Day One

I'm here, and its actually 1:01 am right now, so technically it is the 2nd day I've been here.

But anyway, that was the longest travel day ever. Started at 2 pm on January 6th and ended at 5 pm January 7th. Yes, it goes ahead 7 hours; but it is also a lot of travel time. We ran through Chicago O'Hare to catch a plane we thought we had been at for an hour already, and waited in London Heathrow for 4 hours (most boring airport ever) and then arrived in Barcelona at 3 pm. We waited for 2 hours before making it through customs because the airline lost one of Mike's luggage. Lame.

Luckily, I got a really great Host family with a young host that lets us do pretty much whatever we want. And his mom lives upstairs and cooks us great dinners. I find it actually pretty easy to understand their Spanish, so hopefully I learn a lot!

Tomorrow we are going to Las Ramblas, La Sagrada Familia, and L'Eixample for some touristy stuff, because we have the day off before orientation begins.

Bed time though, keep in touch!