well hello there...


to say I've been mia would be an understatement... life has a way of getting in the way.

long story short, you all know i grad'd.  (re: previous post, duh).

what you dont know is that i got into to medical school. and I'm returning to spain.  in less than two weeks. !!!!!!!!!

unfortunately, (or fortunately) i enjoyed my last few weeks in espana 2013 so much that i haven't been able to share over half my fotos and footage.  so I'm going to attempt to do just that in these two weeks AND plan to stay way more on top of it this time around.

(this is the part where i think about how cool it will be that my daughter or son can read this someday, before reality checks in and i remember the internet will probably so totally out by the time that rolls around...)

FUSION.





im having a meltdown.  well maybe just a minor one. but still.

as we say here at mcat camp, im fusing with... well, life.


picture it. casual study break. hands shaking from applying exorbitant amounts of force over the small point of my pen.

last night, i walked out of target after stocking up on more whiteout and caffeine to a beautiful sliver of a moon, pillowed by an intensely dark azul sky above the rugged charcoal outline of the mountains. or flatirons. or whatever we have here in boulder.

it was amazing.  its so unbelievably beautiful here that i forget about running out of breath every time i spring back to the dorms for a forgotten one thing or another.  it (between cartwheels, expertly symphonized tripods to headstands, and yoga) has kept me grounded, kept me from tearing out my head and going crazy in this complete immersion into la la Q = mcΔt land.

i mean thats an over exaggeration, right? Right.

but one little study break to browse through still unedited photos of the awakening of my little pomegranate dream and im back in my first bought of abroadsickness since graduation.

should i give myself a break? its only been a little over a month.  part of me feels like an incubating fetus ripped out of everything nourishing into the real world.  where i dont have a job, experience, or any type of useful skill to offer the world.

my spanish skillz have been replaced by the parabolic function of gravity, the corporative binding of oxygen to hemoglobin... is it oxygen?

i want to go back to go back to europe. i want to be able to steep in spanish language culture and come out more wrinkled than a raisin (did you know that wrinkling is due to the increase of water in the tissue? aka osmosis? the wrinkling is an evolutionary advantage... wrinkles = grip), spewing spanish as fluently as my own stream of thoughts. since my english doesnt make sense when it trickles out, i may have set an unreachable bar.

never in my life have i realized that my goal in life is on its way to be realized every day.  that i would take every single day of this hyperventilating-producing program over a few more minutes back in spain.

theyre both pieces to the puzzle.  but that's it, theyre just pieces.  they are pieces i found, to which i will soon master the correct geographical location and have them fit right in with all the other threads of my life.

man, life is a journey. its an overtired analogy but its just so truthful.

i may not have chosen the path laid out with cement, or maybe i did.  either way, slow and steady keeps me in line.

THE TRIP OF A THOUSAND MILES...

Sorry I've been pretty MIA... Here's something to keep you entertained!



DAY 60: MAROC; FES.


Come spend a day with me in the Medina of Fes... 

Starting with the food stalls, moving past the rug man, the joya souks, the tannery (garden city times infinite), and ending at the potter's...

DAYS 59-64: MOROCCO.


Coming soon to a computer near you...

DAY 47: NERJA.

And now... because I've heard a million and one complaints that there aren't any photos of me on this blog (MOM)... I present a million and one unedited photos of me (mostly) in Nerja way back in the beginning on March.

DAY 37: ITALIA; TUSCAN COUNTRYSIDE.



DAY 67: ALMUÑECAR.


DAY 46: LA ALPUJARRA.


have you ever wondered what its like to live in the clouds?  well i can tell you: its cold, rainy, and wet.

DAY 37: ANT SIZED TUSCANY.

Macro shots of the Tuscany countryside...


SORRY...

...ive been mia lately.

tea (or cafe) hour with mati and sarah a few weeks ago.

lots going on. after italy....la alpujarra, nerja, moroc, dad and beth time, almuñecar, nerja, granada, class.....

ITALIA; IN MOTION.

DAY 33: CÓRDOBA; LA MEZQUITA-CATEDRAL DE CÓRDOBA.


DAY 33: CÓRDOBA; THE CITY.

What a beautiful city. The mix of Roman, Moorish, and [Catholic] Spanish influence here and all of Andalucia is beautiful and breathtaking.  

America is so new in comparison!


DAY 33: CÓRDOBA.

What can I say about Cordoba?

rows and rows of columns and arches in the catedral.

DAY 31: SEVILLE; ALCÁZAR.

The Reales Alcázares de Seville started out as a Moorish fort, but currently is the oldest royal palace still in use in Europe today.