The Matt Faus Blog

The funny thing about celebrating your 21st birthday in Spain, is that it doesn’t really signify anything special here. I guess I don’t know if they get breaks on their insurance, but the drinking age is 16. Sixteen. So, celebrating that particular birthday here is rather anticlimactic. Regardless, I had a pretty good one. It was a pretty normal day, and then I went down to the beach that night after stopping by a cervecería just to show the world that I was a “grown up” now and played around in the sand and ocean breeze. I got home just in time to accept a call from Ashley in Germany, who is staying with one of the students that her family hosted as an exchange student a couple of years ago.

Right now, I’m sitting on the terrace of the coffee shop on the base floor of the dorm I’m living in. Surprisingly enough, they have a pretty solid wireless internet connection, even out here. It’s even completely free. However, I haven’t seen any other laptops in all the times I’ve eaten here, so maybe it’s not terribly popular. Either way, I’m really enjoying it.

Ashley is scheduled to arrive in Valencia on Sunday for a few days before her study abroad program begins, and it will be nice to see her and romp around the city.