Home Sweet Home

Well we made it back to Granada safe and sound, although exhausted and hungry.

The rest of the Rome trip went pretty smoothly. It rained a couple days but I brought my umbrella along. We took a guided tour of the Coliseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill. We learned all about the founding of Rome and the legend of the shewolf that sucked the two brothers, etc etc. We went to Trevi fountain at night and later during the day. There were some creeps hanging around the fountain that talked to Megan and Kathleen (or "Ariel and Susie") but didn't bother the rest of us. We found a nice place to eat gelato nearby that we visited a few times. I tried the nutella, strawberry, coconut, and caramel. I also tried others mint, chocolate, lemon, cookies and cream, and probably a few others. I loved the nutella and strawberry combo. I should've put banana in there too. We also had our usual pizza place where you could get a pizza a drink for 5 euro. We saw the Pantheon and Vatican City - St. Peter's basilica, Vatican museum, Sistine Chapel. We walked everywhere in Rome as opposed to Paris where we mastered the metro system.
I'm really glad all of us get along so well almost all the time. It was a little too much time with them at some points for me. Especially at night when I really wanted to go to bed but they stayed up talking for a while. Or when I'd wake up with the alarm and get ready and they'd keep on sleeping. And not doing some things or eating at places because of money. But whatever. When I think of some of the other people in our group, I'd take my group of friends any day.

We got back home without much trouble. When we got to Madrid, we weren't lucky enough to be allowed to get past security and sleep on the chairs so we had to wait up in the cafeteria for 4 hours until Ryanair opened. We got our stamps and went to wait for our plane for an hour and a half. We saw Elle and Lauren from our group that were taking the same flight home. They were shocked when they found out we had to wear the same clothes more than once.. they would not have survived with us. Haha. Anyways. Made it to Granada and had our taxi driver pick us up. We got home around 8. Waiting for me on my bed was a letter from my grandparents. That was amazing to come home to and definitely made my day. Liz and I put our stuff away, ate some breakfast bars and went to bed until lunch. Had a delicious and FREE meal (well pre-paid but free for us) from senora. Man I missed her cooking! She also told us we'll be getting internet this week which is an amazing surprise! It's going to be great!

I went for a run which felt great after a week of not doing anything. However.. there's rain in the forecast almost every day. It's not raining right now but I'm too full from lunch and we're supposed to go to cafe futbol at 5.

Well if you want a longer explanation of what went on during our trip, you should check out my friend Nicole's blog. She wrote a lot while we were there and afterwards.
www.nikkigoestogranada.blogspot.com

School starts tomorrow. Here's my schedule (which I'm pretty happy with)

Monday and Wednesday -
11:30-1:00 Spanish grammar
1:00-2:30 Oral and writing

Tuesday and Thursday -
8:30-10:00 Spanish art
11:30-1:00 Spanish literature

So yeah that gives me free afternoons and nights which is great! I also have a nice balance with two classes every day.
I plan on starting to go to church. There's a church a few blocks away that Kelsey (the girl who lived here before and is studying here again) goes to. She and I are planning on meeting up for coffee sometime this week and then I'll go to church. Saturday night is a youth thing and Sunday afternoon is regular church with lunch afterwards. I'm excited to see how I feel and fit in there. :)

I'm hoping that there are still spots open for the Cadiz trip for Carnival. We'll check later on tonight. Other than that, I'm looking forward to taking trips to Morocco, Ireland, (maybe) Scotland, England, Greece, Germany (really want to see holocaust places), Romania, and wherever else we decide to go. :)

Alright well.. adios!