First day in Spain

Hi everyone,

So today was my first day in Espana!  We had to get up at a God awful hour this morning though (3A.M) to get to the airport like 2 hours early.  Our flight left London at around 8 and we arrived in Malaga at like 11:30.  That's when we met Paula, the Resident Director, and we took our bus to Granada.  The bus ride was about 2 hours long, but it was worth it.  When we pulled into Granada at our bus stop it was so cute because all the senoras (homestay hosts) were waiting there for us.  They called us each up and introduced us to our senoras and off we went.  As expected we had to roll all our luggage through the streets to our homes, which was quite a feet, and then getting them in the elevators is even more interesting.  But here's a few pictures of my home-stay.

This is just the little living room in the apartment.  It's actually a pretty big apartment with nice furniture and a long hallway.  

And this is my bedroom that I share with my roommate Julia.  It's pretty much the size of a double in college.    We each also have a huge dresser that we put all of our stuff in. 

When we got to the house had lunch right away because we were starving after being up so early and everything.  Julia, my senora made us a really good noodle soup and some incredible chicken.  It was excellent food.  After lunch we just unpacked and got ourselves settled and from there we took a small tour of Granada and stuff that we need to know about that's important.  Not that I took much in because I'm so overwhelmed.  I was surprised with myself because I was actually not shy about speaking Spanish and chatted most of lunch with Julia, obviously making mistakes but she's been correcting me and I'm feeling much more confident than I was before.  

Here's a few pictures of the city. 

An older part of Granada that you literally have to take donkeys up or walk to because the streets are so small.

Plaza de Isabella 

City Hall

As you can see, most places still have their Christmas decorations up, it's pretty comical.  But now I'm just hanging out at the house waiting for dinner in like 2 hours, haha.  I'm feeling good, but pretty homesick too.  

Miss you all!!  

Till next time. <3