Some Recollections and Observations

I work at a coffee shop.

I'm an intern with the Obama campaign. I work 16 hours a day for minimal pay, but the perks are terrific. For example, chilling with Bar...

Well, I'm back in America. It's been quite an adventure, Spain!

I was speaking last night to a Spaniard about upcoming elections in Spain and the United States. I thought some of what he said was interest...

Christmas Adventures

Before I get to my Christmas adventures, I should mention an interesting experience I had shortly beforehand. Just outside of Madrid there i...

Here are some old pictures to look at while I wrap up my Christmas adventure. Autumn at the University Weekend in Cordoba

To those of you who have been pushing for something to be posted here (Mom), it's taking me a little longer than I expected to record my...

It's been a very long two weeks. I'm back in Madrid from my marathon tour of Europe. I've got just over a thousand photographs t...

Internet is finally working again. Here's something I wrote last week: Last weekend my program took us all on a trip to southern Spain, ...

Friday was another national holiday, so today concludes the second long weekend in the past two weeks. Normally I would find this delightful...

Barcelona Weekend I apologize for the low resolution of some of these photos. The Internet refused to function for anything but the lowest s...

Thursday was All Saint’s Day, and as Spain is a Catholic country we had the day off. Generally a Thursday off also means that Friday will be...

My latest adventure involves volunteering with the English Department here at the university. My responsibility is to co-lead an hour-long p...

Here are a couple photographs of where I live in  Madrid. This is my apartment building. I live on the first floor, back on on the courtyard...

Weekend in Portugal

Sunday in Madrid

Friday was Columbus Day in Spain, so we had a long weekend. If I had stayed in Madrid I could have seen a military parade featuring the king...

The building which houses most of my classes. We American students all got here a month before classes in the Universidad Complutense de Mad...

One of David's many summer homes here in Spain, I assume. Happy birthday, then.