Katie in Spain: I'm home!

So I do realize that this blog is a few days late, seeing that I have been home since Monday. Well my apologies, but I was welcomed back to the United States with a nice 102 degree fever and the 24 hour stomach bug... so I wasn't doing too much of anything for my first few days back. On today's agenda was my wisdom teeth surgery, so after amusing the oral surgeon and his nurses with my reaction to the laughing gas, I spent my third straight day in bed watching Gilmore Girls and noshing on soft-foods galore. Oh pudding. Tomorrow I'm looking forward to breathing some outside air and I may make it to the pool (but only to pass out on a lounge chair, nothing too crazy just yet.)

As for the end of our time in Spain. The last week flew by and included a flamenco concert, exams, and "graduating" from the university of Cádiz and receiving our very official certificates. We traveled to Granada for our last weekend, and despite the 45 degree Celsius (yes, that DOES convert to 115 degrees Farenheit) temperatures it was definitely worth the trip. We got to see the tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella in La Capilla Real, La Catedral de Granada and of course La Alhambra (which was absolutely AMAZING). It was really cool to see so many of the things we had learned about in Alberto's Art History class. (The Alhambra is significantly cooler in real life as opposed to a picture on a powerpoint screen, just saying.)

Well, I just felt like I should have a final blog entry for some closure. Thank you so much to everyone for following my time in Spain and I hope that you at least sort of enjoyed reading my ramblings about our experiences. I uploaded some more pictures from the last few weeks of the trip (it's amazing how quickly photos upload when you're not using the free WiFi in Plaza San Antonio!! Claro!!). Thank you again!

ADIOS!!!!

~Katie~

Last day of art history class with Alberto (we thought seriously about kidnapping him and bringing him back to Davidson to teach in the Spanish department...)