this is my tribute to santiago de compostela! i leave on wednesday for barcelona, but have loved my two months here in galicia!  

this is an horreo, a shed for holding food and grain above the ground away from rodents! spaniards used to use them quite often. i thought since i lived on a street named horreo, why not blog about it? 

butresses at the cathedral de sar. they are meant for structural support, but i think, "picture moment!" 

view of the university from the alemeda. no university would be complete without a statue of some man holding a book. anybody know who this guy is? 

the holy door at the cathedral.  

keeping with the theme of family, here are the parental units at a german restaurant in nashville...do i need to mention that it says "go titans" in the background?! are we proud or what?! haha 

i don't know that i have ever posted any pictures of my crazy sisters, but here they are from a pic they sent me last week. jo is on the left and sarah is on the right...yeah for sisters! 

This is my dad tribute! Saturday here was Father's Day in Spain, so I am officially two days late saying, "Feliz Dia del Padre"! (or however you say it in Spanish!! :) I love you dad!  

retiro 

retiro park in madrid...could i put up a tent and live there? 

here is my crazy roomie, Angela! is this a bk coimmercial? 

here is jonas. did i scare him or something?! haha...it must have been the crazy hair!...i don't blame him. :) 

our cathedral from the inside 

the church at sar....nearby..i went yesterday with my academia.  

here i am at bk in spain...sad huh?! i just wanted a little greasy taste of home! :) 

friends from madrid 

friends from madrid! 

here is more of the typical cusine...pulpo (octopus) and hard cheese 

the two marias here in the park. it is a popular meeting place...they were desiged by a local artist after two actual ladies that sat in the park each morning....when do i get my statue?!...haha 

here is the eye at the top of the sanctuary...it symbolizes the eye of God watching over us 

here are my lovely friends, caleb and lindsey on sunday morning...we took some friends from madrid around the city...good times! 

here i am at noia (is that how you spell it?!) i'm not sure what i am doing...showing your the beack or trying to fly?!  

here are some friends and i at the beach on saturday...wow...sunset in spain at the beach...does it get better?!  

here is my amazing dog oreo...i just missed him today so this is my tribute! 

Bald Computer

Well....it is offical!....I have a bald computer! After all the sickness that my computer has had, a friend today helped me fix it, but in the process, we had to erase all my hard drive...*GULP*...goodbye about a bizillion pictures that I hadn't thought to save soemwhere else...errr...I guess that will teach me to be more of a picture pack rat! Well since I don't have the option of sending pictures at the moment (maybe soon) I will give you some word pictures about life here in Spain...here goes... *Seemingly dozens of panaderias and cafes (coffee houses) are on every corner and somehow they all seem to stay in business...haha..probably because they all beckon for me to enter... "Eva...come in!!!...get a tarta de manzanas or a coffee...don't think about the calories!!"...and trust me I go! :) *REALLY short bangs are in here...i have a recent hairtrim to prove it...even though I am trying to grow out my hair, the hairdresser thought it was important to cut the left half of my bangs substantially shorter...mmm...flashbacks to childhood when I found mom's tijeras (i can't remember how to spell the word in english at the moment!....errr) *It is always a good time anytime of the day to meet a friend for coffee...anytime, anywhere...my kind of palce, huh?! *EVERYONE here is wearing a scarf..the men, the women, the kids....and they all look so stylish! Spaniards really put effort into their appearance...hmmmm...I'm going to get schooled in fashion! Watch out Nashville in a couple of years! haha.. (just kidding.) *The Alameda, the park here that I run in, actually looks more like a zoo...dozens of people take paseos through the park (I have to dodge them) and just as many dogs are there with their owners (some of them are shitzus!!)...I also have noticed the many hundreds of pigeons there in the center of the park....yesterday I actually had a duck as a large swoop of them circled above my head thanks to the nearby precious child that was feeding the pigeons!...haha.. OH-k...enough of the random ramblings of my mind for now! Chao!