Estoy en EspaÑa

I finally arrived in Valencia around 3 pm their time so 9 am USA time.

First I went to Detroit to fly to JFK, there ended up being about 8 other students from MSU on that flight. We talked at the gate and got to know each other really well. On our way to JFK a man was having heart problems and we had to have an emergency landing in Rochester, NY. We were suppose to arrive to JFK at 12:30 but we didn't land there until 3:30. This meant that the group of students I was with were late for our meeting time at the Iberia Ticket Counter for our plane to Madrid. Turns out that flight was delayed two hours. We left JFK around 8:30 USA time, we arrived in Madrid at 8:30 their time and a USA time of 2:30. Man was I exhausted. Then we got on a bus to Valencia, it was about a 4 hour bus drive but I slept the whole time.

My host mom was at the bus stop waiting to pick me up. She is so nice. She has a car so that was nice not to have to drag my bags all over town. We went to her house and I met her husband, Fernando and one of the boys Gullimero who is 15. He is really quiet but that could be because he doesn't know much English. I talked to Maria (my host mom) in Spanish the whole time, she doesn't know much English. When she showed me the apartment, which is huge, and my room, I could feel the tears coming on. She was making me some lunch and I went to the bathroom and cried. She was a big comfort though, she knew how I was feeling and she made me feel better. I just didn't cry at the airport and then it finally hit me that I was really here and had to speak Spanish. I understand most of it but somethings she says I don't. I am doing a lot better at the Spanish part than I thought I would be.

She took me to get a cell phone. So now I have number and I called my parents. It was good to hear their voices. Well not much else is going on. It's 8 here now and I am so exhausted, I want to go to bed. Tomorrow I have to go to my school and have orientation than I'm sure everyone will be going out. I't's beauitful here. I'm glad I made the decision to come but something tells me that my crying days are not over yet.