IN GRANADA!!

I made it! The flight was SOO long and I didn´t sleep at all from Chicago to Paris. I sat by a nice girl, Erin, though so that was really good. The food on the flight was okay, nothing phenomenal but definitely edible. Then when we got to Paris we had to go through customs for some strange reason and I wanted a stamp on my passport and they stared at me funny and laughed at me but I don´t care because I got it. Then we didn´t even think and went through security so we were stuck in the ITTY BITTY Paris terminal for three and a half hours. I slept a little bit but not too much. I was pretty passed on the flight from Paris to Málaga, though. When we got to Málaga, we went to get our luggage and then saw it rotating on a different belt so we had to run and get it, and then one guy lost his luggage so we had to sit and wait LONGER in the airport while they got all that mess figured out (another hour and a half) and then we finally left and had a two hour bus ride to Granada, but it was really pretty. We went through the mountains and got to see the Sierra Nevada and TONS AND TONS of olive trees. It was really cool. Once we got to Granada, we got into our hostel but we had to take this tiny lift up and it only fit one person with their luggage at a time. But I´m rooming with three really nice girls (Shannon, Erin, and Caitlin) so hopefully I´ll be okay. The four of us were all so exhausted and didn´t want to go to a tapas bar because you have to order alcohol to get the tapas and we really didn´t want to get alcohol and we didn´t want to pay a lot that we ended up eating at this chinese place, which was only okay, but we were all so tired that we just didn´t care and we all passed out.

This morning, we woke up at 910 and we had to be downstairs ready to go at 945 (because we set the time on the alarm for AM instead of PM last night so it was 910PM when we woke up) so we all panicked but made it okay and we just signed up for all of our classes and now we´re taking a break before we have more orientation.

I really can´t wait to get to my host family´s house and start classes and just get into the swing of things because I feel very disoriented being here right now and very out of place. So hopefully things will get better from there. I do like the people that are in the program so far, though, so that´s always good. I just can´t wait for things to feel normal and not like I´m a complete and total outsider.