Hannah en España

Entry 13     Dublin I spent the first half of the week in Dublin and unfortunately, I felt awful the whole time. Fortunately, I was staying with Tori at her apartment, and I had visited Ireland before, so it was basically the best set up to be sick in while traveling. Sunday was the travel day, and I once again was as lucky as I could be while traveling with a fever because my random seat allocation placed me in a row all on my own on a mostly full airplane. We went to the grocery store to buy a few cheap meals when we landed and then just had an early night at Tori's apartment because I was exhausted. On Monday Isabel and I went into the city center and Isabel went to the library at Trinity College, which I had visited a few years prior, so I decided to wait at St. Stephen's Green Park nearby. I stopped at a bakery on the way there and bought a bag of chocolates to enjoy at the park. I have been trying to push myself to try new things and figured that you can't go wrong wi...

Entry 12     The Week As usual, not much to say about the week. I had classes and tutoring as usual!     The Weekend This weekend started early because we had a week off of school for Semana Santa so that meant a long trip which we started Thursday night! Isabel and I landed in Amsterdam after 11pm where we met with my cousin, Tori, who is studying in Dublin this semester. The Amsterdam airport was a nightmare, and we had about twenty minutes before the last train for the next five hours left so we were scrambling to find each other in the airport. We thankfully did but then separated at the trains because Isabel was in a different hostel than us. Tori and I took the train and then from the station, we walked about ten minutes to the hostel which wasn’t a bad walk since it seemed like we were in a nice part of the city, and it was extremely well lit for being almost 1am but maybe I’m just not used to cities. We checked in and were warned about the narrow and steep st...

 Entry 10 I stayed in Sevilla for two weekends and didn't do as much so this is just going to be a mini entry of the two weeks combined!      Week 9 I arrived back in Sevilla on Monday morning, rushed back to my apartment to take a shower and then ran right back out to get to my class in time! I barely slept in the airport overnight, so I was exhausted and had considered using one of my four free skips for class, but my anxiety refused to ruin my perfect attendance and I'm really glad for that because we actually got out midterms back that day. I got a perfect score on my midterm! Which I wasn't really expecting, because although I prepared, it was a difficult test, and a lot of my classmates didn't do very well so I was getting pretty nervous while I waited for my score. That was really exciting and kept me awake while I was running on 2 hours of sleep! Sevilla had a few good days of sun and warmer weather. I had my usual Tuesday tutoring where the daughter, Maria g...

 Entry 9     The Week Finals week! I had one final last week, but the rest were all this week so one on Monday, a mini presentation on Wednesday, and two tests and an oral exam on Thursday. I had tutoring with my kids on Tuesday which was a nice break from studying. I was thrilled for Thursday when I was finally done with everything, but I didn't get a lot of downtime as I spent Thursday night packing and then headed to the airport early Friday morning.     The Weekend               Friday We went to Vienna this weekend! Isabel and I somewhat last minute joined Margo and Julia's trip to Viena because Friday was Isabel's birthday, so we wanted to take a little trip to celebrate. I was surrounded by children on the flight there, but the flight was direct and only a few hours, and they were all sweet, so I didn't mind.  First impressions of Vienna/Austria: the bathrooms are WAY nicer (I hate Spain's public bathrooms). Th...