1st night in Valencia

June 25th- Spain time

We arrive to Madrid after what feels like the worst and longest plane ride I’ve ever been on. And I am SO happy to be on solid ground. Flying into the country was amazing because we could see so many mountains. I never realized how mountainous this country is. By now my feet and hands are swollen and on top of that I am trying to brace myself for this 4 hours bus ride to Valencia which I wouldn’t have been upset about it we weren’t flying from Valencia to Madrid on our way home. But the bus ride proves to be uneventful we made one stop in a place that I can only categorize as La Mancha. I’m not even sure that is where we were but there were so many windmills when we got off the bus. We got back on the bus and I have what is probably the most amazing 2 hour sleep that I have ever had on the bus…weird right? But finally we are in Valencia!!!! And I was a little nervous to get off the bus and meet my host mother. Me and my housemate Danielle (whom I already knew to a certain extent before the trip because we have a mutual friend) get off the bus and she is very welcoming in her one-kiss-on-the-left-and-right-cheek kind of way. We got to her apartment, (or this might be a flat…I’m not sure but it is very nice)claimed our rooms, and settled in. She took us on the bus route to school so that we knew how to get there in the morning. It was a weird first night because we couldn’t go out since we didn’t know where to go and we missed all the people we had met in the airport/ on the way here. But that was pretty much it for Wednesday since we arrived in Valencia about 5pm.

Note: It doesn’t get dark here until like 9:30pm it’s really crazy!