Sunday, January 18, 2015

Two weeks, dos semanas

Este es loco.
    At this time in just two short weeks, I will be flying in an airplane across the Atlantic.  My location of departure: JFK International Airport.  My destination:

Seville, Spain.

    This experience has been in the blueprints since I started my first year at Eastern University.  To travel abroad has been a lifelong goal that I hoped to achieve in my time at college.  The question was simply, where to?  Where would I decide to spend my spring semester of my junior year?
    I guess my answer to that question begins in high school, with another goal of mine.  I truly truly truly, with all of my heart, wanted to learn to speak another language.  As you may have guessed by now, I chose to learn Spanish.  Although I only spent two years studying it in high school, I fell in love with the various Hispanic cultures that we learned about, and I was determined to master (or at least gain a working understanding of) the Spanish language.  So, I minored in Spanish.
    And what better place to challenge your incomplete knowledge of the Spanish language, than to use it in the country it originated?

España.

It's even got a smooth, romantic, alluring sound to it, doesn't it?

    With my decision to study in Spain, I worked with Spanish Studies Abroad and applied to the business program in Seville.  Since then, I've been accepted, got my passport, got my visa, studied hard in Spanish, shopped for European style shoes (which is so important actually), and I've even spoken to my señora in español!

It's crazy.  This is easily the most unsafe, extreme thing I've ever done in my life...

...and I wouldn't give up the experience for anything.

So here's to Seville, to new friends, to learning a new culture, and to drinking lots of wine.  Yes, mucho vino para mí.

Con amor,
Derek

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