So it's been a while...

And really…it’s just that whenever I sit down to write one of these things it’s cuz I’m bored and when I’m bored I tend to view everything as boring so these posts become long ramblings that, believe me, nobody would want to read nor would I want them to read lest they think me a terrible bore.

But here I am…only semi-bored as I’ve just woken up in the darkness and rain so there’s not much to do outside and if I don’t write this now I fear it will simply never get written.

So it’s been 6months and 2 days since the last time I’ve seen anyone from home…and..well a few days more than that since I’ve seen anyone but Madi my Mom Dad and Dan. Anyone miss me yet? Well I know my mom does at least as she was notably upset at me when I announced that I wouldn’t be returning until August 1^st…but hey, I’m in Europe and don’t know when I’ll be back so I’ve got to take advantage of the opportunity to see as much as possible!

Anywho…in the last few weeks a lot has happened. To those of you who don’t know, I’ve just moved from Burgos (2hrs N. of Madrid) to Cádiz which is on the southern tip of the peninsula. The city is an interesting and historic place seeing as over 3000 years have passed since it was first settled. The City is the Capitol of the province by the same name and is situated on what would be an island but for an extremely narrow strip of land that connects it to mainland Spain.

The city prides itself on the fact that the 1812 constitution was written here and that this was the birthplace of resistance to the Bonaparte occupation of Spain. In that sense it has a relationship to Spain correlative to that of Philadelphia and the United States.

Beyond that they are really quite as vulgar here as in the rest of Spain though I feel like they just don´t see the way they speak as vulgar. What I mean by this is that, unlike in the North, where swears were used as expletives, here they´re just a common part of speech. And it´s not really that they´re even swearing…they just use certain parts of the human anatomy frequently in common speech. I will not elaborate further as I´m not entirely sure who, if anyone, is in my audience but really, if you use your imagination a little I´m sure you can get an idea of what I´m saying. Oh and one further thing, they use these words instead of ¨dude¨ or ¨girlfriend¨ or whatnot, so I don´t know…it´s just a bit odd for an outsider be they Spanish, Latin American, or anyone else.