Maps, Maps, Maps

Hola,

Today was my second day (first full day) in madrid.  We started off by taking the Metro to our university for orientation.  Since the metro is very confusing and the school is kind of far, we needed a lot of help haha luckily a girl staying with Puri from all semester is still here for one more day and offered to show us around! she explained the Metro and our university to us and helped us a toooooon! so awesome. 

So at orientation, our entire group was there and it was nice to meet all them again and exchange stories. We learned all about the program and everything we would be doing and seeing.  its gonna be awesome :) then the head guy gave us a speech (this part was in english which is huge haha) about how amazing our time could be if we make it that way and lots of other stuff.  it was so inspirational!! during his talk i was like wow, this is so awesome and im so excited! :) he said "the harder the thing is for you, the better the experience it will be" which is soooo true.  if its easy, its not different and we arent learning.  So just because things are hard is not bad.  It made the whole first half of my trip seem way better haha just because it was hard doesnt mean its bad, its actually good and im learning and growing :) after getting our class information, we had a break where we saw the cafeteria in the school and we talked more with everyone.  we then planned to meet up tonight after dinner, so like 11 here because they eat dinner laaaate, to check out el Sol, "downtown" and the areas around it.  Should be good! :) we then got a tour of the university, very small compared to Purdue haha one building with everything it. but the building is very pretty! After the tour, we went back to the cafeteria to eat lunch.  They served us more sangria :) lol and lots of differents sorts of tapas. some were good, others were okay, and a lot were very iffy lol good thing they had a big loaf of bread for each of us too! haha

Me and tricia left there and went exploring! we learned more about the Metro and walked like 4 miles to this really cool park that is huuuuuge! we also did a lot of shopping in these little shops along the streets everywhere, very cool :) and we made it all the way home by ourselves lol we were proud!

More to come! gotta go eat haha :)