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Sunday 23rd ,July 2006

Daddy´s Sad Day

Here´s a link to my dad´s blog.... well, there´s also one to the side... (www.henrynewberry.com) but there you can read his sad story and see some pretty nice pictures... although in one I have a funny face.  It was so bright that I didn´t want to open my eyes til right before they took the picture, so I have no smile and squinty eyes... Oh well.  :)  And, there is also a nice picture of my pretty little engagement ring, although the picture is quite big.

I love my Dad, but the blog is kinda depressing, so in response there is this posting.  I love that crazy, funny, kooky, sweet handsome man in those pictures with me, and I´m gonna marry him!  It´s still almost unbelievable, but then I look across the room, and he´s there, smiling back at me, and I can and do believe it. 

I´ve applied to a school here, near his university, affiliated with it, actually.  They have a very good "Magisterio" program, or Elementary Ed program, and I´m also looking into teaching English or coaching elocution or other things like that.  I really enjoyed teaching the Modrego boys, but they´ll be on vacation for almost a month, and then I´m going to Amsterdam with Jorge to meet and greet my Dad and Pat after their cruise down the rhine river. 

We´re going tomorrow to the Juzgado to fill out and turn in the papers for us to be married... because it takes like 3 months for them to process.  Then we´ll really be on our way to getting married... just need some engagement pictures and invitations and a photographer and official government permission and flowers and to plan a reception in Provo and one in Ohio that won´t be til next year and to register and to find an apartment and buy furniture and figure out how we´re going to afford the rent (it´s scandalously high here) and figure out food and decorations and schedules and practice times for the actual day, and also find time to relax and eat a sleep a little....

Whew!  Wish us luck!

Lots of Love and HUGS to everyone...

Rachel

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Saturday 22nd ,July 2006

Hello from Spain

Hello from Spain!

I´m not dead yet, although you might think I´d die from the heat a week ago.  This week is much cooler, and I´m more accustomed to the Mediterranean climate.  I got here on the 12th, which means I was coherent on the 13th, and which also means that I was finally sleeping normally on the 15th.

But, it´s getting kinda late here, and I need to sleep, so I´ll make this short and sweet.....  I´m engaged!  To: Jorge Abel Freire Garcia-Zarco (shout out to Ally)  We´re getting married the 6th of October, but we might not make it if we don´t get to sleep in a normal schedule!  I´ll send everyone a huge e-mail with a huge long story... tomorrow.

G-night!    Rachel

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Tuesday 20th ,June 2006

I can't beleive it's Summer already!

Hi again everyone, I bet you thought I dropped off the face of the planet. Well, actually, I just couldn't access my blog for a few months, but now I can again, so things are peachy.  I finished the craziest semester of my life (so far) and actually got pretty good grades all things considered.  I quit one of my three jobs, and the other ends this month, so I really only have one job to worry about, phew!  Oh, and I took a lot of fun classes this past Spring term, like Kama Karate and Cooking, and a couple of amazing religion classes.  All in all the last few months that you haven't heard anything from me have gone from super stressful to less, to more, and now is exam week for Spring, so the stress is back up, but only for the next few days, and then I'm out of school for summer!  Yes!

And, I'm going to Spain for the rest of summer, YES!  I'm leaving the 11th of July, and depending on how things go there, I might be staying for a while...

But I'm sure you'll be hearing abou that soon!

Love and Hugs to Everyone,

Rachel

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Friday 17th ,February 2006

Wow

So, pretty much this semester is crazy.  I have lots of art classes which require me to do tons of projects, and I'm also working 2 jobs.... I don't know what I was thinking... and maybe that's why I did it.  I am learning about myself, about what I can handle, and how to make wiser compromises to still be able to get everything done.... Or at least I was until this boy from Spain came for a very unexpected, but not unwelcome, visit for a week.  I really was completely surprised... mostly because I have no time to think about anything but what I'm doing next.  We had a good time, and went on a date, for the first time ever, and I'm really glad he came.

So now I'm getting back into a somewhat routine and getting used to working really hard again.  It's interesting to learn all over again that I really have to stay healthy and get enough sleep or I won't be able to get anything done.  If I don't stay on top of my work it will drag me down and get me sick too.  It's so interesting....

