Hello everyone! I have arrived safely in Granada, after about 19 hours of travel. Our flight out of Boston went well, nothing wrong, except that the person next to me with the window seat kept her shade down until we landed, so I didn't get to see London as we arrived. Other than that, no problems. In London, all of us experienced our first bit of culture shock, as we were driving down the road and a car came towards on the right. All of a sudden there was a collective "ohhh yeahhh" from the bus! It's a strange feeling, but they drive on the right here in Granada, thank goodness. After this, our group separated (we started with 5 of us) and only Sam and I went on to Granada together, but it was still nice to have at least one person with me the entire time. However, London was experiencing "large amounts of snow" (we'd call it a dusting in New England), so our flight out of London ended up being delayed about 2 hours, after we were all on the plane. Luckily, I was exhausted and slept the entire time, as I did not sleep so well on the flight over. However, this meant that we missed our connection from Madrid to Granada and were stuck in the airport in Madrid for about 2 hours. Finally, around 6pm we arrived in Granada, exhausted, but here. It took quite some time to find our baggage and we had a few moments when we were worried that it hadn't arrived with us, but luckily, everything did, although my suitcase was a bit dirty.
My host family is very nice. I have a senora and her daughter, Anita. Her daughter is 24, so she's close enough to my age. And they have a dog, Luna, who is very cute, and nice and small too! The apartment is nice, but some of the rooms, the kitchen especially, are very small. The hardest part so far as been understanding my senora because she doesn't speak any english. I'm also learning quite how useless many of the words we often use in spanish class are, and it would be very nice to know my foods better! However, I'm getting by and learning a lot of new vocabulary in the process. So far, I haven't done much, only watched tv with my family ( a lot of news, but they like House!) and slept quite a bit. I slept the majority of today, as I was so exhausted from the flights and I did not sleep well last night, as it's strange to go to bed when you feel like it's 3 in the afternoon. But I'm slowly adjusting, and tomorrow will be meeting up with the entire UNH group around 5pm.
Hasta luego! Kristen
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