Snowballs and sleighbells and warm woolen mittens...These are NOT a few of my favorite things

According to the weather channel last week in good old St. Paul we received about 18inches of wet, icy, cold snow. One would think that after the countless blizzards and an infinite amount of snowflakes that have fallen upon the Twin Cities St. Paul would have learned what a snow plow was, and how to use it...but I digress. Amidst the "winter wonderland" I was facing last week, I was dreaming about the new wonderland I would like to refer to as "Spain." Now "Spain" is experiencing the weather that frequents the cities during the fall, and I will be able to avoid too many layers of clothing while abroad.

Obviously I have been writing this blog for a little while now, dedicated solely for my adventures, stories and ridiculousness that I will encounter, but this blog has also earned me one more thing: a job. I was chosen to be the official blogger for the IES Madrid program. Not only was I chosen as a written blogger BUT also a photo blogger. Yes, a couple hundred dollars doesn't seem like much, but i figure I'm doing this one for free, and it was money i didn't have before, so I'd like to say I came out ahead. It's a pretty big deal, there were lots of applicants, and for some unknown reason I was chosen out of the crowd; maybe it was my witty banter, that I'm not even sure how many people read, but I can prove my former English teachers that I amounted to something somewhere along the way!