Hope you are all having a good new year, and that it's gotten off to a good start for you.

Love and Hugs,        Rachel

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Sunday 18th ,December 2005

School's OUT for Christmas!!!

Can you believe that I'm already done with the last semester ever before I start my major???? Neither can I!  I'm so excited to see my Mom and all my Aunts and Uncles and Cousins this coming weekend. I'm driving down to Arizona all day Friday.  I actually have to work all week before that... I want to get as close to 40 hours as possible, which means working about 9 hrs a day, with a 1/2 hour break for lunch.  I really wont have anything else to do since Provo is being emptied of 3/4 of its populace as we speak... write, that is.  So I'm just going to occupy my self with lots of work and look forward to next week, when I don't have to work at all!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight, or good morning, as the case may be...

Love and Lots of Happy Holiday Hugs,            Rachel

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Sunday 11th ,December 2005

Almost Done!

Hello all!  Can you believe another semester has come and gone already?  It was hard to imagine at the beginning, but now... now that I'm about to start my major classes finally... now that I really have to focus and pass so I can graduate, it's almost scary.  For the next 4 days I'll be doing nothing but working and studying and taking exams, with occasional sleeping and eating thrown in.  French will probably be my hardest exam, but I actually got a 93% on my last test, so maybe I am making some progress ;)  I am planning to go down to Arizona, for the first time in about 4 years, to celebrate Christmas with my Mom and Aunts, Uncles and lots of cousins and their new babies.  I can't believe that they all are having kids, but they are, and I'm really excited to meet all the littl'uns.

Wish me luck on my exams.  I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Rachel

P.S. Pour quelqu'un d'Espagne qui lit cet message, j'espere l'ete avec impatience, et je me souviens de toi et Paris de temps en temps.  bb  RPN

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Tuesday 25th ,October 2005

The Struggle of Mid-Way (through the semster)

Yup, that's right, I'm already halfway done with my semester here at the Y in Utah.  I'm already done with my first French class (101) and now I'm on to the harder second half, but I think I'm doing pretty good still, and I cross my fingers that I got an A for 101.  Halfway also means I just went through mid-term exams.  I did really well on my dance mid-term, but i ran out of time on my religion mid-term and so I lost 7 points on my last essay because I didn't have time to polish or detail my ideas.  I still got a 91%, but if only I'd read the directions to the first essay right the first time I wouldn't have had to go back and fix it and take time I would've used on my last essay.... oh well... Live and Learn.

Outside of school I'm having a good time with church activities and callings.  I am actually a Sunday School teacher during the second block.  I only teach twice a month, but back-to-back weeks so that all the teachers can attend on the week they don't teach... if that makes sense.  I also got a new job.  A day of blisters and mowing lawns for 4 hours taught me that I was not made for grounds work.  I now work at the BYU bookstore.  I get to open boxes full of new books and see them before anyone else, and then put sticker after sticker after sticker on them... it's a little tedious, but I work early in the morning, so I'm not that awake and don't really get bored at all for the first 3 hours.

I also got to go on a date a few weeks ago.  I went ice-skating with a friend from my ward, and then we got Chinese food.  It was really fun, since it had been a long time since I last went ice-skating.  My engaged roommate gave me a ton of flack about it, and finally I had to tell her “enough already!” and now she doesn't bug me... as much... anymore.  Actually she's really cute and just a little too ditzy, even though she is going to be a nurse and is taking really hard science classes right now.  Why do girls do that? I never understand... 

Love and Hugs and Best wishes,                   Rachel

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Wednesday 31st ,August 2005

Back to School

Here I am in Utah again!  I missed my mountains, but pretty soon I'll be missing Cincinnati's big rolling hills.  Classes have started up again, but I'm taking some pretty easy ones compared to last semester.  I've got accelerated French every day, Piano, and Polynesian Dance every other day, and New Testament and Teachings of the Living Prophets on opposite days.  It's only 5 classes, but there are 8 credits of French in there, so it's getting my main focus right now.  I'm praciticing my piano an hour a day, just like it says to, and I'm not as bad as I thought I'd be.  French is a new experience, and I think the hardest part will be the writing of it, not the pronounciation or the vocab, just writing it properly.  We are only allowed to speak English for another 2 weeks in that class!  Yikes!  But actually I'm picking it up quickly... except for the spelling...

