After a good night's sleep, we awoke this morning around 9am. We grabbed breakfast in the hotel which consisted of toasted bread with cheese and ham and a sweet roll, along with some orange juice that had some pineapple juice mixed in with it. It was pretty good. Then we packed up our suitcases which basically meant throwin our dirty clothes back in the bag and we settled down and waited for the directors to call. This however turned into more of a napping session because it took about an hour for them to call, but I can't really complain, I was still tired!! We carried all our luggage downstairs and hailed a taxi to take us from the hotel to take us to los remedios (a different part of the city). It was a pretty short car ride which only cost us six euro in total, three apiece. I guess I should probably mention my roommate as I continue to say we. His name is esteban and he is from Winston-Salem. He goes to UNC also and his dad is from chile which means he speaks pretty good spanish and he can understand a lot. This has been a great asset because my spanish is decent but not great and I definitely have trouble understanding people sometimes. We arrived at the house and we were greeted by our incredible senora, Maria Jose. She took us up to the apartment which is conveniently located on the first floor of the building!! She showed us our room and the rest of the apartment and then she went out to run some errands and we did the same. We both needed shampoo because neither one of us had wanted to sacrifice the space in our bags and we worried about it exploding in our suitcases. We went to the Orange store (the cell phone company) on the way. Getting my phone activated did not
work out as well as I thought it would but we're working on it, haha. After that we made our way down to the SuperSol which is a supermarket near the house. Here, we found the shampoo that we needed, and we were pretty much done with our errands. We returned to the house and began to unpack and get settled it. We also got the password for the Wifi or as the say it "wee fee" haha its pretty funny to hear. Anyways, after that we just hung out in the room until lunch, which was not until 3PM!!! They eat lunch rather late here!! Lunch lasted about an hour and was delicious. It was interesting because it was more or less a three course meal! The table was set with a vegetable soup when we came in, with the soup bowl sitting on the dinner plate. The silverware was set rather formally, including a desert spoon above the plate!! We all ate soup and then we moved on to the second course, pasta. It was pasta, zita or something like that i think, with a maranera sauce that had some sausage in it. It was really good. We also had a salad with it. Finally we finished lunch off with some desert which was actually just some cut up bananas in orange juice. It was an interesting flavor but it was pretty good! After lunch we figured out how to get to EUSA which is the school where we will take some classes. Then we set out, first stopping by to pick up Kali (esteban's girlfriend) and Laura. They are also in the program and they only live a couple blocks from us. From there we headed north and crossed the river. We walked through La Plaza de Espana which was a gorgeous park and an incredible building with an open square kindof thing in front of it. Don't worry, there will definitely be some amazing pictures of this to come!! And finally we concluded our 20 min walk at EUSA. We had an orientation meeting about sevilla, which lasted about an hour and a half, with the entire group. After that I set out with Andy, Elisa, and Christine to find an ATM so christine could get money and also to go back to the Orange Store with everything I needed, or so I thought. We found an ATM on the way back to Los Remedios and then after a few stops at different fountains so that the girls could take pictures, we arrived at the Orange Store, unfortunately for us, none of us had wat we needed. I needed the number to the phone that I have and they needed their passports, so needless to say, I still do not have a working phone and neither do they...Anyways, I'm back at the house now and its 9:40PM and we still haven't had dinner yet but from the sounds I can hear in the kitchen it sounds like we are getting close!! Hope all is well and I'll update yall as soon as possible. Attached are some pictures of the room. The picture on the right is my bed and the one on the left is the end of esteban's bed, our wardrobe, our window and our heater haha. O and it might snow tomorrow, It's supposed to get down to 28F here tonite!! My senora said she has never seen it snow here!! CRAZY!!!!
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