have officially finished my classes here abroad. It still doesn’t feel like I’m actually done. I keep thinking that I’m still going to have the same routine of going to class next week. But it’s starting to hit me that my time here is coming to an end as everyone is starting to leave and talk about what they’re doing for Christmas and their travel plans. This has been one of the tougher things so far that I have to deal with while abroad. I feel like I wasn’t really prepared for everything to come for an end so quickly.

However, I’m excited for what I have coming up in the next few weeks. I have a week essentially now of not having classes. Therefore, I’m going to try to make the most of the time I have left with people here in Murcia that I’m not going to have the opportunity to see again. This will be especially nice as I won’t have any classes or exams anymore to worry about although the truth is that it’s going to be really weird not seeing the people from class everyday anymore. As I mentioned in one of my earlier blogs, we are only about 18 people in my classes and over the semester we have all grown really close as we are always together and working on our classwork together. This has been especially cool because I’ve had the chance to make so many friends from different parts of the U.S. and China of all places.

Back to my plans.. I plan on going to Paris from the 24^th to the 27^th. I’m really looking forward to this as I have never been to France before, much less Paris. It’s going to be really weird not being at home for Christmas for the first time in my life but I’m also excited about this opportunity. Afterwards, I have a friend coming from the states to visit for a few day. We’re planning on traveling around the north of Spain for several days to see three different cities: San Sebastian, Bilbao, and Pamplona. This will be a lot of fun and pretty cool because I have only been to one city in the North of Spain up until this point. Also Sebastian and Bilbao are known for being in what’s called the Basque Country. This is northern part of region of Spain known for having it’s own language, not at all similar to Spanish, as well as having it’s own culture. For many years, a lot of people in this region have wanted to be independent from Spain.

Anyways, after these few days we are going to return to Madrid and pass New Year’s Eve downtown there with the celebration going on. Finally, on the 1^st of January I plan on returning to Murcia to spend a few more days there until I head back to the good ole U.S on the 7^th of January. I’ll keep y’all updated and let you know how my travels go in these upcoming weeks.