Estoy aqui, estoy aqui!

I'm here, I'm here! Finally, I am in Granada. I arrived on Saturday around 5pm after a nice 28 hour travel excursion starting in Philadelphia, then to Brussels, then to Malaga, then on a bus from Malaga to Granada. I'm currently staying with my wonderful host mom from last semester, Maria Jose. I'm here until, well, tomorrow because then I leave for Switzerland! I'm keeping all my stuff that I'm not taking to Switzerland here, like I did for my winter vacation. I'm so grateful to her that she's letting me stay here for a little while I find an apartment and for letting me keep my stuff here so I don't have to put it in storage and lug it around Granada. I'm meeting for the apartment that I want tonight so, fingers crossed everybody, that I'll report back to you guys with good news about it!

My friend Rachel and her mom are back in Granada after a trip to Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia. Rachel is another year student and her mom is visiting her for a little. We went out to dinner last night which was lots of fun! It was so nice to see a familiar face from last semester back here in Granada. I'm definitely missing all the people from last semester but I am very excited to meet more new people this semester!

I'm off to go buy my ticket to Madrid for tomorrow. Next time I'll be writing, it'll be about my time in Switzerland (and hopefully my new and first ever apartment!!)! I can't wait!! :D

Here I come!

I'm off! I'm just about done packing, which is a good thing considering I leave for the airport in 2 hours.


3pm on Saturday, Spain time, I will be back to my newest home :)

Back at it again

Hola, guapos! I am getting ready to head back to Granada, Espana este viernes for 4 more months of amazingness! I'm starting to pack (okay, if we go by 'it's the thought that counts' motto, I'd currently be done. AKA I haven't quite started anything yet. I have 2 days, right? )  I am getting SUPER pumped for this next semester. I will be in my own apartment with Spanish students but still visiting my amazing host mom, Maria Jose, and eating some of her cooking. I'm getting amped up to see some of the API year students and my other friends still in Granada. And, as there is with everything, I have the opposite feeling of a bit of sadness knowing that a large chunk of my friends from last semester will not be at CLM during our pausas but rather at their home universities. Super sad but thinking of all the lifelong friendships formed in the past 4 months, I know that there are only more friendships to come in these next 4 months.

I'm heading out on this Friday and staying in Granada until Tuesday when I get to goooooooooooo to Switzerland! My good friend Kristen and I are taking an 8 day, 7 night trip to Suiza, as the Spanish language calls it, starting in Geneva, then Lausanne, then Interlaken, and finally back to Geneva before we head our separate ways--Mallorca for her and Granada for me.

More exciting news, drum roll please *brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrb* (yes, that is my computer impersonation of a drum), my brother is coming out to visit me! He  plans on coming over for his spring break in which he will visit Granada-- duh-- and then we'll go on to travel Ireland and London! Talk about excited. I can't even express it!


Off to go start packing!

Besos y abrazos a todos
xoxo
Katie