Hola Espana!

So we made it here safe!  The drive to Chicago was fast, despite the fact that Mom and Dad are THE WORST drivers in the world and I nearly had 18 heart attacks.  I was more worried about them making it back to DePere safe than me making it to Sevilla.  On the bright side, there was a Chipotle right by the airport...which was probably the best way to spend my last meal before leaving America for 4 months.  I actually only ate half and went through customs and security with the other half and ate it right before I boarded haha.  Didn't have to pay any extra fees for my checked bag being 53 pounds, my carry-on being too big and much too heavy and my personal item being big enough to pass as a carry-on.  Then, the 8 hour flight may or may not have been one of the more torturous things I've experienced in my life.  Didn't sleep even 5 minutes the entire time, they played a boring movie, forgot to charge my iPod before I left and it was too dark to read.  Then, we had a <1 hour layover in Madrid, and literally had to run to the boarding gate (which may have been funny if I weren't carrying my 30 pound "carry on" and 10 pound "purse").  But enough of me being a Debbie Downer....yayyyyy finally here.  Still doesn't feel real!

Spain is kinda crazy.  You could see the 6 lane round-a-bouts from the plane.  The first song I heard was Kesha, 'We are who we R' in English.  The people here treat water like it's super fancy and almost like an expensive dessert.  It's served in fancy bottles and I really just want to order a Tosh-tini.   I have tried something new with each meal (look at me getting out of my comfort zone/trying not to starve to death)...some soup-ish thing which was sherbert orange and kinda like tomato soup but textured like apple sauce and cold, eggplant and shrimp.  Hopefully not breathing while eating is a habit I can acquire very quickly haha.  Oh, and facebook automatically updated the time for me...how did it know I changed time zones?  And know Google (pronounced googlay here) and all the websites are in Spanish...is there some sort of tracking device on my computer?  Oh, and was not prepared to see the badet (spelling?) in the bathroom...awkward.

There are 90 people in the CIEE Business & Society program from the US.  Probably about 20 from Madison and quite a few from Indiana University.  Not really anything too exciting yet but figured you were all SO worried about me making it here safe, so I thought I'd let you know :)  

Adios.

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