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Feria in Sevilla!

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Welcome Back, I am back to another blog. Over the past week I have truly been taking in the Spanish culture and enjoying my favorite week in Sevilla yet. I have been at FERIA all week enjoying all the different attractions. Studying abroad in Sevilla during the spring gives all students the opportunity to enjoy Semana Santa and Feria, which I highly recommend all students to attend both. You truly get to experience the Spanish culture and history at both events. A couple blogs ago I talked about Semana Santa, and during this blog ill talk about Feria. Feria, what is it? Feria is basically a version of a giant state fair. All day and all week long you can attend Feria and have a great time. Feria is truly unique to Spain and is something you must experience as it is kind of hard to describe. But I'll give you a brief summary. When going to Feria you can go anytime throughout the afternoon and just go walk the streets that are lined up with beautiful casetas (tents) that are both pri
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Food in Espana

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Hola Amigos,  FOOD! FOOD! and more FOOD! Yes, I am back with another blog focusing on some of the famous Spanish cuisine. I have been eating this food ever since I have arrived in Seville. Literally everyday I eat so much food and try so many different types of food I am impressed by how much I am able to eat. Coming from the states as an athlete in college I was use to having to eat a lot of food, but I was a very picky eater. I stuck to a pretty strict diet of chicken, rice, a couple of veggies and fruits, bagels, oatmeal, pasta, pizza, greek yogurt, and PB&J's. Now every once in a while I would switch somethings up but for the most part that was my diet throughout college. I was picky I did not like certain types of vegetables or fruits, I disliked fish, and didn't like eggs. I would say these three things are eaten a lot here in Spain, so I thought I was going to struggle to eat. But that was not the case, I absolutely love Spanish food and I eat so much of it. I am abl
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An eventful Semaña Santa in Sevilla

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Hello y'all, Welcome back to another installment of my blogging. Today I'll be giving you a brief overview of the wonderful celebration of Semaña Santa (Holy Week) in Seville. This is a week long celebration of Easter. What a great event it was to experience, and I am so happy I decided not to travel. When I first saw my schedule of coming to Seville, and saw that all my classes would be cancelled the week of April 3rd - April 7th I thought to myself, "why not spend this time traveling around Europe." But after talking with some coworkers and locals they suggested I stay and experience the whole week. So I decided to spend the whole last week in Seville, and truly take in the whole adventure of Semaña Santa.   Leading up to the beginning of the week I'll admit I was very scared as everyone I talked to was telling me that millions of people come to the city center and celebrate. Its impossible to get anywhere on time, the crowds are huge, and its hot. Personally, I
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Weekend in Jaén

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 Hello everyone, I am back with another blog. This one will be focusing on my first trip throughout Spain by myself. What a wonderful experience and confidence builder it was as it taught me so much about, "ME." Earlier this week I went on Renfe, and book a train ticket from Seville to Jaén. I wanted to go visit my friend from college back in Wisconsin, and he currently lives in Jaén as he is teaching English to Spanish students. So Thursday night I packed up my bag and made the venture to Jaén on Friday morning. My train was bright and early on Friday morning. But getting to the train station was my first challenge of the weekend because I did not want to walk 45 minutes to the train station at 6:30 in the morning. So I hopped on my phone and called a cab through Cabify, which is an app that is similar to Uber. This was a challenge because of my language barrier but I overcame that challenge and made it to the train station in time to catch my train. During my three hour rid
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BETIS & MOROCCO

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 Welcome back yawl, What a wonderful week I had. This weekend was definitely my favorite weekend abroad by far. First off my week started off great by having fun at my internship and learning a lot in my classes. For those that don't know the school week through SAIIE abroad is only Monday through Thursday, which is awesome because after work on Thursday my weekend officially began.  At the conclusion of work I rushed home and headed to a Betis game. Betis is a professional soccer team in Seville, and three friends and I got to experience an Europa league game which was awesome. The atmosphere in Betis stadium was absolutely electric, and I can't thank Stuart and Samantha for hooking us up with the best seats. Below you can see some pictures of us cheering on Betis. Friday morning we woke up bright and early and headed for the airport to fly to Morocco. We headed to Morocco for three days to travel through four cities and explore Africa. Everything went smoothly on the flight t
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Weekending in Seville!

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Hola Chicos, Welcome back to another weekend in Seville. What a weekend I had. Throughout the week I had no major plans for the weekend was just going to spend sometime exploring different parts of Triana, and the Centre of Seville. But the weekend hit and different things arose. I swear every week and weekend there is something different going on in Seville. Throughout the week I had my typical schedule of both school and work, which was good. My classes are going great as I am learning both about tourism businesses and improving my Spanish substantially. While at work the day is never the same, which is why I am really enjoying interning at Mueso del Baile Flamenco. Also early in the week I got to experience some very good local Spanish tapas with Stuart and Will, which was a good time. Then on Wednesday when I was walking home from class I got to see a parade/march take place for international women's day. This was cool to see all the women involved in the active. That is just a
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SAIIE Included Day Trip to Cordoba

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 Hello y'all, Welcome back to my study abroad blog! This past Friday I got the opportunity to go on an day trip with the SAIIE program that included going to Cordoba with all seven students and our guide Samantha Chipres. Throughout this trip I got to see a bunch of beautiful sights, travel on my first train in Spain, and enjoy some wonderful tapas.  On Friday, we woke up at the crack of dawn in order to catch our first train. This was a very interesting experience because it my was first time riding on a train in Seville. My roommate and I arrived at the train station around 8:10am meeting up with the group. When I first walked into the train station I was surprised because it basically just looked like a mini airport, which was pretty cool to see. After everyone arrived we checked the big billboard to make sure we headed to the correct train. We headed down to the platform to load the train, but when our train arrived we realized we the billboard was wrong and we were waiting for
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