Aya's Life in Boone, North Carolina

i only have less than 4 months left before i go back home. im so excited about going back, but at the same time i feel sad when i think about leaving here US. im planning to leave for japan in the beginning of May.

by the way, my friend here is coming to japan this May!!! she is planning to stay at my place for about 3 weeks. she was gonna come to japan with a program which ASU made for business majors, but she is not a business major and it was way too expensive so she ended up staying at my place. anyways im so excited!!!! :)




this is my friend Josie, who is coming to japan!!!
i hope some of you guys can meet her and hang out with her! she is awesome★

hey guys!! how are you doing? i went to Spain to visit my friend over the winter break. i first met him up here in Boone, NC and then he left here at the end of October so i hadnt seen him for 2 months. it was really nice seeing him again :)

Alicante
i mainly stayed in Alicante where my friend lived. it was just beautiful!! they have a beach, castle, good restaurants....etc. and the perfect weather★ i loved it!!



this was taken in a castle. i met a japanese group there and they were from Osaka. i could easily recognize that because of the middle-aged women wearing a pink jacket and stuff like that. it was just so funny. they were the typical women in osaka(i think you know what i mean if you are from osaka)

Madrid
we made a short trip to Madrid and stayed there for 2 days.
first off, we went to watch a football game of Real Madrid. it was so much fun though they lost. we got the tickets for 30 euro and the seats on the 3rd row from the front. all the superstars were just right there and i could see their faces clearly!








the home stadium of Real Madrid.
Zidane(no idea how to spell...ジダン),
Roberto Carlos, and David Beckham.
Ronaldo was there too!







we also went to a huge park, museum, and Plaza Mayor. Madrid was pretty. i liked it a lot. they have a lot of old stuff but at the same time they have subways and other transportation so it was really convenient.

prado museum,

a huge park(forgot the name...),

↓Plaza Mayor
Christmas

i went to have dinner with my friend's family and relatives for Christmas. i had a lot of fun!!! they were just so nice. and i ate a lot of yummy food ;)

and the santa claus came to the house to give children presents!!!! everybody was like "Papa Noel, Papa Noel!!!!" which means santa claus. i wished i were a child so that i could get a present ;-)

at the last night we went to the beach again after dinner. we wrote wishes on a piece of paper and floated the papers to the sea. i hope my wishes will come true★ミ

i was in Spain for 3 weeks but i still have more and more places that i wanna go. im sure that i'll come back to spain someday!!!

i hope yall had a great break! :)