This was gonna be my last post..

...But I don't think I can plan for that. So no pasa nada!

I've finished all my finals. I've packed up (after buying a THIRD tiny suitcase that will run me like $120 extra... wutever just tryna get home)... Waiting on dinner and then a big farewell botellon with my AMERICAN FRIENDS and also Nacho and Fernando because they REFUSED TO DO IT YESTERDAY.

Anyway, here's what I'd intended to write. 

WHY SEVILLA IS THE BEST.

Reasons why Sevilla was the best choice I could have made:

1. Barcelona - way too enormous, though beautiful, people speak English and Catalan A LOT.

2. Madrid - not European enough.. also, I just wasn't very impressed when I visited.. too many people

3. Salamanca - it's a college town, so everything is cheap, but it's smaller and much more easy to be bored.

4. Granada - TINY

Reasons why CIEE specifically was one of the best programs I could have chosen

1. Interest Groups and Intercambios - they REALLY give you a lot of opportunities to make spanish friends

2. University classes - I didn't take advantage of this, but also a wonderful way to make spanish friends

3. All the trips they take us on!

4. Absolutely wonderful teachers, with classes that are academically challenging but also keep in mind that you are ABROAD and don't want to be doing work constantly

FRIENDS.. obviously... I wouldn't have met all the people I did without coming to CIEE Sevilla. Made some great friends that I hope to stay in touch with for a very long time to come!

I'm constantly thinking oh, I have to do this and this and this when I get home, but how will I say that in Spanish -- Oh wait.. I don't have to… It'll be a huge challenge to keep fresh in my mind all that I've learned. Even if I can't talk as well as I would have liked, I can speak without so much inhibition, and I can understand UN MONTON better than I ever could have dreamed.

Also, I retract my previous post about the NO8DO tattoo. If I were to get any tattoo commemorating this trip, it would be this one:   

 A combination of 'no pasa nada' and NO8DO - the two things from España I'll carry with me for quite some time. We'll see if I still like the idea in a few months ;P It probably wouldn't go right on the wrist either...

Also, if anyone was wondering.. I made it through with 8 chapsticks. HEHEHE