A Breath of Bilbao: Under the Spanish Sun

Today's been the first day in a while that the weather has been warm and comforting. And that means there's only one logical thing that must be done today...

A 3-hour long midterm!

Tim (Professor Durbin) secretly laughing under his breath

After my instructor thoroughly drained our brains with an 18-question midterm, the rest of the day was spent relaxing on the beach for an equal amount of time.

Ironically, even on the beach, my peers and I still couldn't escape the concepts we had learned from the class. It has been forever ingrained in our heads that the windmills seen in the picture to the right have an energy flux of 2-3 watts per square meters.

Or that in the picture to the left, the wonderful sand on the beach and the people tanning are being exposed to somewhere around 100 watts per square meters of sunlight.

Despite seeing constant reminders of school everywhere I go, it's surprisingly nice to take a class abroad, especially when the instructor does well in incorporating the local country into his lesson plans and recuperation from an exam involves lounging on the beach.

Aside from that, not much has happened since my last post. Yesterday involved letting my curiosity get the best of me. In other words, I wanted to procrastinate from studying for today's midterm. I ended up taking the metro past my neighborhood of Algorta, and into the neighborhoods of Bidezebal and Berango. I'll use my journey to explain common sights one can see in Bilbao/Getxo, some of which I may have mentioned in earlier posts.