Castello, Spain - April 13, 2004

Good! Its not just me! Another student.. Haitian-American guy from Miami was just telling me that Castillon is indeed a boring city in Spain. He loves Spain, but doesn´t care so much for this particular city. Good!! I was beginning to even question why I was in Spain in general. I still have another 5 days before the program. I might attempt to do a little traveling before it starts. Just to get away. Maybe I´ll look at my Spain Lonely Planet tonight and make a quick decision. Definetely have the time available.

Today for lunch I ordered a hambuger with eggs. It came in one of those familiar long french bread things I see everywhere else here. Strangely only burgers and eggs, not other condiments. Even stranger is they placed them side-by-side which was kind of like eating two hamburgers that just happened to be connected to each other. I guess it was good though. Just different than what I´m use to when ordering a burger.

Just another random though. In Europe its easy to accumulate a lot of change quickly!! There are 8 different coins that are common.. 1 cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents, 1 euro, and 2 euro. So just a huge pocketful of change all of the time. The first paper currency is the 5 euro. Quite a bit different than living in Korea where you predominately only use two coins (altough there are three). They are the 100 won coin and the 500 won coin. The lowest paper note is the 1000 won in Korea. So basically in Korea you almost never have any coins at all. Here you´ll find yourself with a pocketful at all times of who knows what.. and never quite adding up to something so you can easily get rid of a handful either.

This program does look pretty good once it starts. Just waiting for it to start however is the boring part. I´m reading a lot and have met some people. But still feel I just have too much time on my hands. I´m going to look at what places I can go in the meantime while waiting for orientation to start next Monday. I met the director today, she is from Western Saharra. The most interesting aspect of this program is to be one among the international students. I like that. I´m not just one of the masses, but actually one of the interntational students in a predominately European and Spanish environment. Interesting perspective in general.

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April 14, 2004

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