Katie Thayer

I don’t love salad, but I do love mixing apples, cucumbers, berries, and seeds/nuts, and adding sweet potatoes on top. I make rice and black beans with whatever enchilada/taco seasoning you prefer, then add the same seasoning to diced sweet potatoes while I boil them. I think this is why I used to hate sweet potatoes because they were not the same as regular baked potatoes. I usually chop up sweet potatoes and *dump* them into my crockpot, then add some water, paprika, cumin, cayenne pepper, S&P, and garlic.

For You Hostel Seville for €63.00 for 2 people for 2 nights. That night we met a guy from Germany named Dominik, and we originally all planned to go out and explore the nightlife, but the hostel bar was pretty cheap and the patio was very cute, so we stayed at the hostel instead. My friend, Kruti, found a free walking tour of Seville, so we had some breakfast at Colette Patisserie & Boulangerie (delicious croissants and café con leche btw), and continued on to meet the tour group. Starting with the Metropol Parasol, then onto the oldest tobacco factory in Europe that is now part of the University, the cathedral, city hall, the Alcázar (where GoT has filmed), and ended at Plaza de España.

The first mishap was me having to sprint from Subway with our sandwiches because neither of us had eaten anything while Kruti stood outside the bus hoping the bus driver wouldn’t leave us behind. So this time wasn’t the worst, but we would have been left in Sevilla if the tour bus didn’t call us to say “where are you? ? ? ? That actually wasn’t the hard part, it was standing in 3 wrong lines because no one knew where to go to begin with and then the desk attendants sent us to the wrong place twice only to learn we didn’t need to stand in a line at all! Someone told us she had to get her boarding pass verified at a new gate because the gate listed was closed permanently for construction and they didn’t giver her an updated gate.

We do this with hopes of spending another $30-50 at the concert to upgrade to the pit, but unfortunately this year we didn’t even make it to the concert. We hiked at Cliffs of Möher and in Howth, toured the same castle we toured in 2010, and saw many family members that we hadn’t seen in years! To end the year, Ricky and I went up to NYC for New Year’s Eve. I decided I wanted to write a thesis in my sophomore year because I wanted the challenge