Oh my... less than 24 hours... like I told the girls yesterday, I have oxymorons in my stomach - bittersweet, nervous-excited, jumbo-shrimp... jaja :D I just finished my classes. It feels so good to be done but at the same time it makes me very sad. The time always passes so rapidly. Not fair! As weird as this may sound, I'm going to miss my teachers (even Don Juan jaja). Between Don Juan and my host family - they have taught me so much Spanish! The other day Don Juan gave me a very nice compliment about my Spanish - he said "has aprendido español perfectamente. es increíble." which translates to "you have learned spanish perfectly. it is incredible." I have come so far in the last 4 months. I wish I could stay for longer and see how fluent I could really get! I have had the time of my life learning Spanish and will continue to do so!
The past couple days have been full of packing and goodbyes (not so much studying jaja). On Monday I said goodbye to Intercambio 2, Pedro. Kinda triste. However it was harder to say goodbye to Intercambio 1, Javier. My friend Carly and I both have intercambios who are good friends. So last night we all went out to dinner for a last goodbye. We had sooo much fun! Between English, Spanish and the language barrier - it was ALL laughs! I even got some good videos of us being funny at dinner. Carly and I taught the boys some good English phrases and vise-versa. :) Both Javier and Juan Antonio promise to visit us in the States. Can't wait for that experience!!! Until then we will use Skype or as the Spaniards pronounce it - "skeeeepe" Oh, how I will miss España.
After our entertaining dinner, Carly and I headed over to Morgen's apartment where the "gang" was - eating cake with "frosting" and having one of our last "hoorahs". ¡Qué Triste! I am going to miss everyone so much. Its unbelievable how close we have all grown. Pues.. there's always Cabo, right ladies? ;)
Right now I am just thinking of all the wonderful moments I have had and how blessed I am. When I was on my way to España in January, I never imagined it would be this amazing. Wow. Although its coming to an end, we will always have the memories (and the photos or videos).
Tomorrow I take off for Barcelona, where I am going to try to meet up with Gina's former foreign exchange student. Saturday my flight takes off in the afternoon for Vienna, Austria where I will start my 18 day journey. From Austria I will head to Prague where I will meet up with Carly and her brother. Then Berlin where I will stay with Katie, who is doing a STINT in Berlin with Campus Crusade!!! After Berlin is Munich with my one-and-only hermano, Jared! I cannot wait to see him!! We already have plans to go to a castle and a concentration camp. If it works out we will meet up with one of our Liberty, MO neighbor's foreign exchange student who lives near Munich. Finally, there will be a night train to Paris where I will spend four nights before flying direct from Paris to Chicago on June 2nd. What a ride! I will continue you to keep you posted as much as possible!
Hasta entonces!
Dos besos,
Sarah
Later that day...
So after debating back and forth over whether to bring vino and other Spanish gifts back home with me via my friend Sara who lives in Iowa City, we decided yes that we would transport vino etc. in my suitcase. No pasa nada. Well this afternoon I went to the Correos so they could weigh my suicase. First thing the guy says when he picks it up is: "¡Joder!" and I respond naturally: "¡Sí Señor!" ... 28 kilos later... mi maleta ha roto. Pues.... no más vino... oops! I go home to Feli and Alba to tell them about the incident - "Madre mia" was all they could say. Yo tam. Yo tam. So I dropped the broke suitcase off by the garbage, went to get more money to buy another China-shop suitcase, and when I came back - my broken suitcase was gone. Literally 5 minutes. Or less. I kid you not. So then I go to another China-shop and the only suitcase they had was hot pink (sorry sara!!! you are going to look fly wheeling this baby through the airports jaja). And now, three bottles of vino less... I am praying this suitcase doesn't fail me. ¡Fracaso!
PS I want to apologize in advance to all of my loved ones who were going to get Grade A vino from Spain as a gift. Now you are gift-less. Lo siento mucho. :(
Pues... estas cosas pasan. Now I don't have to worry about customs getting upset. ¡Bien!
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