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Well it's been quite some time since I've posted anything with some content and I wanted to touch base and just comment on some of the great things Sevilla has given me and how times have been. First I want to just comment on how much walking we do here. I've quickly realized in some rather ridiculous ways how little we walk in the US. Shoes i love in the US just wouldn't work, or wouldn't last longer than two weeks here. I literally spend entire afternoons just walking around, one of my favorite ways to take in Sevilla. Especially now that the naranjos (orange trees) are starting to blossom, and I can only relate it to walking through fields of lilacs. Seeing all the people out, taking in the good weather. The good energy just fills the streets to where you can almost feel it brush against your skin.

A partial result of the increased amount of walking, I've quickly realized the genuine art of talking and conversing. As everyone who knows me know knows, talking and being engaged in a conversation has never been a problem I've had, but I've realized how stinted our society has become. Just like newspapers we're drifting towards a society of excerpts, filling content into tiny margins, and trimming the excess. The excess is the value though, and it can't be trimmed any more than a tree's roots, it gives the foundation to the idea. That being said I've really come to appreciate the nuances of shorter hour long conversations to those that span an entire day. Enjoying those quiet pauses, the simultaneous reactivation of conversation, the extreme over-discussion of points that are often too easily thrown aside as invaluable. Either way, it's simple something that when you spend an hour walking back from school with someone, you can really talk, something some of us, myself included, sometimes forget when we live such a A to B to C live.

In other more informative news, that is to say of a less pensive nature, Sevilla is going well. It's recently become quite official that a couple friends and I will be living in Spain for the entire summer. There's just too much to fit into four months and as I've probably said one too many times to my friends here, these first four months were amazing and I feel like i've seen Spain, but now it's time to get to know it. While this is my first real venture out of the US to go live somewhere else on my own, I feel that I've grown quite attached to the whole experience. Sevilla is no longer just a town, or a foreign city, or even a chaotic mess, it's growing to have it's own sort of organized form that is an integral part of my life. While this summer we will certainly not be living in Sevilla for all or even potentially any time, Spain has certainly a distinct vibe, and getting to know it will be an invaluable experience. A phrase i hold close to heart, if you do what you want to be doing, or even what you know you should be doing, everything else will fall into place.

The month of March has been great in Sevilla. Lots of wonderful weather, lots of good times, already lots of birthdays and more to come. April is coming upon us quickly which will be a month full of traveling, new experiences and then for the most part our pogram is close to coming to an end. Today or yesterday marked the halfway point, and it's sad to think that for those who are leaving at the end of the pogram, life will just pick back up where it left off. Nonetheless we all have been able to maintain an attitude that we need to be here while we can be, and worry about not being here when we're not. I've made a plethora of close friends of all degrees here, and hopefully our experiences here will keep us close for much more time to come.

I'll keep you all posted on things as they develop, as of now no traveling this month, no particularly interesting news for the masses, but I look forward to hearing from all of you, if anyone is coming to Spain in the next couple months look me up and we'll be sure to meet up and have a great time.

Hasta luego!