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By Tamika Whitenack Long time, no post! It has been very busy and I am somewhat daunted with how to capture it all in a blog post, so I think you will be getting lists and pictures.  I just returned from a trip to Madrid with my friend. Temperatures climbed above 100 but we very much survived, thanks to a lot of water drinking and strategically timed activities indoors (though tbh, mainly we stayed outside in the sun roughing it haha). Before Madrid, I had a week of fun with the family!! It was lovely to see them and do some sightseeing, and we even had a few days of fun inter-family activity with my host family. I'll put pictures here but I am too lazy to write everything we did, so if you want more details, you can ask them...hehehehe In the two days between my family's departure and my Madrid trip, which were Tuesday and Wednesday, I started a new experience: volunteering at a church-run soup kitchen! I can go for about two hours in the morning for the two morning me...

By Tamika Whitenack Tuesday June 11 rain makes me feel cold lunch: carrots, peanut butter 3 hours group project Wednesday June 12 picnic lunch at park avocado, tomatoes toast, sun, friends, happy gaudi: la pedrera roof, attic, apartment tour nature architect Thursday June 13 group presentation  topic: immigration rights debates with others another picnic more bread and veggies, hummus work? lots of email Friday June 14 last day of class, test! tangent on capitalism that was my essay last day with some friends! la boqueria, ice cream sangria good-bye airport, one backpack two hours flying in the sky eiffel tower, there! Saturday June 15 time with the Js, yay! croissants, baguette, crepes, fruit too spain: oil -> france: butter pretty paris walks  notre dame along the seine luxembourg gardens the louvre! omg statues, paintings, ancient times enormous, great tour a ...