I'm Here

Well the time has come. I'm in Jaén. I've decided I'm not going to lie in this blog and that I will express all the emotions I feel, unlike my previous one from 2007. And to be quit honest I can't say I'm happy to be here. The day i had to get on the plane I could not imagine setting foot on it, I thought 'I can't possibly be leaving. I emotionally and physically can't leave". Somehow though my foot did step on to that plane however it was not a smooth journey (and no I'm not talking about the terrible turbulence that made me almost sick, haha). I was terrified the whole way. The flight from Minneapolis to Amsterdam was the easiest. The lady next to me moved to be next to her friend giving me two seats to stretch out on. Also on Delta transatlantic flights everyone has a personal tv that they can control. There were games, movies, and a route map to choose from- excellent for keeping my mind off of the terrifying journey ahead of me. Sidenote: 17 Again is sorta cute while My Life in Ruins will make you hate yourself for wasting 1.5 hours on that movie. Arrived in Amsterdam and had a 3.5 hour layover which was occupied by hacking into the KML lounge wifi (they had their internet code on display, come on now!) and going through passport control. Flight from Amsterdam to Madrid was relatively short but the transfer to the train station was the problem. Let me just say that it's pretty hard to walk a train station for 3 hours with two suitcases and a backpack and that it is also very hard to load said suitcases when boarding the train with people shouting behind you because the doors are about to close. Train from Madrid to Jaén was four hours of panic. That's when it sunk it that I was in Spain, and that there was no turning back. I think that's what made me so nervous, the feeling that if it all went wrong that I was stuck (although I now realize that I can just quit and go home). Got off the train (a thousand times easier to unload suitcases by the way) and started walking. As I got off the train I noticed two girls who seemed to be about my age standing there. I wondered if they were perhaps my roommates but figured that they would spot me with all the suitcases and well I'm sure I looked very American. They did not move though so I proceeded to walk outside until I heard someone behind me say, "Irene?". Those girls were indeed my roommates. Very sweet girls and brought me right back to the apartment. Put my bags down in the room and learned how to heat the water (an interesting task I will describe another day). Uff Da it's late and I have to catch a train at 7:30 tomorrow morning to Sevilla. I'll finish it up later but to sum up my roommates are very sweet and nice and I'm still feeling uneasy. *sigh* This is all normal though......