Besides school I just got a job working as a "Gardener's Helper" for BYU Grounds, so they pay me to play in the dirt and pick up a little litter, and I can deal with that.  I work from 8 am to noon, so I'll have to make myself be an early riser, but I'm doing good so-far since I got here.  Actually I need to get to bed so I can get up in time tomorrow!  Wish me luck, cause you know I'm wishing you some!

Love and Hugs,         Rachel

PS.  New pics coming soon, I won a Kodak Easy Share from this game my bank had, and I've just started going picture crazy recently... enjoy!  RN

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Friday 29th ,July 2005

Winding Down Summer Time, too.

Hi again folks!  How are you all?  I hope summer has been a lot more fun for you than it has been for me. I've worked all summer long, making some money, and spending a lot of it.  I did spend it on good things though... like new glasses and new clothes that I haven't been able to buy for 2 years... and now I'm not allowed to go shopping again until next year.  ;) 

Next week I’m taking a trip with my friend Ally, my first vacation of the summer.  We’re going to Cedar Point and to visit some friends and family around northern Ohio. Considering that I haven’t seen my family for 2 years, I think I’ll be having a really good time!                                         

Besides that, my life will pretty much be the same hum-drum-ness of work for the next 3 weeks.  I leave for Utah and BYU again on August 18th.  I’ll be driving out by myself because I have so much stuff that I need to bring with me… I won’t really be able to fit another person or any more stuff.  Currently I am trying to finish-up craft projects that I started years ago and that now really need to be done to be worth keeping.  Wish me luck!

Love and Hugs,             Rachel

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Saturday 2nd ,April 2005

Heading down the Home Stretch

             So… things here in Provo are pretty much winding down.  There are only 2 weeks left til the end of the semester.  I have 4 exams out of 9 out of the way, and now I only have morning classes on Tuesday and Thursday.  Really there is nothing much I have to focus on except getting homework done and end of year assignments and extra credit turned in on time… oh yeah, and finding a job.  I’m headed back home to Cincinnati this summer to see and visit with all my friends and family back there, and to work my bum off to make some money, and maybe have some fun too.  Besides that there’s really not much to tell, except that I realize I haven’t written anything about my trip at the end of the program in Spain…. And there is plenty to tell…

 

I went to Paris at 4 on the last day of the program.  It was ok because classes had gotten done with the week before.  I found my way through the airport and onto the train with relative ease, even though people don’t really speak a lot of English… or just don’t want to.  But I made it to the friend’s house I was staying at with out a lot of fuss.  The metro system in Paris is great, and I used it all over the place.  Saturday morning (the day after I got there) I bought some berries and mandarin oranges and yogurt, and a baguette at Paul’s (a really, really good French bread shop).  Then I made a cheese sandwich and walked along the Seine until I couldn’t feel my legs anymore and headed into the Metro to warm up and ride to Le Tour Eiffel.  I spent the whole afternoon wandering around the second and third decks, and I went to the museum/movie thing they have in it and learned all about it, and it’s pretty dang cool.  Later I went shopping in Les Halles, which is a huge shopping center all underground!  The next day I went to church in French, and it was kinda hard to follow, but it still felt like church.  Later that night we went to a Christmas church special out in Versailles, and before it started we hurried and peered into the darkened gardens and grounds of the palace, which is more like a mini city.  It was beautiful even in the dark; I just wish I’d had time to see it during the daylight.  The next day I bought a day pass for the metro and Jorge, Shane and I toured Monmatre, Sacre Couer, L’Opera de Garnier, the Egyptian obelisk south east the end of Les Champs Elysees and later L’Arc de Triomphe at the other end, when the whole length of the street was lit up with Chrismas lights in the trees.   It was a really long and fun day.  We went to the Louvre for a few hours, but I missed seeing the Mona Lisa because they were closing and kicking people out right when we got to the end of the museum wing to see it… I was a little upset….  And the next day I went back to Spain, after waiting 5 hours in the airport because I was quite early getting there, and my plane was quite late.

