HOLA DE BARCELONA

It's 10 PM and I am more tired than I perhaps have ever been. I woke up yesterday a little before 10 AM to finish packing and I haven't slept for what I guess is 32 hours. I'm a zombie, I think, but so is everyone else and we keep apologizing for being boring and falling asleep.

I survived my million hours of hanging out in airports! I did a lot of reading and a LOT of Firefly and a significant amount of trying to get to sleep. Airports are odd creatures.

Barcelona es bello y España es fantástica y caminamos demasiado hoy pero valió la pena porque todo es increíble. Ya sé que me voy a enamorar con esta ciudad. La combinación de idiomas por las calles y los edificios y el tiempo y las playas son perfectos. La navigación será simple muy pronto aunque ahora es un poco complicada, pero todo es complicado a causa de mi cerebro y su funciona actual. Mañana conoceré mi host family.

The only thing is, I didn't really do my research with the program. I definitely didn't expect this much English to be spoken, and I definitely didn't expect people who had never spoken Spanish before to be here. I'm doing a lot of translating for other people and I guess the group dynamic that we have is going to be entirely in English, at least outside of class. I'm okay with that, though. It's not ideal at the moment but once classes start up and I'm speaking more I think I'll be happier.

I somehow ended up here with the wrong kind of electrical adapter, so my computer plug doesn't actually plug into the wall. I need to remedy this. We're in a hotel tonight and I have a temporary roommate so I stole hers, but that's not going to fly in my homestay when I can't steal from anyone. Also my debit card didn't work today at the metro station and I really hope it works at the ATMs here or else crisis. But I'm sure it's going to be fine. Delightful, even.

Also facebook is trying to text a validation code to my cell phone but my cell phone clearly doesn't get texts here and I have no idea what's going on with the internet.

Up tomorrow: bus tour! academic orientation! moving into the homestay! write letters! send letters!

Cute thing of the day: seven (?) year old British kid at the airport said, "I'm just really well acquainted with the swine flu. It's a weird thing about me." :D

And now I will sleep (!!!!) because we're getting a wake up call tomorrow at 8:45. For a meeting that starts at 10:30. I am going to ignore the hell out of that wake up call.