I'm here!

I'm finally unpacked and settled enough to write about my past two days. Friday morning I left Milwaukee (3 hours late) and flew to Philadelphia. I had a nice dinner in the Philadelphia airport and my plane to Madrid left at 9 PM. I was lucky enough to have two seats to myself so I actually got a little sleep on the plane. When we got to Spain it was 10 in the morning, but to me it felt like 3 AM! There were two other girls from Ripon on my flight so we all went to what we thought was the place where they AYA director would meet us. We waited and waited and she never showed up. Finally we figured out how to call her and found out we were in the wrong place and she had been waiting for almost 2 hours for us! Opps! We met up with all of the rest of the study abroad students and went to our hotel. The hotel was right in the center of Madrid and within walking distance to everything. Me, Sondie, and our new friend Katie went to grap a bite to eat and then took a little nap because we had been awake for over 24 hours. Saturday night we went "Tapa Hopping" with out director. We went to two different tapa bars and got lots of different tapas to taste. They were all delicious (at least the vegetarian ones that I could actually eat). Today we got to meet our host families. My Senora is very nice and I think we're going to get along well. She hosted another Ripon student last year. We live in an appartment on the sixth floor and there is a huge balcony overlooking the street. Unfortunitly it's too cold and windy to go out on it today. My Senora has a grown son who does not live here. She also has a little dog that looks and acts just like Murray. I unpacked all of my things and had lunch with my Senora and her friend Anna. Tonight will be a relaxing night of getting settled. Tomorrow we have a walking tour of Madrid so I hope the weather improves!