The checklist

America: check

Maryland, Virginia, DC, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Arizona: check, check...oh you get the point.

Do all that in five week's time: check

Have quality time with awesome and ridiculously good-looking family: check

See lots of friends: check

Acquire a spare tire from eating delicious American food: check

Visit law schools: check

Fly back to Spain: check

Find new apartment: check

Preferably one where the kitchen and bedroom aren't the same thing: check

Go out for tapas: check

Get stared at in the grocery store for being too blonde: check (oh how I missed that!) 

Start work in my new school: check

Get hopelessly lost getting to new school: check-a-roo