 

I stayed in a hostal by my church’s temple in Madrid for 4 days before I left Spain… and it was great.  I got to know to really cool girls from Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and I got to spend a few more days with my friends from Alcala before I finally had to go home.  I got on the plane in Barajas Airport after a warm hug from a dear friend and a rather sad good bye.  I pressed my nose against the glass of my window-side seat to look out at the last beautiful Spanish sunset I would see for a long time… and I watched until we were over the Cantabric sea and nearing England before I would finally concede that the sunset really was over and the last light of Spain was gone from my eyes… gone, but not lost, and certainly not forgotten.

       That night I stepped out of the plane and into a drizzly London night.  It was really nice to not have to worry about my luggage, since it was only a layover in London (A 14 hour layover!)  I decided to leave the airport and ride the tube into downtown, but of course I packed my umbrella in my suitcase.  I got off at Piccadilly Circus and it was raining pretty hard.  I decided to visit main stations, like King’s Cross, which is where Trafalgar Square is found, and Charring Cross, and then I got back on the tube and returned to the airport.  I made a quick stop at Hyde Park Corner near Buckingham Palace and it was equally as rainy there.  After I got back to the airport I slept on a bench… well dozed on a bench, cause I was getting sick and really couldn’t sleep very well due to coughing.  When I finally got into the area by my gate it was 6 am, and I was dead.  I finally went and sat looking out the window at my plane at 9 am, when the gate was finally announced.  And I woke up at 11:30, an hour and 45 minutes after my plane had left!!!  I had even missed all the announcements saying they were leaving, and this was my last warning, and they were now taking my  bags off the plane… and I was only 10 feet away from the door the whole time!

            But it’s all ok because the nice British Airways lady helped me get on the very next flight, and I got home at the same time I would’ve anyway.  And then there was fun trying to find my bags because somehow one had gotten to Cincinnati even before I did, and the second was still on the other side of the Atlantic in Heathrow airport.  That bag finally arrived at the Cincinnati airport 2 nights before Christmas, and that’s when the snow hit.  So, my bag spent the weekend at the airport, and I spent a very nice and quiet Christmas at home with my dad and step-mom. 

Then I headed out to Utah for school again… and you know the story from there.

Love and Hugs,             Rachel

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Thursday 24th ,February 2005

It's been a While....

So, as a friend recently pointed out to me, it's been a while since I've posted anything on my blog.  In fact, all my faithful readers have probably given up hope that I'll write again.  Well, I decided it's time, and since I haven't even written in my own journal for over a month, I guess I'll do that tonight too!

School is going great this semester.  I'm taking the biggest load I've ever had, but only half the classes are really hard ones, and now that I'm half-way through the semester I'm done with my first-block class.  It was only PE, so not very hard, but it was at 8 am, and that made it a little bit of a trial.  I'm so excited now, I'll get to sleep in til 10 on Mondays and Wednesdays...  Anyway, my other classes are Anatomy, Geology, Spanish Fonetics, Ibero-American Civilization, Geography, and New Testament-2nd half.  I've had 2 of my teachers before, so that makes things easier, and all of my classes are really interesting, which helps.  

Besides school, which is 2/3 of my life right now, I'm having fun hanging out with friends, and sleeping, and relaxing, and going out on occasional dates.  Both my dates (only 2 so far this semester) were really fun, and with friends, so that made things less awkward.  I've made lots of friends in my classes, and also have lots of my Spain groupies in my classes too.  It's so nice to see them everyday, it reminds me of Spain and all those good times.... :)

After the program was over in Spain I went to Paris for 4 days (loved every minute.... except for the cold) and then headed home for my 19th birthday!  A week later I drove out to Provo with my dad's help, just hours before the Wasatch Mountains got pounded by a ton of snow.  It was awesome though, cause the next day (New Years Day) I got to go snowboarding for the very first time, and on really nice Utah powdery snow.  It's much less scary to biff it when you know it's not going to hurt to hit the ground, and I did face-plant several times on my first real run down the mountain/hill.  Then a week later my friend Nicole almost broke her nose going sledding, and we took her to the hospital, and thankfully nothing was broken, but we got to spend a fun afternoon in the emergency room.  The coolest part was watching the life-flight helicopter take off from about 20 ft away.

