Today is my first day on an official spanish schedule...we woke up at 7:30 to have a little breakfast and then go see the Cathedral of St. James in Santiago. It was beautiful. I put some pictures up on facebook, but I'm no professional photographer, so I most likely didn't capture it acurately. The history of Santiago is super rich, and in fact we're in the year of Santiago which means the Camino (walk) de Santiago is going on so there are pilgamages of both people from Spain as well as all over Europe to visit the relics of Santiago el Mayor. So it's an incredible time for us to be here.
Traveling here was quite an experience. I left my house at 2 in the afternoon on Wednesday and arrived Madrid about 12 hours later not having slept at all on the plane and then had a 4 hour layover until the 1 hour flight to Santiago. Once we got here we had lunch and explored the city of Santiago a bit so it was over 24 hours before we were able to sleep again, but it was still a great day.
Today I've had a very nice long siesta (nap) and will be going out for Tapas at 9 tonight followed by a night on the town with several students from Santiago that are paid by the program to be our friends. There actually really great, it's just a funny thing.
It's so incredible to be in a place with such rich culture as well as people so different from us. Walking around and exploring some of the bars and cafes, everyone is so open to conversation. This week we're taking some mini orientation type classes, so that should make communicating with other people even better once we get to Madrid. It's just so exciting to be able to communicate with so many different people. We try to speak Spanish as much as possible with each other as well so we don't taint the immersion we all came here for. It's such an beautiful language and culture, and I hope it becomes part of who I am through my time here.
Traveling here was quite an experience. I left my house at 2 in the afternoon on Wednesday and arrived Madrid about 12 hours later not having slept at all on the plane and then had a 4 hour layover until the 1 hour flight to Santiago. Once we got here we had lunch and explored the city of Santiago a bit so it was over 24 hours before we were able to sleep again, but it was still a great day.
Today I've had a very nice long siesta (nap) and will be going out for Tapas at 9 tonight followed by a night on the town with several students from Santiago that are paid by the program to be our friends. There actually really great, it's just a funny thing.
It's so incredible to be in a place with such rich culture as well as people so different from us. Walking around and exploring some of the bars and cafes, everyone is so open to conversation. This week we're taking some mini orientation type classes, so that should make communicating with other people even better once we get to Madrid. It's just so exciting to be able to communicate with so many different people. We try to speak Spanish as much as possible with each other as well so we don't taint the immersion we all came here for. It's such an beautiful language and culture, and I hope it becomes part of who I am through my time here.
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