Jennifer has made it to her destination, alive but exhausted!

I'm finally here! To the left is a picture of the view from my hotel in Rota! It's so surreal when I realize that this is where I will be living for 8 months! Everything went fairly smoothly too. The most stressful occurrence, believe it or not, was getting through the Atlanta airport. Lufthansa is a nice airline. The flight attendants come by about every 20 minutes with water, wine, and scalding hot toilettes to wipe your hands! But I was very cramped in my seat and I couldn't sleep for the duration of a 14 hour flight due to a crying baby ALL night. But I finally made it to the Madrid airport and waited in intense anticipation for my luggage. The airline mixed it with about three other flights so, of course, my luggage would be the last of them all! I then went to try and exchange my USD for euro, but as it was siesta, the whole airport was completely dead, so I just went to the ATM. I called out for a taxi to get to my hostel and I nice little old man pulled up. Unfortunately, he had never heard of this hostel and couldn’t find it on his map. On top of Friday afternoon traffic, he had to stop and read the map again for about 10 minutes, which ended up costing me 38 euro total! But, my hostel, Residencia La Luna was very pleasant and comfortable. Finally, I took a train, which was really nice, to Seville and a bus to Rota. When we pulled up, my very sweet and welcoming supervisor, Maria, and her daughter recognized me from my photo and introduced themselves to me with the typical Spanish cheek to cheek kisses! She was so helpful. She had already booked a place for me to stay right on the coast of Rota. It's so beautiful here. She also has some apartments available for me to look at tomorrow. I also met my American coworker, Jerry, who did this program last year and had a lot of helpful information. Well, that's the most exciting news for now, I will try to post some pictures I have taken so far and I will update you later!