The continous hum of wheels on pavement and the rhythmic movement of wipers on the windshield serve as the soundtrack for the flat, boundless Texas landscape. Big, wide open space and endless sky is what I've become used to these past couple of years.
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| Pictured: Texas in a nutshell |
As I drive to the DFW airport for the beginning of my IRES trip to Spain, I can't help to think about how much life in Valencia will contrast with my current experience.
I hope that this blog will help me illustrate the differences. While it is kind of my homework while doing the program in Spain, I don't necessarily see the blog as a chore. I also see it as a way to communicate my experiences to the people that care about reading it (All three of them. Hello mom!). I also hope to look back 40 years from now and read this blog on the hologram projected from my Samsung Galaxy S34 to refresh my memory on the good (and bad) things about my trip.
A little about the structure of the blog. As I mentioned, I do have assignments I have to publish weekly as part of the sweet, sweet deal that is the IRES program. I will update this blog every Sunday with predetermined topics. You can expect those religiously because hey, I got to go to Spain for next to nothing and writing a blog isn't that much work in exchange (I hope). On top of these I will write at my discretion small blogs describing life and travel in Valencia and elsewhere in Spain. These will be called "Little Brown Book Notes", after the books I use as journals.
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Since I choose when to write these, there might be five or twenty or just two, depending on how interesting Spain really turns out to be and how lazy I get.
I guess that's about it for now. Wish me luck on the long trip.
