After almost 20 hours of travel, I've made it to Madrid! My (three) flights went smoothly, except for the mysterious two hours spent sitting on the runway in Heathrow waiting to take off for Madrid. The captain may have explained this delay, but my body thought it was 6 in the morning and I was in no state to translate his rapid spanish. My attempts at Spanish with my taxi driver were much more successful. He probably cheated me, but we chatted happily about the best things to do in Madrid and he pointed out many places of interest.
My host mom's apartment is very nice. It's long and narrow with rooms off a single hallway. I have a fairly sizable room to myself that looks out into an unremarkable courtyard. I feel very metropolitan! Unpacking left me exhausted, but it's great to be connected to the internet and have access to e-mail and, of course, facebook. Elvira, my host mom, seems great. She has a little bird that she keeps in a cage and it keeps chirping. It's charming, but a bit unsettling because I'm not used to having birds quite so close. Elvira welcomed me in and fed me lasagna and salad, which was really nice because I'm pretty sure those are not native Spanish dishes. She tried to feed me more, and only after several assurances that I was full and promising to eat some more detras (later) did she let me go!
Tomorrow the plan is to go shopping for some items I didn't have room to pack (shampoo!) and meet up with some of the other kids from the program.
I can't believe I'm in Madrid.
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