Estoy en Oviedo a hora. After the longest flight ever I am here. Well, actually I can’t complain about my trip at all. Everything was on time for the most part and everything was safe. Compared to other peoples travel problems, mine was a breeze.

I have gotten all settled in my dorm now and it still hasn’t really sunk in yet that I am going to be living here for the next 2 months.

We went to our first day of school, well it was more like orientation and it was interesting. It was definately beneficial for me to see just how bad I am at Spanish. No one here speaks english and it is definately going to be challenging.

The schedule here is also going to be hard to get used too. We have school from 9-2 in the morning, then we get lunch, then hopefully take a siesta, then we hang out for the afternoon, then we eat dinner around like 10 pm and don’t go to bed until very late. It doesn’t even get dark here until like 10:30 pm. It is very different.

School is good. I don’t think it is going to be as difficult as I expected because I am taking intermediate classes, and I pretty much have learned most of it. But I am definately learning. Already I feel like I have gotten so much better at understanding people.

We took a walking tour of Oviedo and saw this amazing cathedral. It is so amazingly beautiful, the detail is breathtaking. It was a really cool experience. I learned that all of the center of Oviedo is in Gothic architecture from the 14th century. Its so old and so amazing.

The first night here we went out to dinner and got some good spanish palleya. (I’m not sure how to spell that.) We also had some sangria and it was a good time.

We also got some sidra, which is a traditional Austurian apple cider that is disgusting and tastes like green olive juice…but the guys pour it really cool so its fun.

Well, that’s all for now. I hope you all are doing well and I miss y’all a lot. Its fun here but it would definately be more fun with a familiar face or two. : ) Update me on your lives’. ¡Vale! Se quidados…Habláis pronto!

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