Hasta Luego Spain, Hello U.S. of A

Writing in english is something that hasn't happened in 3 1/2 months! I just came back to the good old United States on Wednesdsay and reverse-culture shock is even harder, but having a McDonald's breakfast sandwich made coming back that much better.
Spending a semester abroad in a foreign country, especially in a country with a different language, was the hardest thing I have ever done but by far the most rewarding. It was very hard at first to get adjusted to school and living with a family but it soon just becomes a way of life. Not only did I gain language and independence, but life experience that I could have never gotten at any university. I am ready to get back in to the swing of things here in the U.S. I am hoping I can go back to Salamanca really soon.
I uploaded some of my favorite pictures. The first one is of the Plaza Mayor, the center of the city. Manolo, one of our great professors, and I at our final dinner. La Sagrada familia in Barcelona. The train station in Portugal. The outside of the Reina Sofia art museum.