Now I'm just trying to keep up with all my assignments and tests, just trying to stay ahead of the game and not get too sick.  All I really need is more sleep and I'll be good, so hopefully I'll get better really soon. 

I hope you are all having as good a semester/winter as I am.  I think of you all all the time, and hope that things are going well for you.  Cross your fingers that I get a job soon...  Cuase I'm flat broke.  :)  Thanks!

Love and Hugs,                  Rachel

PS.  Un gran saludo a todos mis amigos en Espana!  Lo siento que no tengo los llaves espanoles ahora... casi no se como escribir en maquina en espanol ahora...  Espero que todo va bien para vosotros.  Hasta Luego,   Raquel

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Wednesday 22nd ,December 2004

Andalucia and HOME!!!

Hi everyone!  I'm BAAAAAAACK!

Yup, that's right.  It's been almost a month since my last report.  After those trips was Thanksgiving.  We had dinner in our Prof.'s house and it was sooooooo good! 

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Tuesday 23rd ,November 2004

Segovia :D and Valladolid :-|

Well.... It´s been a while since we´ve had weekend trips.  Two weekends ago we had absolutely no scheduled trips, and I hadn´t made any plans to go with any of the groups who were going to Barcelona or London or Prague.  So what did I do???  That´s right, I spent two lovely days sleeping in and two nights having tons of fun with the few people from our group who were still here.  We went bowling and watched movies and stayed out relatively late, although it was still early for the Españoles.  And basically I just relaxed and had a good normal stress-and-trip-free weekend.  It´s nice to have those days when you have nothing to do once in a while... but two in a row is about all I can handle... After that I start to feel useless.

So this past weekend we had a really fun trip to Segovia, to see some really old Roman churches and the Aqueduct.  It was bitterly cold there, but I was prepared with my super thick winter coat and gloves and scarf and many layers of clothes.  A friend warned me that it gets really cold there, so I went prepared.  We had a good time walking around in the cold... and the aqueduct is soooo cool.  There isn´t any mortar or anything between the stones, they just sit there perfectly placed, like they have sat for two thousand years (give or take a hundred).  Until 40 years ago the main road passed underneath the aqueduct itself, but the vibrations caused by all the cars and trucks worried the conservationists that it might fall over.... so they made the road on the north side turn back away from the aqueduct and chaged the road on other side into a "zona peatonal" (only for walking).  It´s perfect because you can walk right up and touch the immense old stones and not have to worry about being run over.  To get a sense of it´s size just look at the person whose standing near the base.  I think I touched one of the blocks on the third level up from the ground without any trouble, but I couldn´t even hope to reach the top of the cross that´s in front of the pillar.  The aqueduct starts out really small and then reaches heights of at least 8 stories as it spans the gap between two hills.  It´s a very impressive sight, to be sure. 

Oh yeah, and we went to Valladolid on Saturday.  It was nice.  They have a castle there that a king once stayed in for 5 months... and lots of really old buildings.  Oh, and there was a really cool park that had an aviary and peacocks wandering around the paths and squirrels (a rare animal in Spain) that are so use to humans they´ll crawl up your leg to get a bit of nut.  Actually one did crawl up my leg, and yes I did have food for it, and no I didn´t scream.  It was really cool.... actually it´s about the coolest thing I did in Valladolid.  Oh, and later we went to a castle in Peñafiel.  It was really misty and the castle is this white beacon on top of a very high hill... it was rather like being on a movie set the way the fog and the scenery interacted and all... I got to run around all the turrets and act like a kid for 10 minutes.

All in all it was a really good weekend.  Tonight I´m going bowling in Torrejon de Ardoz! (there is a US Air base there... for those of you who might be interested...).

Amor y Besos,                          Raquel

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Wednesday 3rd ,November 2004

Travel Pictures

Really good Spain pictures website, check it out! (by the way, I live in the Communidad de Madrid)   Have fun!

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Weekend Trips Near and Far

Hey, here I am again, with more news from Spain!  The past couple of weeks haven´t been terribly interesting, just lots of homework and reading.... so I decided to hold off on writing about our trips, cuase I thought I´d keep the boredom to a limit for all our sakes...  So two weekends ago our BYU group traveled around the north-ish part of Madrid on Friday, visiting El Escorial, Valle de los Caidos and Manzanares el Real.  Saturday we went to The Tyhssen Museum and the Archealogical Museum of Spain in Madrid. Then this past weekend we went to Burgos, Santo Domingo de Silos(relatively small) and Covarrubias(very very small)... Out of all the places we´ve gone the past 2 weeks, Burgos and Sto. Domingo were my favorites, then the Archealogiocal museum, and then El Escorial... though it´s kind of morbid.

