FINALMENTE

After what seemed like forever, we finally made it to Madrid!!!!!!!!!!  The flight was long, and I'm super tired, considering I'm starting my 24th straight hour of being awake and it's only 1:45 in the afternoon.  BUT it's all okay because we're here!  There are two girls from my program in my homestay, which is nice! Instead of taking a taxi from the airport, one of my roommates wanted to take the Metro (I mean, it was free!) so we began our first adventure. As Madrid is allegedly a petty-crime hotspot, we had to be super careful since we were obviously exhausted tourists arriving at 7:45 in the morning and carrying huge suitcases.  But everything was fine! The metro stop was super close to the piso and luckily it has an elevator so we didn't have to climb all of those stairs!

We met another student and our señora, both of whom are very nice!!! We've spent the day so far talking and going on a couple of errands with our señora, which is good to see the city! Bad thing is that it is raining here.  But tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and warm!!! And pretty soon it's off to our first orientation meeting!!!! Excited!!