Today Vincent, our little Frenchman, left. The flat is down to two, Ward and I, but I will be leaving tomorrow and Ward is going to move out as well but he is staying here for 2 more weeks. We miss our Frenchy already.

Friday was la fiesta de San Juan because it was the first day of summer. People began arriving at the beach during the day to set up camp to spend the night there. There were people and bonfires covering the entire beach along the entire coast. I have never seen so many people in one place at the same time in my life. It was literally atleast half the population of Valencia on the beach. The estimate on how many people that were there is 300,000. Twice as many as the year before. At midnight everybody ran into the sea then came out and dried off by the fires. I can't think of anything else to help describe the event, so check out the pics. Hasta Viernes

Today Travis (Maryland) a.k.a. Trapster left. 2 down, 3 left

well it's official, back to reality June 30th.

This past weekend I went to Madrid with Sara, one of my best friends from high school. We had to take the 6 hour train because all the early trains were already full. This actually worked out because it gave us plenty of time to sleep and we still got there at 2 in the afternoon. Once we finally made it out of the subway and to our hostel, we saw somebody that went to high school with us, but he was in the grade below us. We didn’t stay at that hostel because they overbooked and we made our way to the new hostel they booked us at. Once situated, we explored one-half of Madrid until around 10 pm when we went to a bar and watched the U.S.-Italy soccer game. There were actually Spaniards cheering for the U.S., I though I would never see anything like that. After that, we walked around some more and then went to the hostel to get some rest for Sunday. We hit a couple of the same spots again before heading to the other half of Madrid. In all we visited cathedrals/churches, museums, parks, a lot of Burger Kings, more parks, a huge palace and a few more parks. It was a lot of fun and the pics are up on webshots: http://community.webshots.com/user/jamal424 ¡Hasta Pronto!

Happy Father's Day! sorry for the one day delay, I was in Madrid.

Sam, my Austrailian brother, left today. He is the first to leave from our piso. We will see him again if we can make up to New York when he comes in October.

No more school for me... until August atleast

Happy 21st Nick