I'll take "blog" for 100, Alex.

I hate blogging because 1) I'm not really going to remember to update this thing and 2) is anybody even actually reading it? But after the encouragement of many friends and family, I'm going to try and blog while abroad since I can't really keep everyone in the loop through phone calls/texts/skype. Plus, it'll probably be fun to look back on after my trip is over. I figure it's probably easier to figure out how to do this while in America, so I may be just a little ahead of myself. I'm super excited to go on this trip but I'm also a little bit nervous. I've never been THAT far away from home and certainly not without anybody that I know! I hope no crazy Europeans creep on the poor little American girl and I end up like in that movie Taken! In an attempt to keep updating this thing and also learn something about the place where I'm going (because let's be honest, it's me and I've done about zero research) I'm going to post a fact about it everyday until I leave! So I'll start with some basic geography. Ubeda is a city in the Jaen province of the autonomous community of Andalusia in Southern Spain. (note to self: figure out how to type accent marks)