jueves, 5 de junio de 2008

Adiós Granada

My friends and roommates starting from the right (roommate- Medi, Louise, roommate - Moha, Sarah, some random Moroccan, and in the front my roommate Rashid.

Tomorrow is my last full day in Granada. I feel kind of weird, happy, sad, excited to travel, and excited to come home. I feel like I have spent my time well here but I still feel like every day I find something new or meet a new person, learn a new Spanish word, or some crazy Moroccan thing and that makes me sad to leave. Like for example, I recently discovered an amazing curry kebab place that I love and had probably walked by a million times with out thinking about it until someone told me about it. And in the last few weeks I have met some new people and now it´s sad that I have to go with out really getting to know them more. But no complaints, Granada has been good to me and this last year has been amazing.

I finalized my travel plans this last week and I am really excited to get along and see some new places. I start in Italy in Cinque Terre and from there I am going to visit my family again. No worries, this time they know that I am coming and I think we might be going to their house that is on an island, at least that is what I got from attempting to understand an email in Italian. From Italy I am taking a ferry to Croatia and I will be spending about two weeks there which I have been looking forward to since I got here. Then I have a few days in Slovenia, then off to Hungary (Budapest), then I have about a week in the Czech Republic, and a week in Poland. I wanted to go to Greece but it was to expensive so I decided to go back to Poland because I loved it so much last time. I will be returning to Krakow, but this time I have some other cities on the agenda. Then from Poland I am flying to Frankfurt, Germany to go visit my friend Sarah who will be in Heidelberg and finally from there back to Spain where I will be visiting Santiago de Compostela and Salamanca before I come back to Granada and por fin CHICAGO! That is a mouth full but that is about the gist of my next two months.

I´ll be trying to keep updates while I am traveling so keep reading and expect some pictures.

I am going to try to get all of my things ready tonight so that I can just relax and walk around Granada a bit. I will be coming back here at the end of July before I come home but I still feel like tomorrow is my last day forever.