First and foremost, an apology for the dry spell, as it probably appears that I have frolicked into Spain and abandoned my blog completely. Well, this is half-true. I've been frolicking, but I had no intention of keeping my experiences to myself! Three-ish weeks ago, my hard drive failed, causing me mild panic and a lot of stress, seeing as my laptop is my main source of communication and doing work for school while abroad, and the only way I could really find out what could be done or relay my issue to anyone who could help me was in Spanish. Luckily, after a week of researching and worrying and communicating with my program director and the help of my father, I was able to go with her student assistant, Maria, who speaks a fair amount of English to an Apple store in Madrid, and she helped me explain the problem to them, but more importantly she helped me understand what the policies were and what they were going to do with it. Special thanks to my still applicable AppleCare, Maria, my dad and some generous people at Apple, I now have my computer back with a functioning hard drive, a new keypad and my old hard drive so that I can try to have my old info extracted elsewhere. Good deal considering all the effort it took to get here!
While I am dumping my life from the past month back onto my computer, in words and images, it'll take a few days before I get another post up, but if you have interest, a piece of work I had submitted to Pictory, an online captioned photo magazine that I love, was published in their latest showcase.
To view it simply go to http://www.pictorymag.com/ and view the showcase titled Love Without Language, and my pictory (picture-story) is number 17 if you scroll through! I highly recommend viewing the other showcases, too; they're magnificent and I find the whole concept of the site to be so innovative and packed with creativity.
Since I've been gone, I've traveled to London, Paris, Barcelona and Toledo and begun my full semester.
Things are picking up pace, and as of three days ago, we've been here an entire two months already. Hard to believe, and I think the next two will only fly by faster. Since I've been gone, I've re-learned that patience is a virtue, and that although at times I may feel lost, I'm never alone. I've also learned to believe my own words, in finding the benefit in living simply.
More pictures and adventure details to follow! I promise :]