So chronologically... We started very early on Friday morning to get to El Escorial by 9 am, through all the crazy Madrid traffic. We took a tour of about half the building, and then wandered the rest (that we could enter) by ourselves. Here are some pictures (also these) I found on the web, so you can see what I saw.  The gardens are very elegant, but it was rather cold and rainy the day we visited.  I loved all the decor, all the frescoes and artwork all over the place.  The whole building in built in the shape of a grill (escorial) because Felipe II built it to honor San Lorenzo (de El Escorial).  Next we went to Valle de los Caidos, a huge monument not far from El Escorial, commisioned by Franco after his victory in the Spanish Civil War to honor those who had fallen (los caidos).  On top of the monument, which is set back into an artificial hill made with huge rocks is an enormous cross, the biggest in the world I think.  It is a good place to visit if you want to get an idea of the irony/ illogical/ insanity and sick-feeling that Franco´s dictatorship gave most Spaniards.  Compared to El Escorial the monument was nearly empty of people, and bare... it reminded me of Lord of the Rings... the ring-wraiths that is...  The word is just plain oppresive.  Oh, but I here there is a huge crowd of Nationalists on the anniversary of Franco´s death (he´s buried there).  On to happier things, like quaint little castles.  Manzanares el Real is a pretty tiny castle on the side of a lake just north of Madrid.  The best part of the tour was the view from the top of the walls.  No pictures are allowed inside the castle, just on the top (outside) level.  But we had lots of fun walking around and through the towers.  It mostly made up for Valle de los Caidos.  Our trip to the Tyssen was too short for me to really say much, but I loved the paintings there that are of 1800s American country sides.  They reminded me of home... *sniff*.  The museum of Archealogy was awesome.  They have tons of Roman and Muslim artifacts and architecture... logically... and they had a special exhibit of King Tut and they actually recreated the burial chamber in one of the rooms in the exhibit.  It was awesome, as was the mummy´s hand and the canopic jars and the sarcofagus and all the art pieces they had.  I really want to go to Egypt now!

But on to Burgos... and last weekend.  Burgos is a very nice city about 3 hours north of Madrid... and it´s biggest claims to fame are the Cathedral (of course) and Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, "El Cid."(just read the first paragraph).  The statue in the plaza just next to our hotel shows El Cid on his horse, Babieca, charging after "some recalcitrant muslims" with his sword, Tizona, hel high, pointing the way. The cathedral is the only one in the world (according to our guide) that has 3 octagonal windows (skylights really) in the center dome of three of it´s chapels.  It is also the only Gothic Cathedral from the 13th century (I think) with  two identical towers, and there is a really cool German made clock inside that has a wooden figure of a man on top that opens his mouth when it strikes 1 and 5.  Other than those 2 things there isn´t really a ton to see in Burgos, especially when it´s cold and nearly snowing.  Although there was a very fun club we went to late Friday night...

In Santo Domingo de Silos we got to hear, in-person, the group that had a number one hit on the US charts a few years back.  Gregorian Chant is a very cool thing to experience in person, and especially in a cathedral like the Monastery has with such amazing acoustics.  I felt like I was inside the music..... it was just soothing and beautiful and enchanting all at once.  The tour of the monastery took us around the inner courtyard, looking at the architecture, and then into the apothecary room where the monks cooked, distilled liquor and other things, and practiced a little alchemy now and then.  Medicine in the 13th century scares me to death...  Covarrubias was basically a very very very small town on the side of a river, but I got a very quaint and rustic vibe from the place.  Life seemed so much slower there, and none of the cares of the world are on the shoulders of those citizens.  Sometimes I miss living in a little mountain town...

Back to Madrid and back to school.  We watched Don Juan Tenorio performed live outdoors in Alcalá when we got home... Now it´s study, study, study time!

Love and Lots of Hugs,                 Raquel

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