Finally in Granada!

I know it's been a while, but I've been very busy exploring Granada! It's a beautiful, very typically European city, with motos zipping down narrow side streets and cute little balconies in every apartment. My host madre is adorable and she makes the most amazing food. The schedule is very different here. I eat toast and fruit for breakfast before I leave for school at 8. The we eat a huge lunch at about 2 or 2:30. Then the whole city shuts down and everyone goes home for siesta. Stores reopen at about 5 and stay open til about 9:30. We eat dinner at about 9 and then go out! We've been exploring the bar scene here in Granada. The city is full of little "tapas" bars where you get a free appetizer with every round of drinks that you order. I haven't been to any of the clubs around here yet, but tonight we're going to try a salsa club called salsera mayor. I'm hoping that its good.

So basically, everything is going well. I finally booked my flight from Madrid to Milan for Paganello!! It was slightly more expensive than I had hoped but flying into Italy for Easter weekend is bound to be slightly pricier than any other time of year. Oh well. I'm planning to travel around in Spain with my friend Caroline for the week before I leave for Italy. We'll probably go to Valencia and Madrid and other places that we won't get to see with the rest of our group.

Um.. what else exciting has happened? I'm speaking a ridiculous amount of Spanish. My roomate, Rachel, and I don't speak English in the house. And every night we watch the news in Spanish while eating dinner. Whenever we go out at night we always find Spanish people to talk to. I already feel like I'm improving my conversational Spanish!

Well, i guess that's all for now. When something super exciting happens I'll be sure to get back here. Please feel free to email me updates about your lives as well!! Ciao!