Nerja!

First of all, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!! if you read this, Dad, I love you and I'm thinkin of you!

Second of all, as of today I have officially been in Spain for a month. WHOOP! It's been amazing, and I can't believe it's ONLY been a month. So much has happened, and I've already learned so much! It's great!!

Now on to what I've been up to. This weekend I went to Nerja with three other girls from my program. It's a little town on the southern edge of Spain, about an hour east of Malaga. It was SUCH a beautiful town! Pretty small, with beautiful beaches and incredible cliffs plunging down into the Mediterranean. This girl from Kansas was overwhelmed by the simultaneous presence of two things that she is not used to - water AND mountains. I couldn't hardly get over it! Let's just say I've got LOTS of pictures! (oh, here's one now! notice the mountains and water all together like that... wow! ) The only downside to this adorable little beach town was the lack of SPANISH. I literally heard more people speaking English (although usually with a British or sometimes Australian accent) than Spanish while I was there - for the first time in a month I asked for the check, in English. It was strange. If it were a Spanish
little town, it would hands-down be my favorite city in Spain. But alas, it felt like a little bit of England (we would have gone to Gibraltar if that's what we had wanted!). But oh it was still a wonderful trip and we all had a great time.
Ok I'm out of stuff to say. Goodnight.

PS My roommate Emily says hi.