A successful visit from the homeland was completed this past tuesday. Liz and I got to relive the days of braces, car tag, the gravel pits, wazee, summers in the dirty, harry potter, 2005, brice and chunny. We were also able to create a few more memories in what I like to call "chunny brices do Madrid '09." Her visit started with the typical becky tour. A trip to Maoz for falafel, a walk to Plaza Mayor, a prance down to the Palacio Real and a stroll up...

Cliche alert: People say studying abroad is one of the most life changing things a person can do. Well, this cliche statement became all too true for me over the past week. (Although, I still like to believe I'm the same, simple, small-town Becky) I've seen the most beautiful coasts of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas. I've lived in a Spanish home, searched for and rented my own apartment, opened a Spanish bank account and could now navigate public...

Well, this is just unfortunate. The aspiring journalist can't even keep up with her own blog! Here I am two trips past Semana Santa, and I haven't even blogged about Egypt yet. Here's a quick update before I back track. I spent this past weekend in Portugal and the previous in Cordoba. (blogs and photos to come) I was accepted into the Magazine Class for next fall, application only and very competitive. (Makes me want to take back my comments about me being an ...

Well today is April Fools, but the Spanish do not celebrate such a silly holiday. So I had to rely on the Badger Herald's satirical publication, The Dirty Bird, to get me through. Each year on April 1, the BH publishes The Dirty Bird as a satire of our other campus paper. I have to say, my friends did quite the job and provided me with yet another public laugh. On another quick journalistic note, I stumbled upon this today: http://www.stuffjournalistslike.com -...

question: (n.) a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply. The two questions that appeared on my Literature midterm this afternoon: 1. Poesía de Frederico García Lorca. 2. Comentar en estos textos: -(a passage from Bodas de sangre) -(a passage from Árbol de la ciencia) The first is actually a statement... wait, no... a phrase. The second had some direction considering we were given the text, but serious...