Hola

*A note: I'm posting these first few posts well after the fact because I haven't had regular internet access until now (Weds. Jan. 16).*

Hola

¡Hola a todos! I’m leaving on Sunday, January 6 for a semester studying abroad in Seville, Spain. I’m really excited – I’ve never been to Spain and I can’t wait to put eight years of Spanish to the test, plus the food, music and sights of Seville should be amazing!

I will be taking five direct-matriculation courses at the Universidad de Sevilla, and possibly some at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide. The program is administered by a company called the Council on International Educational Exchange, or CIEE. A total of 12 Georgetown students will take part in the program. For the first 2 nights we’ll stay together in a hotel, and then we’ll move into our homestays. I’ll be living with a family – I don’t know anything about them yet!

I hope to travel to other cities in Spain – Huelva, Cádiz, Granada, Málaga, Madrid and Barcelona to name a few. CIEE has a couple trips planned for us already, but I hope to see different parts of Spain on weekends and over holidays like Semana Santa and Fería. The program ends sometime during either the last week in June or the first week in July, and I plan to travel even more at that time.

In addition to blogging, I’ll be writing a monthly cultural piece for the Daily Pilot, where I interned and worked as a reporter for the past two summers. The first story is tentatively scheduled for February 3, and the plan is for the pieces to run the first Sunday of the month until July.

Feel free to email me (schultheis.heidi@gmail.com) and post comments by clicking on the word "comments" which appears to the bottom right of each entry. Anyone can leave a comment. Last semester I got some experience keeping a blog for one of my courses, and hopefully I’ll be more diligent about updating this one frequently…

Hasta luego,

Heidi