Weekly Update 1: Jetlag Edition
After a day (two days?) of traveling, I have finally made it from my home in Texas to my home for the next year: Spain. The mountains of Cazorla to the east of Úbeda On Sunday, I spent the better half of a day in the skies, flying from DFW to Philadelphia to Madrid. On the trans-Atlantic flight, I was blessed to sit by none other than a fellow language assistant named Annie—what an awesome surprise! We hit it off pretty quickly, commiserated over how crazy the application process was, and compared notes on traveling and speaking Spanish. Once we landed, we stuck together through customs and terminal transfers and had a little breakfast at the airport before parting ways. It was really great to get through the most stressful part of the adventure with someone who spoke English and was doing the exact same thing. Our paths divided in the morning as Annie had to take the bus up north to Galicia. On Monday (now on Spanish time), I took the Cercanías commuter rail directly from t