Hola

Due to my mother's relentless request, I’ve decided to log some of my European travel experiences while in Salamanca, Spain for the spring 2011 semester.  Tomorrow is March 1 and I’ve been abroad since January 7, so it’s a bit late, yet completely appropriate because I am operating on "Spanish time.”  I don’t like cameras or picture-taking and was relying on a photographic memory as my European journal, but I’ve now come to terms with the fact that because my short-term memory is nonexistent, my envisioned mental blog might not be completely functional.  I've also realized how beneficial my camera is because now I don't have to explain to anyone what I've been doing in words.  Chao.