(Forgot to include a map in the last post...)
I also forgot to write...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Lisboa, Portugal [Part 2]
DAY 3 (SUNDAY): destination: Belem.
(Forgot to include a map in the last post...)
I also forgot to write...
(Forgot to include a map in the last post...)
I also forgot to write...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Lisboa, Portugal [part 1]
Ahh! So much to fill you all on! This is because of procrastination.
It's going to be a little less prosaic than my other posts (mainly because I want to cover the Portugal trip quickly and tell you guys about my Spring Break.)
It's going to be a little less prosaic than my other posts (mainly because I want to cover the Portugal trip quickly and tell you guys about my Spring Break.)
Monday, April 9, 2012
Happy Easter Monday?
I'm back in Madrid everyone! :)
Spring break was so much fun (and burned that big of a hole in my bank account >.<), and I think overall, it was just nice to be with familiar faces. Updates on my trip will have to happen at a later date, but hope everyone had a great Easter!!
A random note though, here in Europe, they celebrate Easter Monday. What is this? Almost everyone has the day off, but never in my life have I heard Easter Monday being observed...
Spring break was so much fun (and burned that big of a hole in my bank account >.<), and I think overall, it was just nice to be with familiar faces. Updates on my trip will have to happen at a later date, but hope everyone had a great Easter!!
A random note though, here in Europe, they celebrate Easter Monday. What is this? Almost everyone has the day off, but never in my life have I heard Easter Monday being observed...
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Happy Easter
Happy Easter from Angela in London (for the weekend) to the rest of the world who happen to read this blog! :)
It is finished, Christ is risen, the old has gone, the new has come! The good news is the Kingdom of Heaven is on this Earth.
**If you want more information on what is Easter for Christians, I would like to direct you to any of the four gospels in the Bible. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. I am no expert, but John may be a good place for you to start.**
It is finished, Christ is risen, the old has gone, the new has come! The good news is the Kingdom of Heaven is on this Earth.
**If you want more information on what is Easter for Christians, I would like to direct you to any of the four gospels in the Bible. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. I am no expert, but John may be a good place for you to start.**
Friday, March 30, 2012
Daily Life: Wednesdays
Wednesdays are the best.
My Wednesdays provide room for me to recuperate from my crazy Mondays and Tuesdays because I have no classes on Wednesdays!!
How luxurious is that?! Never will I have this schedule again in my life. :( But just because the day is technically free of activities doesn't mean it lacks structure.
Although I am not a morning person, I sincerely would like to be, and so I try and not to wake up too late (meaning after 10). And to help prevent me from sleeping all day, usually Wednesday mornings I meet up with Jaime, my intercambio at a cafe or something and have a nice conversation in Spanish and English over a cup of café con leche (durrh). After an hour an half or two hours of conversing, we catch the same bus, and I get off by the International Institute of Madrid where the BU program is headquartered at. Either I have some businesses to take care of at the BU office, or I hop on the Metro from there and go home.
Once home, I try to go for a very LITTLE run in the park near my house, come back home (take the stairs up to the 11th floor to try and compensate for the fact that I barely ran at all), take a shower (because after going up 11 floors, one is out of breath and slightly sweaty), and then time for lunch (what a counterproductive system)! Haha
Afterwards, I take a little siesta, get some homework done, or watch some TV, and then around 4 or 5, I head out to Kilometro-0 in La Puerta del Sol, where there is a prayer room for this ministry called Kilómetrocero. The ministry is basically a street-evangelizing ministry, and people every day go out into a concentrated area of a city, stand on a red box and share their testimony. The prayer is so awesome, and I got to meet some really cool people through this place.
I've been having a hard time having my one-on-one time with God at home, so I decided one week on a whim to go and be alone with God. Like a mini-retreat. Since then, I try and go at least once a week to have a longer time with God.
After a couple of hours of being there, I head back home and eat dinner, etc. etc., with the only exciting thing left for the night is videochatting with lovely people back in the States.
My Wednesdays provide room for me to recuperate from my crazy Mondays and Tuesdays because I have no classes on Wednesdays!!
How luxurious is that?! Never will I have this schedule again in my life. :( But just because the day is technically free of activities doesn't mean it lacks structure.
Although I am not a morning person, I sincerely would like to be, and so I try and not to wake up too late (meaning after 10). And to help prevent me from sleeping all day, usually Wednesday mornings I meet up with Jaime, my intercambio at a cafe or something and have a nice conversation in Spanish and English over a cup of café con leche (durrh). After an hour an half or two hours of conversing, we catch the same bus, and I get off by the International Institute of Madrid where the BU program is headquartered at. Either I have some businesses to take care of at the BU office, or I hop on the Metro from there and go home.
Once home, I try to go for a very LITTLE run in the park near my house, come back home (take the stairs up to the 11th floor to try and compensate for the fact that I barely ran at all), take a shower (because after going up 11 floors, one is out of breath and slightly sweaty), and then time for lunch (what a counterproductive system)! Haha
Afterwards, I take a little siesta, get some homework done, or watch some TV, and then around 4 or 5, I head out to Kilometro-0 in La Puerta del Sol, where there is a prayer room for this ministry called Kilómetrocero. The ministry is basically a street-evangelizing ministry, and people every day go out into a concentrated area of a city, stand on a red box and share their testimony. The prayer is so awesome, and I got to meet some really cool people through this place.
I've been having a hard time having my one-on-one time with God at home, so I decided one week on a whim to go and be alone with God. Like a mini-retreat. Since then, I try and go at least once a week to have a longer time with God.
After a couple of hours of being there, I head back home and eat dinner, etc. etc., with the only exciting thing left for the night is videochatting with lovely people back in the States.
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