Introduction

Hi everyone,

This summer I'll be in Oviedo, Spain for seven weeks with the immersion IU Honors Program in Foreign Languages, which draws from Indiana high school students going into junior and senior year. The program sends thirty students to each of eight cities across the globe: one in Germany, two in France, one in Mexico, and four in Spain. While in the program, I'll live with a host family, go to classes in culture, literature, conversation, grammar, and phonetics, and speak no English. (Read more about the program here.)

I only get an hour a week on the internet so that I'm not looking at English too often. This means I'm not going to have time to email everyone individually-- and here's where this blog comes in. Every week, I'll post about what's going on with pictures. Everyone should definitely leave comments, especially about news of life (remember I won't have time to respond to all of them, though...) I've set it so that people without blogger accounts can leave comments (just sign your name so I know who you are, because it'll say "anonymous" on the comment.)

ALSO, since Blogger's photo-uploading function is cumbersome and slow, I'll only put a few pictures I take up here and upload all the rest to flickr.com, account kmcdaniel001. Once I have a few pictures, I'll give a direct link to the photo album.

Finally, to test out Blogger's photo-uploading function, I'm going to upload a photo from Science Olympiad Nationals. I'm not quite sure what category of people this is, but it's a good picture, so:

Thanks, everyone! Next post will (probably) be from Spain!!