buenos dias

good morning from madrid! i made it safe and sound after a long day of traveling and rushing around! long story short: i originally had a flight from raleigh to new york at 4pm and then new york to madrid, but there became a bit of a problem when the airline cancelled my flight to new york at noon! so we called the airlines and they were going to send me the next day, but yall know i was persistent on getting there at the scheduled time, so they said they had a flight to atlanta at 1:30 then i could fly from atlanta to madrid. so we took it. pops put the car in nascar mode and we checked in around 1230. i might have been in the backseat freaking out, but we made it! and who did i find sitting at the gate in raleigh, but my rooms, zoey (whose flight was delayed to atalnta so she was on mine!)

all the flights went well and arriving in madrid was a breeze. my host family is the jam. love them. we are staying with a younger girl (25) and her parents dont live here, but they help out with everything, since other students live here as well. i think my number 1 goal is going to be concha (the mom)...to make a best friend. i have been cracking up at her for hours here already. shes great. the place we are staying in is an apartment really close to a direct line on the metro to the university. my dad here (santiago) took zoey and i on our first metro adventure and showed us where to go then took us downtown and we walked around and such.

but for now, just thought i would update to say im here! im sure i will have lots more to tell once i get a little more used to the time difference, but for now, ya girl is tired and cant type without a thousand typos.