Semester, Day 1

Hey all!
This weekend my roommate Micah and I will be heading to Faro, Portugal. It sits on the southern coast (our hostal is about 5 blocks from the beach). It should be about 62 and sunny for the whole weekend. It was kind of last minute - we wanted to go to madrid but a round trip bus would be 64 Euros in total, each way taking 6 hours. Faro costs 27 Euros round trip and is a 2 hour bus ride. We don't really know anything about the city, but figured, why not? We also got a hostal for two nights, 12.50 Euros/night/person in our own room, although we share a double bed haha. We're leaving at 2:00 on Friday and leaving Faro at 2:00 on Sunday. Should be a relazxing weekend - we're going to bring a soccer ball to play on the beach.

We are still working on our Semana Santa week-long break trip. Ryanair.com is extremely cheap and we have a great timeline for the trip, but for some reason the site is not functioning and hasn't for about 48 hours. We are getting nervous that things will fill up. Right now, we plan on spending one night in Milan, three nights in Venice, three nights in Slovenia (country northeast of Italy) with some of Micah's friends for free, and then 4 nights on the island of Sardinia in the city of Cagliari. And... I will be missing one days worth of class. Its worth it, right?

The semester started today. My classes went pretty smoothly. I believe that finance will be very easy, as some students haven't ever taken a finance class and this is my fourth. Managing Cultural Diversity should be good - not too difficult either. We have a final project on basically anything based on our experiences here. I'm looking forward to that. History of Spain in Spanish is tough, its hard to understand the professor. It'll improve with time I'm sure. Lastly, Business Spanish (in Spanish) is good and I think that it will be helpful. There is a guy in that class named Austin and he is from Texas and is pursuing a finance major. Whoa.

That's all I got! Adios

Austino