Madrid - "the most Spanish of all cities"

Apparently one of Hemingway's favorite cities in the world was Madrid. I feel like I vaguely knew that he spent time here way back when, but either way, I thought this NY Times article was interesting.

On a more or less entirely different note, the other night we had an end-of-the-year party celebration at school with our program coordinator, professors, and staff. There are a good amount of us staying next year to teach and some even to translate, but it's going to be weird not seeing some of these people again. Coming from a university with a near 5000-student undergraduate class, being in a program of 23 people is a huge difference for me. It's had its ups and downs in terms of size, but overall it's been a good ten or so months.

Everyone, including some of our professors

Everyone with our program coordinator.

With our program coordinator.

That's pretty much it. The thesis is in the final stages (aka editing, writing a conclusion, formatting), so that's pretty much all that's in store for the final two weeks of June. Hasta entonces.