Goodbye USA...Hola Espana

Sorry for the late post but I haven't had a chance to actually sit down at a computer without paying by the hour. I’ve been in Spain for almost a week now, and it has been a great trip so far.

The flights seemed short but the layovers were long. The flight from Chicago to London was 7 hours and I managed to watch three movies (What Happens in Vegas, Kung Fu Panda, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and an episode of The Office and an episode of Two and Half Men plus managing to get about an hour of sleep. The layover in London was about six hours but we (Maggie, Jill, Kayla, and I) passed the time by having lunch and walking around...a lot.

The flight from London to Malaga was a two and a half hour flight. I sat next to a guy from the London area who could tell I was an American just by my conversation on the plane with Maggie. We talked practically the whole way to Malaga about the widest variety of topics: What our home towns/countries are like which lead to politics (and I'm not a person to really talk about politics but it was quite interesting) which lead to the war, which lead to athletics, and then to the best part of our conversation. He asked me, “What’s the deal with American football? You guys look like a bunch of pussies with all of those pads on…look at those rugby players, they only wear shin guards.” I found this hilarious just by the way he phrased the question and the cultural differences between such similar countries. So I tried to explain American football to him and he responded, “So it’s like rugby and soccer combined but using your hands plus a little too much extra padding?” I laughed and told him that’s basically it, because there was no way to explain it with out actual film of a game.

The weather in Malaga was beautiful. It was about 7:30 and the sun was still out and around 28 degrees (near 80 Fahrenheit). We waited for our luggage and realized after about 15 minutes our luggage was at a different claim since we weren’t from the EU. So right after we got there all four of us had got our bags. Thankfully, we all got our luggage because we had heard horror stories about students other students having their bags lost.

The weather in Malaga was beautiful. It was about 7:30 and the sun was still out and around 28 degrees (near 80 Fahrenheit). We waited for our luggage and realized after about 15 minutes our luggage was at a different claim since we weren’t from the EU. So right after we got there all four of us had got our bags. Thankfully, we all got our luggage because we had heard horror stories about students other students having their bags lost.

We got to our hotel which was one of the coolest hotel rooms I had ever been in. The shower had four heads all enclosed in glass, and we had a queen size bed and a bunk bed (Pictures on page). We also had an LCD TV and wireless internet came with the room.

So after a short email to our families telling them that we had arrived safely. We walked around the downtown area. We found a place that had Kababs (Similar to a chicken sandwich / wrap / pita) which one of my favorite foods from my trip to Peru almost two years ago. We ended up going to bed around 12:30 and not waking up until 11. And the next morning we went to the bus station for Granada. The streets and sidewalks in Spain are amazing, they are all stone or marble bricks or tiles.

More to come soon...