Coming Up...

Well, well, well, look who's back (and by that I mean me)!

I am very sorry I have not written in the past two weeks, however things have just been pretty normal. Lately there has been a lot of planning for the time to come and I cannot wait to share the experiences with you all, I just have to, ya know, live them first!

Well first of all March 19th marks 100 days left here in Spain... didn't see that one coming!

Then a few weeks after that, April 12th, starts spring break and there will literally not be one second wasted there. At 6:25 AM on Saturday morning my friend Victoria and I are off to the airport to fly to Santiago, Spain which is on the complete opposite side of Spain to then catch two different trains and finally meet up with come other AFSers there, roughly 40 of them, to quite literally backpack across Spain.

This backpacking experience is known here as El Camino de Santiago. It is one of the only three Christian Pilgrimage walks in the world and people from ALL over the world come to do it together! Now I do happen to be Christian, however most of the exchange students, myself included, are doing the trip solely for the experience. 

It is a pretty intense walk if I do say so myself! It is four days long (well it's longer than that but the AFS crew is only doing four days worth) and we are to walk approximately 27 km a day, which is about 17 miles a day. Then each night we will be crashing at a hostel. I am sure I am under estimating what I am in for, but hey I have to live these moments while I can!

Wednesday night we return to Barcelona at about midnight... so maybe that makes it Thursday morning? Anyway I have all of one day to rest up, then the family and I are off to Valencia from Thursday - Sunday!

Fast forward to April 30th and I am off to Milan, Italy. There I am going to reunite / meet my Italian relatives! My cousin Daniela lives in Milan so we are going sight seeing around there for a day or so and then we are traveling to Trento, Italy to meet up with the rest of the gang. I am beyond thrilled to be able to finally visit them there and I am equally excited, to say the least, to try the FOOD! 

So that is what is going to be happening in the life of Emily Thompson in the near future! Can't wait to tell you all about it! Happy March everybody!