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Espaa 2009

Mara Kelley

This is in Chicago when Ipicked up my Visa.

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To the right is my house,and above is a stop sign. I

had to put this on herebecause its in English. Ididnt realize this for abouta month.

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The view of thecourtyard from my room.You can see the style of

house we live in.

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This is at a country party. Theyhad a little bull fight.

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But dont get thewrong idea, Spain isnt

just about bull fighting.

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This is CayetanoRivera. He is afamous bull fighter,that I met there.My host sisterregretted decliningher parents offerto go after she sawthis. Its noteveryday you getto meet someonefamous, who youdidnt know existed2 minutesbeforehand.

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I study First Bachillereto at Diego Velazquez. It is for students ages 12to 18. The last 2 years, which includes the year I am studying, areoptional. Schooling here is a little different. We stay with the sameclass in the same room for most of the day (exceptions are P.E. outside and English library). We go to school from 8:35 until 2:15. We

have 6 classes each day, although we study 10. I am in group D and weare studying a course that deals with social sciences. In my class thereare 2 other exchange students. Taylor is from Chicago and leaves

January 14 to finish her senior year, and out of all possibilities, she willgo to college at UNL this fall. Cristina is from Austria and pretty muchhas perfect Spanish. Also what I heard beforehand, about just lecturesand tests, no homework way wrong. Plenty of homework to goaround. I use public transportation everyday, which is somethingdifferent, but I enjoy it. :D

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This is amanifestation myhost dad took me toin Madrid. Ihonestly havent

seen so manypeople in all my life.There was anentire Central Cityin less than oneblock not kidding.

And the peoplewent on for miles. Ihave seen, byaccident, othermanifestationswhile in Madrid as

well. This one wasabout abortion.

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Thanks to tourism, I mightnever escape Nebraska.

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Vicente and Mary Pez (Bethans Parents) took me to their housein the south, to discover some history of Spain. There weremany old buildings from the 13th century and so on. I decided Ilike having to learn history of my country only back 200 or so

years.

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However, Spains history is a little interesting dontworry, I wont give you a lesson, but if youd like, lookit up!

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I live in Torrelodones, and this is our castle. Its really tinyand not used for anything really, but its fun to hike up tosometimes .

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This is when my family (minus my host brother, who was inNYC for a 10 day exchange. In Feb. the girl he stayed with willcome to our house) when went to Cordoba (also in the south).

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Dad, Mom, Sister, and me

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My host dad cooling off in November

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This is Marina, my host mom, when we went tothe Museum of Torture, which they assured me,isnt significant to Spains history.

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Nina in the Cathedral. It has1000 columns and in the center

is the catholic cathedral. It wastransformed between the Aztec

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Endless beautiful gardens

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A castle in Cordoba.

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Christopher Columbus asking KingFerdinand and Queen Isabella forfunds to discover America.

Here we have Nina Mary

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Here we have Nina, MaryPez, Vicente, Paco Padre, andMarina Madre. Paco (son)was still in NYC. It was theirfirst Thanksgiving and my

mom did a wonderful job onthe turkey She was quitenervous.

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Before. After.

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Puerto Del Sol decked out forChristmas.

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Bethan and his wife took meto a REALmadrid basketballgame.

Kids here are really

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Kids here are reallyinto Graffiti, its in allthe buses, on all thewalls, everywhere.

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Nina and I took updancing; we hate the big

windows.

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At the end of the First quarter,our school had a music day,where all the day we just walkedaround and random bands andstudents would be doing musicalthings, or painting what they

hear. We ended the day with aconcert b m friends band

This is about

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This is abouthalf of my classthat decided togo to McDonaldsafter school for

lunch one day.

Taylor -Chicago

My family has a house on the beach in Moraira and we went there in the

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My family has a house on the beach in Moraira and we went there in thebeginning of December. Their neighbors are from Germany, England, andNorth Carolina.

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My host mom and sister and the other family that went with us We went

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My host mom and sister and the other family that went with us. We wenthiking all day, and then I would manage to sprain my ankle going downstairs.

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The Prado Museum Paintings you study

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more interestingthan I thought itwould be.

g y yin Mr. Andersonsclass actually are300 times cooler inperson.

This is the exact center of Spain,

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p ,located in Madrid of course. Allday there is a crowd of peoplefighting over stepping on it andgetting their picture taken.

This is a ham that pretty much everyone has in their kitchen for the entire

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p y ymonth of December. Its quite attractive, as you can tell. But this one has ablack foot because the pig is only fed acorns. You slice it really thin and its ataste that you cant really compare to anything else.