Day Three in Granada

Day Three in Granada

- We woke up and ate another wonderful breakfast buffet

- After we had to pack up our luggage, leave it at the hotel and head to the Arcadia office for orientation on how to live with our host families

-Afterward we headed to the hotel to wait for our host families!!

- My roommate for the semester will be Julia, she is from Nashville but goes to school in Florida. I think we will get along just greatJ

- Our host mother arrived, her name is Inmaculada . She is very very nice, but talks very very fast. This will definitely take some getting used to!

She took us to her house which was very very close to the hotel and also the various locations of the school which is awesome!! Her apartment is incredible. Everything is so European looking and simple. It is also very big. We basically have the lower half of the apartment to ourselves! Our beds are right next to each other and we each have our own closet. We share a very nice spacious bathroom. It is nice finally being able to unpack our luggage.

- When we finished unpacking we went upstairs and ate the lunch our señora made for us. They are expected to make us three meals every day, which is sooo greatJ apparently my host mom thought I ate chicken, and I felt too bad to say no, so I ate chicken for the first time in over four years today! It was pretty darn good I have to say…She does know that I do not eat red meat though so that’s good! And I will still definitely not order chicken at restaurants.

-Our señora showed us her rooftop and it is incredible. It has a spectacular view of the Alhambra, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the city. She has plants up there as well as lights and benches. It is amazing. An apartment like this in the States would cost a fortune, especially with its location.

-there is an alarm on the house so our señora showed us how to use it which was a very very confusing conversation lol

-After lunch we went to our room, finished unpacking, and took a nap

- after our nap we decided to go back up on the rooftop to take pictures and ended up locking ourselves onto the rooftop because we didn’t know that shouldn’t have closed the door haha! So we were locked up there for about an hour because our señora wasn’t home yet, but it certainly was not the ugliest place we could have been stranded ;)

-Our señora came and let us in and explained to us how we should not close the door all the way when we go out

-she opened up a giant bag of peppers and dumped them on the counter and told us she dries them to make decorations

-we freshened up and then came up for dinner around 9 o clock. We had a very delicious soup. I forget what it is called but it is made with fresh tomatoes crushed up and it is served cold. Very yummy! I also had cookie flavored yogurt!

- we sat around and talked in Spanish for a long time after dinner and then finally Julia and I went out to visit our friends for dessert then drinks! We got frozen yogurt and then went to two different bars. Both were very nice, I had my first “Alhambra” beer, which is the beer typically served in the city I think

-Dov told me I am like a bottle of antidepressants hahaha I was somehow flattered…

- afterward we all walked back to our houses and got ready for bed

-Julia got locked in the bathroom for a little hahah

Interesting things

-I will have absolutely no problem finding gifts here because there is an insane amount of shops with reasonably priced stuff

-I feel like I will spend less on this trip than I did on two weeks in Holland, France, and Switzerland! Everything is so much cheaper here than in those parts of Europe!