This is just a test...kind of...
This is actually the second blog I have set up. After setting up the first one, I left it alone for about a month. It was marked as a spam blog due to inactivity and by the time I realized this, the grace period to request a review to unlock the blog had expired and the blog was deleted.
I still haven't left yet, although it's getting closer. Right now I don't really know what else to say, because I'm mainly posting an entry so this blog has some activity and doesn't suffer the same fate as my first blog.
For those of you just tuning into my upcoming adventures abroad, here's what's happening:
I will be living with my host family in Alicante, Spain (on the southeastern, Mediterranean coast) for the next 10 months as a Rotary International Youth Exchange Student. The family lives a 2 minute walk from the biggest beach in the city (pop. 350,000) and they enjoy sailing. My host father, Jose, is a photographer and my host mother, Elena, is a surgeon, who works in the biggest hospital in the city, doing plastic surgery in the burn unit. Their younger son, Miguel, 16, is already in New York on his own Rotary Youth exchange. The older son, Luis, 18, is going to the University of Valencia to study aeronautics engineering. Instead of going to high school like I expected, I will be attending the University of Alicante and will also be taking Spanish classes at the Official Language School in Alicante.
Right now, I don't know when I'm leaving, although the travel agent said she's working on getting me out on the 10th or 11th. The only problem is I don't have my visa yet and without that, all other travel plans are meaningless. So I don't know when I'm going, but it's soon. Very soon.
The looming departure is playing havoc with my nerves as I get ready, but more on that later.
-Erik
Currently listening to:
Song: Farewell Ride
Artist: Beck
Album: Guero
This is actually the second blog I have set up. After setting up the first one, I left it alone for about a month. It was marked as a spam blog due to inactivity and by the time I realized this, the grace period to request a review to unlock the blog had expired and the blog was deleted.
I still haven't left yet, although it's getting closer. Right now I don't really know what else to say, because I'm mainly posting an entry so this blog has some activity and doesn't suffer the same fate as my first blog.
For those of you just tuning into my upcoming adventures abroad, here's what's happening:
I will be living with my host family in Alicante, Spain (on the southeastern, Mediterranean coast) for the next 10 months as a Rotary International Youth Exchange Student. The family lives a 2 minute walk from the biggest beach in the city (pop. 350,000) and they enjoy sailing. My host father, Jose, is a photographer and my host mother, Elena, is a surgeon, who works in the biggest hospital in the city, doing plastic surgery in the burn unit. Their younger son, Miguel, 16, is already in New York on his own Rotary Youth exchange. The older son, Luis, 18, is going to the University of Valencia to study aeronautics engineering. Instead of going to high school like I expected, I will be attending the University of Alicante and will also be taking Spanish classes at the Official Language School in Alicante.
Right now, I don't know when I'm leaving, although the travel agent said she's working on getting me out on the 10th or 11th. The only problem is I don't have my visa yet and without that, all other travel plans are meaningless. So I don't know when I'm going, but it's soon. Very soon.
The looming departure is playing havoc with my nerves as I get ready, but more on that later.
-Erik
Currently listening to:
Song: Farewell Ride
Artist: Beck
Album: Guero
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2 comments:
Erik!!!
I have a blogspot too..
its...
whatchrissythinks.blogspot.com
you should...check it out. mhm.
Hey, man. Your right. Its all part of the experience, but your leaving soon. Think of it this way, your not leaving friends behind, your going to meet hundreds of new ones. Your family appears ridiculously rich, so your bound to have fun. Ask to learn to do cool stuff. Im trying to get signed up for diving lessons, with the air tanks and everything. Plus windsurfing is in my near future too. No joke, Having a good family near the beach is about the best deal you can land. Just watch out for that boredom your going to have for the first weeks. Max unfortunately couldn't overcome it and last I checked is home right now. If you ever feel like going home, send me a message. Even I had those urges
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