As my six week stay in Valencia, Spain is fading fast, I am forced to look back on my experiences here and am quickly realizing how much I am going to miss this place. The people I have met and and the constant laughter over the experiences we have shared will forever remain in my memory. For those of you who will follow in my footsteps on a journey abroad, I have composed a list of 13 crucial moments of studying abroad in Valencia you will encounter as told by none other than Amy Poehler.

1. When you refuse to accept that water at restaurants is not free.

Upon arriving in Valencia, you will marvel at the blue, cloudless skies, beautiful plazas, and the countless gelato stands. However, you will soon learn of a major glitch in the system here in Valencia, and this glitch is the lack of free water. This will take some getting used to, whereas the lack of free bread at restaurants is something that may never gain your acceptance.

2. When you successfully communicate your order with your Spanish speaking waiter.

3. When your waiter says its chicken paella but reveals post meal (while laughing hysterically), that is actually rabbit.

Even when your waiter does speak some form of English, you will soon come to realize the waiters in Valencia have a sense of humor when it comes to their American customers. This may or may not be a personal story.

4. When you realize Siesta (Spanish nap time) is a lie.

The truth of the matter is that Spaniards never sleep. Ever. They go out until the sun rises, they go to work, they do not actually sleep during Siesta break, they return to work, then they repeat the process all over again. You soon come to terms with the fact that they are robots.

5. When you feel cultured after your first museum visit.

You try to tell yourself that if it were not mandatory to go to these places for your classes, then you would go anyways but we all know this is a lie. Regardless, you attempt to focus your attention on the artwork and architecture so you can pretend to be more cultured than your friends when you return to America.

6. When you go to your first flamenco concert and they give you free Sangria.

The best part is you can't even understand all of the Spaniards yelling at you to sit down.

7. When you realize dancing in a circle with your friends is the cool thing to do in Spain and looking like a dork while doing it is not only completely acceptable but encouraged.

8. When the teacher of your 9:00 a.m. class asks if you are okay because you seem a little "out of it."

What she does not realize is that you spent the night before at Foxcongo which somehow turned into a morning adventure of watching the sunrise on the beach. In turn, this left you with a solid fifteen minutes of sleep prior to class. On the bright side, you can applaud yourself for finally adapting to the sleep schedule of a typical Spaniard.

9. When unlimited wine is provided with the mandatory program dinner.

10. The moment you realize you now need elastic waist bands on all of your jeans and you're also bringing back an extra chin to the states.

11. When you finally go to the market in a last ditch effort to eat healthy.

You realize that despite the animal heads in the stand windows, it is a truly magical place.

12. When you realize you only have a week left in Valencia and therefore have to live it up.

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