I write when I am either frustrated and need to vent, or inspired and want to share. For example, I was inspired to write ‘Finding your Happy Place’ and frustrated enough to write “The Weekend from Hell’. For a while now, however, I have been neither inspired nor incredibly frustrated, which means that writing requires…
Category: Spain: University of Oviedo
Am I Fluent Yet?
After being in Spain for almost two months, I think to myself I must be close to being fluent by now, right? My teachers, host mom, and family told me “after the first month your Spanish will have improved tremendously and you’ll be basically fluent!” Yet I still feel like I have a long way…
Getting Pooped on By a Bird is Good Luck
Have you ever been told that getting pooped on by a bird is good luck? Well, I’ve only ever heard that one time before, ironically by someone who had just gotten pooped on. Coincidence? I’m choosing not to look that far into it because it happened in one of my new favorite places on earth….
Time is passing so quickly!
Wow, I had only been here two weeks last time I posted, and now I’ve been here for almost two months. I really don’t know how that’s possible. It seems like I’ve been here half that time, at most. I’m trying to enjoy every second of this experience! Here’s some copies and pastes from my…
The Weekend from Hell
You know that old saying ‘when life gives you lemons, make lemonade?’ Well in my experience life will sometimes give you lemons, sometimes it even gives you a freshly squeezed lemonade with a little umbrella straw, and then sometimes it gives you rocks instead of lemons and instead of handing them to you, it throws…
One Month Already?! ¡Dios mío!
5 weeks in and I feel like I just got here. These five weeks have been filled of adjustment. From adjusting to the time change, living with a new family, the food, the eating schedule, the culture, and the language, I now sometimes forget I am in an entirely different country. Getting through the first…
Finding that Happy Place
Mi historia empieza un Jueves. Yo necesitaba unas vacaciones (si, yo se que estoy en España pero todavía las necesitaba) entonces Mary y yo compramos billetes a Santiago de Compostela y La Coruña para el fin de semana. Llegamos a Santiago de Compostela a las 9:00 mas o menos y fuimos al hostel se llama…
Do Blondes Really Have More Fun?
Las rubias se lo pasan mejor? Esta es la cuestión. Para averiguar la verdad, me convertí en una rubia. Bueno, en realidad, no completamente rubia. La parte superior de mi pelo todavía es marrón, pero el resto es oro pálido. Ahora lo se que estas pensando “Pero Shannon acabas de cortar tu pelo, y ahora…
First two weeks in Oviedo…
I can’t believe I’ve already been in Spain for over two weeks! It’s crazy! Here are all the posts I’ve posted on my personal blog since I’ve gotten here, in reverse order. (It’s a bit of a novela.) You can click the headings to read the posts on my blog. Also, you can click here…
¡Hola! Bienvenidos a Oviedo, España conmigo.
Hola a todos! My name is Catey McCray and I am a second year student at Rollins. We were having some issues getting my account set up, typical, but I am excited to finally upload some insight into my trip! Much of the before consisted of packing up the things you would usually bring with…