adios!

Today is my last day in Bilbao and it looks like I'm going to be eating all day. Lunch is in a few hours and then the university is having a closing ceremony where there is bound to be food and wine and then we are having a huge goodbye dinner at home and then I'm leaving on a bus to Madrid. I finished my last finals yesterday and celebrated with a pastry that Renner and I call a chocolate butt...because it is literally the shape of a butt...gonna miss those things! Last night my host mom gave me a necklace as a goodbye gift and the charm on it is the sidewalk pattern in the city. She's the best. It's been a great semester here in Spain but I'm definitely ready to go back home to my family, friends, and pets too although I know I will miss it here. Again, I wish I could write something expressing my gratitude for my time here and everything but I really just don't know what to say...all I can say for now is adios España, gracias por todo, and I'll be back home so so soon! Oh and adios to my blog too!

one week

I told my host mom the first thing I want to eat when I go back to the states is buffalo wings...so what does she do?...goes out and buys wings for me to eat for lunch the next day. This woman is entirely too sweet.
Things are really winding down now, only one more week here! Ahh! Classes ended today and final exams are on Monday and Tuesday and thats basically it. It seems like I just got here!
I feel obligated to write an inspirational post about everything I've learned here buuuuutttt I really don't know what to say... that sounds really bad. I've learned so much about myself, about Spain, about people in general but I think I need to be away from it all to really put it in perspective and put it all into words. I've been told to prepare for an even bigger culture shock coming home. So I'm preparing. One suitcase packed! Hopefully all my stuff fits in the other one!
See you all in a week!

supermoon!

In accordance with my last post, my host mom fed me tripe. It was gross. Probably the only food I haven't liked since I've been here. And I've been here for four months. The countdown is really on now. Only twelve more days...11 sleeps though since I'm leaving at 1:30 am to get to Madrid for my 8 am flight. Its hard to believe its gone so fast and as happy as I am to be coming soon I know I'm going to miss this place.
We had our last ISA excursion to Burgos yesterday, a medieval city two hours southeast of Bilbao. We went to a museum of human evolution that is home to a bunch of bones found in caves in northern Spain that were occupied for thousands of years. Apparently they are the oldest European remains. The rest of the day was spent (in the rain ironically because it was sunny in Bilbao) touring the giant cathedral and sampling the cities delicacies such as morcilla (type of sausage) and chocolate.
Look for the moon tonight! It's gonna be the biggest moon of the year! Supermoon! And you have to do like the Bon does, open your wallet, hold it up to the moon and say, give me money give me money give me money! And some unexpected money will come your way!