Here goes nothin'

11.16.2012


Ok, so, I've never blogged before.  Not really, anyway.  So, if I'm not very good at it, you'll have to forgive me.  Honestly, I always thought it was a little silly before, but now that I am spending a year living in a foreign country, it seems that I finally have something worthwhile to share.

I doubt there will be many people reading this besides my family and close friends, but for those of you who don't know, my name is Sarah.  I graduated this past May with a BA in Linguistics from the University of Florida, and am currently living in Galicia, Spain and working as an auxiliar de conversación/cultural ambassador.  I came here to increase my ESL/EFL experience, and also because I have dreamed of living abroad for almost my whole life.  I don't know that I ever thought I'd actually be able to do it.  This whole experience, although it has really only just begun, is just completely, magnificently overwhelming for me.

In two days, I'll have been in Lugo for one month.  One month!  Part of me feels like it should have been three or four months already, and another part of me feels like I was just saying my goodbyes at the airport yesterday.

Since this is my first post, I don't really want to write too much.  I think I'll just settle for posting some pictures of Lugo and Guntín (the village I work in) for now.   It's a bit of a lástima that I didn't start this blog earlier, as I've missed some important occurrences at this point; pulpo in October, Halloween, a trip to Ourense, a trip to Madrid...  Perhaps I will go back and add some small posts and photos of these things eventually.  Perhaps.

 La Muralla Romana.  The pride of Lugo; it is the only city in the world to be completely surrounded by intact Roman walls.  My apartment is right across the street from it ^__^

 The Monasterio de Ferreira.  This is in one of the villages of Guntín.

 Ponte Cabalar (horse bridge) in Guntín.  This was also originally Roman.

 Not the greatest quality photo, but this is the luna llena over the Roman Wall (taken from atop the wall).

 The Río Rato.  This is a little river with a lovely trail that I go jogging on semi-regularly.  It's easier to do something that you hate (jogging) while looking at such pretty scenery!

 The view from Ronda das Fontiñas (the Río Rato is down there somewhere).

 The plaza mayor de noche :)  One of the nicest places in Lugo to just be. (& to people watch!)

And, of course, the cathedral.  I can see these towers from our living room window.  It's quite impressive, but apparently it hardly holds a candle to the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, which it was modeled after.