I know, I know

it's been a long time since I have posted.  Just been with busy with school and everything.  But it is official.  I will be studying/living in Bilbao, Spain in July.  It's in the Northern Coast, and it literally neighbors France.  I leave June 24th and I fly from Chicago to Dublin, Ireland.  I have a quite long layover but I figured in that time I can go out and sight see.  Or if I can't sleep on the plane maybe I could find a place and have a little nap, play around on my laptop we will see. Then I fly to Madrid from Dublin.  Now I am going to be there 3 days earlier than I am supposed to.  I don't meet up with my group and other people until the 28th.  I haven't planned it yet but I'll probably book a hotel room and sight see for a few days.  Then I go to Bilbao in July and then I am there and I return home July 30th.  I decided to live in the residence halls because I figured I would be more comfortable.  I am definitely excited to attend class there and see how it is and how they learn over there.  I also plan to travel a lot especially to Barcelona because I didn't get a chance to get there in high school and probably back to Granada because I loved it there when I visited!  I also would love to travel to France and/or Portugal.  That would be so amazing.  I'm really excited for this trip however I can't get too excited yet because I do have to finish out the semester first.  But once it's over in about two weeks, preparing for Spain is definitely really going to take off.  I have to get some things, call the bank, schedule appointments to make sure I'm up to date on vaccines and nice and healthy.  Figure out how and what to pack so I make the amount that you are allowed to have.  Anyone have any travel tips?  I will probably update through here and upload pictures or maybe send out a mass email?  I haven't decided yet.  But I will have my laptop and the University of Deusto does have wireless and the residence halls have a computer room so I will have access to the Internet.  But I have a catch, I don't want to be the only one sending updates! I'm going to be out of the loop for a month, I want everyone to send me updates about their lives!  Deal?