hola! so day 6?

hola!

so day 6? i think in spain...

it´s been kind of crazy so far and i feel like i have been here for a month insted of a week.

we flew from jfk to paris and paris to madrid. (rach- i watched zodiac on the plane...it was ok)

when we got to madrid we had some free time to walk around the city before a bus tour. the bus tour took us to a lot of the tourist sites and got out and walked around. then we went to dinner (paellea and chicken). then i went back to the hostel to sleep because i had been awake for 32 hours straight. the next morning we went to breakfast and then got on a bus to valencia. we stopped two hours in alacon for lunch (they had watermelon slices as big as my head).

At valencia our señora, Teresa, met us at the school.  She doesn´t speak much english...so far i think she´s said juice, monday, and tired. We also live with her daughter Ibid.  She is nice and does speak some english (she studied abroad in London a few years ago). That night was the fiesta of San Juan. Which basically means that everyone from valencia goes to the beach to make bonfires and drink and at midnight everyone runs into the sea and jumps over 7 waves and on the seventh wave you make a wish. it was kind of an intense first night...and an interesting trip home. which i´d love to post more about but i´m sure i´d get various e-mails about riding the bus home alone at 4am and getting sort of lost....but i talked my way around in spanish and found the apartment...my roommate was lost worse than i was so it´s fine. and now we have our address with us at all times.

anyways....sunday was relaxing, went to the beach again, didn´t get lost.

monday school started. and i´ll post more about classes later.

mañana

kk