2013

by Daniel William Bloodgood Has it really been 8 weeks? Honestly the time has just flown. For the past two months I felt like I have been in an all out blitz to test as many participants as possible.  Although our participants did not seem interested in returning for...

by Kelsey Joan Halloran You will all be glad to hear that the presentations went without a problem. I was more frightened than I should have been. The lab was not mean, or criticizing, but just interested in what were doing. All in all they were pleased with the...

by Benjamin Geoffrey Stewart It's unbelievable to think of how formative such a short time can be.  As someone who's got a lot of things left to learn, it's remarkable to me still how significant the changes are that one single year brings.  Friends are lost, friends...

by Britney Ann Massimino So I am in my final week here in Granada and I can't believe that my time here is shortly coming to an end. I have been able to run a total of 34 participants during my time here in Granada and I am very happy about this number. While I know...

by Benjamin Geoffrey Stewart I have to apologize for last week - as you've probably surmised already, it was a bit of a hectic time, but I did successfully run my last participant in the lab! Everything is now done, save for organizational things and presenting my...

by Kelsey Joan Halloran Sorry I didn't get to post my blog for last week, but I have been pretty busy finishing everything up. There was a lot of work to be done and spent most of last week in the lab all day working on coding and segmenting out the data that I can...

by Kelsey Joan Halloran I have successfully received all ten of my native Spanish speakers. Its way different testing them than testing the L2 Spanish speakers. The natives are a lot quicker at the tasks. Where it would take the English students a half hour to 45...

by Britney Ann Massimino This past week and a half in Granada has been filled with many exciting and cultural experiences here in Granada. I recently went to my first flamenco show which was absolutely amazing. It took place in this really pretty area up on the...

by Benjamin Geoffrey Stewart The title of this post is obviously not a temporal reference, as I still have another month exactly before returning to the good ol' US of A.  No, this is in reference to my experiment, which is still going swimmingly but now frustratingly...

by Daniel William Bloodgood Well it's hard to believe that my time on PIRE is now more than halfway over. The time has truly flown by and Spring Semester in State College feels almost like a distant memory.  Since coming here I've learned so much about Spanish...

by Britney Ann Massimino I have finally figured out how to upload some pictures!   All of the PIRE undergraduates/grad students at the lab. What a beautiful view we have of Granada here! With the little wifi there is in the lab we tend to often go to the...

by Britney Ann Massimino Last week the Granada fair that happens every year took place. This is a big event here and the city put up lights all around the town to celebrate. There were also a bunch of flamenco dances and puppet shows in the center close to where I...

by Kelsey Joan Halloran I am not up to 20 participants done. I would say that's a pretty solid job. The struggle has now become finding people who have been here for at least a month. Almost all of the spring semester students have left and now the flock of summer...

by Daniel William Bloodgood Well another busy week of research here in Spain! As we were informed, most study abroad programs ended last Friday so we were in an all-out sprint to test as many people as possible before they left. While we were able to get a lot of...

by Benjamin Geoffrey Stewart It's true what they say.  Time flies when you're having fun.  And, truth be told, I'm having a great time meeting and working with so many different types of people (the majority of which are, fortunately, language nerds like myself).  And...

by Britney Ann Massimino Since my last blog, my time here in Granada has flown by. As of yesterday, I know have had ten participants and three more already scheduled to come in next Monday. In my study I am looking for participants who have been studying abroad here...

by Benjamin Geoffrey Stewart What a week it has been in Granada! Lab work has been going well - I haven't had quite the rush Dan/Brittany/Kelsey have since my participants are still a ways off from final exams, but I'm certainly keeping myself busy! As of 48 hours...

by Daniel William Bloodgood Well time to sit down again and write another blog post. It's been a really busy week since most of the study abroad programs are ending this week and it's a sprint to the finish to try to test as many people as we can before they leave. ...

by Kelsey Joan Halloran This past week has been a little bit of a struggle. There is still the issue of Wifi struggles here. The people at the Haagen Dasz officially know me as" the American girl who needs wifi so she comes, buys a coffee, and sits there twice a day",...

by Benjamin Geoffrey Stewart De vez en cuando doy cuenta de que, aunque la mayoría de la gente aquí (especialmente por dentro del centro CIMCYC, el edificio en lo que hago mis investigaciones) habla inglés con algún nivel de competencia, debo tratar de usar español...

by Benjamin Geoffrey Stewart There are certain things in this world that people like to be aware of: the price of food, the condition of their possessions, and whether or not you may happen to be wearing two different types of stripes at the same time.  One of my...

by Britney Ann Massimino The first week here in Granada has flown by! I had been looking forward to my trip to Granada for months and when I finally landed I couldn't believe that I had finally made it. Luckily for me, my flights went very smoothly and I only...

by Daniel William Bloodgood Hello everyone and welcome to my first PIRE Blog post. I would just like to start out by saying that I am so thrilled to be here in Granada.  When I got off the plane, I was truly blown away by the architecture and landscape of this amazing...

by Kelsey Joan Halloran Out of all the trips and plane rides I have been on, the trip here has been the smoothest so far. There was one little glitch in a plane delay on the way to Granada and getting lost in the Madrid airport, but Brittney and I were able to get...

by Benjamin Geoffrey Stewart Hello everybody and welcome to the pilot post of my PIRE Fellowship Blog! This page will serve as the communicative forum for all of my (mis)adventures over the course of my stay in Granada, Spain, and I'll update at least once a week with...