I'm here!

Let me tell you, travelling into the future is rough. I left Chicago at 5pm, travelled for 9 hours, and arrived at my Sevillian home at about 11am Seville time. My Señora, Isabel Sanchez Martinez, welcomed us three students with air kisses to each cheek. She's 70 years old and could pull suitcases up the stairs faster than us! The first day, my roommate and I focused mainly on staying awake (epic fail), figuring out where we were and how to get places, and putting away our things.

The food. is. awesome.

Sometimes, I wonder if she secretly bought our dinners and just put it on plates before serving it to us. She makes these home made french fries that are BETTER than real fries! And then this delicious ham & cheese crunchy dinner wrap thing that was like a hot pocket only 100,000 times better. And hot chocolate for breakfast. Sorry for rambling, the food is good :)

The next few days were spent making short trips out into Seville. It's unbelievably hot, and regardless of what my insane classments say, it is too hot to be traipsing around town during most daylight hours. It's the kind of hot where you move to any tiny bit of shade so that your skin stops cooking. The kind where you sweat profusely in the shade, the kind of heat where you linger in air conditioned doorways and wonder if you could wear your bathing suit around town. We have to walk across a very long, shadeless bridge to get to school, and every day there are always people jumping into and swimming in the river. One of these days, someone is going to lose it and jump in with them, it looks so inviting! At this moment, it's 11:20 am and the temp is 32C, or 90F.

It's hot.