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Tomorrow we have a holiday. Corpus Christi. It’s a feast day in celebration of the Holy Eucharist. A celebration of that strange act of transubstantiation in which the bread and the wine are miraculously transformed into the body and blood of Christ. Not metaphorically, but literally. I only know this because we were talking to
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I’d forgotten how quiet Sundays can be. In Amsterdam, things carry on every day 24/7 and Sunday is a day much like any other. When I first arrived there, this wasn’t the case. Sundays were lazy days when the shops were shut and the purpose of the day was to rest up and just kick
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I love getting lost in new cities. Not so lost of course that I start to feel vulnerable or uneasy. But just lost enough that I feel I have to start paying attention to my surroundings. Lost enough to have to start making a mental map. It’s the only way to get to know a
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Hola! And that, my friends, is the extent of my Spanish. Hopefully I will learn more as the weeks fly by here. I would like to think I will pick up at least a smidgen, however, looking at the course work so far and the difficluty of the assignments we have to complete, I fear
