School school school

Sorry I haven't written a blog in such a long time, I've gotten a lot busier recently with school picking up. I had a test yesterday, one this morning, a spanish novel to read by Monday and another test on Tuesday. But once that is over, its off to Italy for a week. Even though its been a little busy, its been a good stretch. I've been meeting a lot of new people and working on my Spanish. Its getting a lot better and I'm starting to use it more and more. A couple nights ago, we hung out with our three friends from Germany. They are living and working here as nannies and they speak English, Spanish, German, and French. It was pretty cool, they were teaching us some German, some Spanish, and we were teaching them some English slang. They speak pretty good English, but they wanted to know some more common sayings that younger people use. And my intercambio is really cool. We've met twice, I've gotten to work on my Spanish quite a bit with her and hopefully we'll get to hang out some more. Its nice to have a local connection.

It has rained for the last couple days here and on Tuesday it hailed like crazy. I got off the bus to walk home and golf balls started falling from the sky. Ok, maybe not quite golf balls, but maybe peanuts or something like that. But they were falling fast and furiously. It was pretty cool, I don't get that very often back home.

Last weekend Evan and I went to Santander, which is about an hour and a half bus ride west along the coast. It was easily the coolest place I've ever been. We spent about 7 or 8 hours just walking the coastline and climbing the rocks out to the water and hiking up these hills to where a cliff dropped off into the ocean. There was this really sweet golf course that went right up to the edge of a cliff and I would have killed to be able to play it. 

I was in awe the entire day. It seemed like we traveled to the edge of the world (as you can see in the picture of Evan looking down into the water). I don't know why this place isn't talked about more in the Basque Country or, to be quite honest, in the rest of the world. I can't imagine there being a more beautiful coastline.

Well that is all for now. This weekend we've got some friends from San Sebastian coming to visit and we're going to an Athletic Bilbao futbol game on Sunday for Fabrice's birthday, which should be awesome. I'll let you all know how it goes.