This weekend I went to Valencia, a city on the Western Coast of Spain. We left at 6 am on Friday, took a 6 hour bus, and did not arrive in Valencia until 4 pm! I stayed in a hostel with 6 other St. Joe's students and one of our friends from Wake Forest. Our hostel room was possibly the smallest room I've ever seen, we couldn't even walk through the aisle between our bunkbeds! It was still one of the best weekends ever though! We went out Friday night for Valenc...

I can't believe I have already been in Spain for almost 2 weeks! We have done so much already, but there is still so much to see! When I arrived in Madrid on August 31, I was immediatly whisked off onto a school trip to El Escorial. We visited El Monasterio del Escorial, which is a giant monastery and is also where many Spanish kings and queens are buried. We also visited El Valle de Los Caidos, a giant cross on a mountain, which is a memorial to all those wh...