Day 1

Hello from Barcelona!
I got here around 9 this morning, got to my hostel around 10, and have spent the last 3 hours aimlessly wandering the city (slash reading my book), as I have to kill time until 2:30, when my room will be ready. So far - I heartily approve. I spent my morning drinking coffee and reading my book at a cafe, where I watched an old homeless woman get dragged away by the police. After about an hour and a half of that, I relocated to this big park-filled street, where I read my book at intervals between much more serious people watching. Also, I have ALREADY seen someone in a UO shirt. Small world much?

Well I don't really have news, except that I am here and safe and, as expected, extremely rusty at Spanish. No one has understood me the first time around yet. Good sign...
I sat next to the same Spanish family on both flights (weird, right?) who were very nice but their son who was next to me was sniffling the entire way. Thirteen hours of listening to a 15 year old blow his nose. Fun. But! How random! The Thin Man was one of the movies available on the plane! I had fallen asleep in front of it the night before, so I got to finish it, which was great. Um... that's all... again, I'm really just killing time, so I apologize for the boring content of this post.

[Later that day:] Well my room is fantastic - apparently "shared bathroom" means you have a sink and shower in your room but you share three toilets with the four other people in the section. And my hostel is just very cute overall. Well decorated. Kudos to Hostal Girona. It's not really hostel-y though. It's pretty much a cheap hotel. Or an expensive hostel with individual rooms? I spent the rest of the afternoon eating, wandering and napping, since I don't really know what else to do. I left around 7 to find a place to grab tapas, and ended up wandering around for so long that I have no idea where the place I ended up eating is located, and I don't think I will find it again soon. I think that I am going to call it a night, but tomorrow I meet my host family, and find the study abroad center, and start freaking out about classes and placement exams! Very exciting!

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Will I blog while abroad? Only time will tell.