I’m sorry for those boring past few weeks you guys had to spend without getting any news from THE REAL WORLD MADRID! But I really did not have much time to take a breath - in the days after the fare well dinner I had to pack up my entire life from the …
We are back from our trip to San Sebastián! (The last trip for this semester, and for some of us the last trip with Suffolk.)San Sebastián, to me, is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain. This small city by the beach surprises with so much sophi…
You know how it’s always quite beneficial to know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody? Well, the students in our Government class “Politics of the Middle East” are lucky enough to have a professor with connections to the Spanish Ministry of …
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… to tell you how my Spring Break was. Well… see for yourself! (Lagos, Portugal)
After a week and a half of spring-breaking all over Europe, everybody found their way back to Madrid safely. What’s next on the program? …Oh right: FINALS! In pretty much three weeks we will be out for the summer. And for some of us, this means our t…
We are very close to legendary Spring Break here at the Suffolk University Madrid Campus. It’s the time when everybody is nervous about finding cheap offers for spending those eleven days visiting all the places they haven’t seen yet. Road trips, cruis…
I am so happy that the depressing days of winter are pretty much over! Here is another thing about Madrid that I’m going to miss: the winters are much shorter than in other cities (cough, BOSTON!, cough). Bye bye boots, hello ballerinas! The spring sta…
Last week a group of staff/faculty/students (including me) decided to be cultural for once. So we dressed up and went to the theater Lope De Vega on the Madrid-version of the Broadway, Gran Via, to watch a flamenco interpretation of the opera Carmen by…
One of the exciting excursions Suffolk Madrid had organized for this spring was a weekend trip to Granada - a beautiful little city in the South of Spain, at the bottom of the Sierra Nevada. We were a cozy group of around 40 people and we stayed in a c…
We’ve had some busy days at our cute little Suffolk Madrid Campus lately… Not only is it almost time for midterms, so you see nervous students running around everywhere, but our amazing Student Council came up with some great ideas to keep us enterta…
A few days ago I was being lazy and decided to take a taxi to school instead of the metro. Watching the city and its people during that 20 minute ride made me remember that after the summer I won’t be coming back to this place that has been my…
And this is where our amazing university staff brought us this time for the orientation trip: Sevilla! Very charming, small city in the heart of Anadalucía - covered in orange trees and partet by a small river. We visited the countryside surrounding S…
The Fall semester 2008 is officially over my friends! Classes, Finals, Papers: done!Everyone is hopping on their plane now to fly back home to spend christmas with their families. Some will be coming back after the break, and some won’t. But to say bye…
… John Mayer sang the following lines into my ear: They love to tell youStay inside the linesBut something’s betterOn the other sideI wanna run through the halls of my high schoolI wanna scream at theTop of my lungsI just found out there’s no such th…
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So, I just came back from our Suffolk Thanks Giving Dinner…(or rather: I just rolled back) and the only thing I can still move are my fingers. We had a reservation for a little over 50 people in a restaurant that decided to make a special Thanks Givi…
