Hemingway
I know that my updates are becoming less and less regular as my time in Spain draws to an end and for that I apologize. Things have gotten quite busy trying to squeeze every last drop of Spain out of our remaining days. I spent yesterday doing some shopping both for myself and for souvenirs for friends. I did my best with everyone’s requests. Today has been trying to catch up on work around Onix and prepping for my last week. We have a lot of projects to finish by Thursday and there is a lot of fun left to be had in this town.
Last night a group of us decided to go on a Hemingway bar tour. I had researched several bars that Ernest Hemingway frequented and we walked between them after a great dinner. All of the places he liked to go to were small, out of the way bars which all have incredible personality to them. You could almost picture him hunched over in the corner sipping absinthe jotting notes in a moleskin penning famous lines in “The Old Man and The Sea” or “For Whom the Bell Tolls” For those of you not as familiar with Hemingway, I strongly recommend a little reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway. Why is it that all the best authors are really messed up people? In any case, his contribution to American literature should never be forgotten.
Randy comes to visit on Tuesday with some friends. Should be a lot of fun. I’m trying to wrap up work so that I will be able to spend more time hanging out with him.
I have had a lot of thoughts lately about Spain, the US, foreign travel, cultural perceptions… the only problem is that I have not been able to formulate any of them into thoughts concrete enough to write down. I’ll work on that and get back to you. Until then, it is Sunday night and I do not have class tomorrow. So I am going to utilize the fact that it is the weekend and enjoy myself. Expect a flood of pictures to flickr at some point tomorrow.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Because American literature in itself is depressing.