why we went to spain

 
anyone familiar with my original blog (which was strictly a salzburg blog) should know the names ‘sergio’ and ‘roman’ very well.  for those of you unfamiliar with these names, allow me to provide a backstory.  {also, as a visual aid, note that sergio = dark hair / roman = blonde.}

caroline and i were roommates in salzburg and we lived in an international studentenheim (a student home…kind of like a dorm but way, way better) amongst students from germany, hungary, spain, poland, ireland, england, bulgaria, etc.  sergio and roman lived above us and, as a result, we saw a lot of them.  they were a huge part of our experience in austria; had i not been so close with them, my time in salzburg would have been quite different, not to mention significantly less eventful (and i daresay there would have been a much lower number of “laugh ‘til your sides hurt” moments).
i often referred to our salzburg spanish counterparts as our older brothers - partly because of their protective nature and partly because they were so gosh-darn annoying.  for every memory of them making me laugh to the point of tears, there is a memory of me stomping down the stairs telling caroline, “i hate the spanish boys!” to match.

and let me tell you, despite the fact that they were the sole reason we even went to spain (we’d both already been a few times and didn’t really have any pressing sightseeing wishes to fulfill), there were a few times during our week there that i said to caroline, “put me on a plane, i need to get out of here”.  let’s just say they haven’t lost their touch when it comes to pushing my buttons.

do you want one example?  they do not – and i repeat – do not approve of any remotely pretty girl dating anyone who is not spanish*.  they say it’s “a waste of the beauty”.  and they will argue with you until they’re blue in the face if you beg to differ.

our week in spain was filled with frustration, hysteria, tapas, beautiful weather, drama (just a smidge) and more “spanish boy quotes” than i can remember; some of which i will share here and some of which i will never share, anywhere.

moral of the story:  stick around.  because i’ve got about a whole week’s worth of posts on these two.

*why the subject of our current non-spanish boyfriends = the most taboo topic in the history of topics