we have arrived!

Yay Salamanca!!!
Ann and i are going to blog separately because we aren't allowed in each others houses, but sometimes we can blog together when we are together at school.

So we arrived in Madrid yesterday! i think i slept zero on the flight over, so before i went to bed last night it had been about 30 hours since i last slept blehh. And i also didnt sleep well last night, so needless to say im exhausted, but i think we all are. We met Miguel, Maria Angeles', the director of the program, husband. He's so cute and super nice and we've been with him since then, but we meet Maria Angeles in a day or two when she gets back from Chile i believe.

We got on a bus and drove to Salamanca, and on the way we stopped at a restaurant called AutoGrill and ate. I got a sandwich which consisted of some kind of meat, cheese, and what looked like uncooked bacon haha. but it was pretty good. After that we finally arrived in Salamanca and it's sooooooo bonita! We pulled up to this building with a bunch of old ladies standing outside and realized they were our madres awwwww. Then we got off and Miguel read our names one by one, we did the kiss on each side of the face thing, and our madres took us away to our casas. 

My madre got a taxi and a few minutes later we got to her apartment. It's super cute! My room is really small, but i like it alot. She has a husband also, but no children. We had dinner last night, and she kept asking me questions and half the time i didnt know what she was asking, so it was kinda awk, but whatevs, it'll be fine. 

So today we had our first class, or i guess it's just a review for the next 2 weeks, at the university. We met in La Plaza de La Libertad, and walked through Plaza Mayor, to get to the university. We came upon a cathedral and it's the biggest building i think i've ever seen. Not tallest, but just biggest. soooooo biggggggg. I'm super excited to explore the city and travel around and see other amazing monuments and buildings and such. 

But after class we all went back to our houses, and it was then that i realized i didnt know what street i lived on, just the general vicinity, and the number of our apartment is 8. So i ended up getting lost, and wandered around the same area for a little over an hour with my map out, with no money and no phone and super hungry. it was greeeaaatttt. I don't even know how many doors i tried my keys in haha, but finally i turned a corner and saw an 8, and hoped so much that that was my 8 and that i wouldn't have to wait until 5, which was 2 and a half hours away, when i was going to meet a few of the girls in our group. I got in and was half an hour late to lunch, but my madre understood! yayyyy. So i just ate and am now going to take a siesta which sounds marvelous, then wake up and go get some euros and a phone :)

I think we're also all going out tonight at 1130ish, so im super pumped for that. yayyy espanaaaaaaa :)

Haley