January 18th

Wow! is all I can say. Today was my first full day in Spain. I had many complications on my flights over here. I have never been that stressed, worried, scarred, tired, and helpless in my life. First of all my first flight from PDX to Denver was 2 hours behind so they changed it from PDX to DEN to PDX to Chicago in order for me to even have a chance at making my flight from London to Malaga. Well of course I missed it because London Heathrow airport is so big and confusing and you have to take a bus from terminal to terminal. So because I missed the flight from Heathrow I had to convert some money to pounds which was sooooo expensive, go through customs, take a 45 min. bus ride to London´s other airport. Then wait for 5 hours or more for my flight. As I was waiting I realized that my flight into Malaga comes in too late to catch the bus to Granada. I had to call my parents multiple times to figure out where to send my lost luggage and where I was going to stay in Malaga. It was a nightmare!!! Thank goodness I had contact with my parents (even though most of it was filled with tears and sobs!) because if I didnt I seriously would have died. Then in the morning I woke up to take the 2 hour bus to Granada. I didnt sleep very well because I was worried that they guy at the front desk (who didnt speak any english AT ALL!) wasnt going to call at the right time so I kept on waking up. But I made it to the bus station and to Hotel Melia in Granada okay!
I have never been so relieved to see American people in my life. It was nice to meet people and get some kind of idea of what to expect and how things were going to be. After the meeting we saw who we were living with and met our host family. My senora is Julia, she is pretty trendy, older i think around 60, very bubbly, and talks really REALLY fast! I like her a lot, I just need to get used to speaking because at this point it is really hard to communicate. The girl that is living in Julia´s house with me is really nice. I am so glad I got paired with her. Her name is Tammy she´s from Iowa, a junior at central college, spanish major (so she´s really good at spanish!) It´s a big relief to have a good host family and roomate. Once everything settles down and I get everything in order and in a routine, it will be perfect!