Tada! This fantastic, marvelous, absolutely stunning image is my current location, the long awaited destination that required what seemed like forever to arrive at. You would think it would be simple to arrive here, and it was supposed to be. Three planes, and boom, I was in Sevilla, Spain. Not exactly. The first flight from the Big Apple to Madrid was cancelled. Okay, not so bad; live the high life in a Double Tree. Well, long story short the airlines are big liars and their pants should definitely be on fire. The good news is that Hallie and I safely and smoothly arrived in Madrid, so at least we successfully arrived on the right continent. However, traveling to the correct city was like a bad episode of Survivor where the ultimate challenge was hauling two suitcases and a backpack through the metro system.
Hallie and I land in Madrid, Spain at 8am Wednesday, January 18th. We arrive in Sevilla, Spain at 9:30pm that night. That is 13.5 hours of pure chaos that only determination, extreme survival skills, and the grace of God allowed us to survive through. During that time we spent two hours on the metro in order to get to a bus station (this included lugging our belongings up and down two dozen flights of stairs), a six hour bus ride to Sevilla, and a taxi ride to an apartment lobby that we sat in for a half hour until our "Mom" arrived. Oh, I didn't mention the fact that neither one of us slept during our 7.5 hour flight across the big pond. As a result, we slept for 15 hours during our first night in Europe, until 4 in the afternoon!
Nevertheless, all is well that ends well. Our house mom is a total rockstar. She cooks like Emeril and has more flare than any supermodel I know of. There are only four other students in our program's university group, all females. Everyone seems nice and just down-to-earth. Tonight we had our first orientation and strolled through some of the city's streets. Tomorrow we'll be exploring more of the city and finishing getting settled. Overall, I'm very impressed by our mom's hospitality and the magnificence of the city that I could have never imagined. I cannot wait what wonderful adventures and opportunities are to come.
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