Arriving in Guardamar.

I’ve never flown and traveled so much in such a short period of time in my entire life! This morning, Lu, Edgar, Jinah, and I packed our bags and left our hostels in Madrid. We called a taxi to pick us up and take us to the Barajas airport in order to catch our next flight to Alicante. We are so pro at traveling now, I feel like. Or, at least we’ve become quite good at reading and following signs in the right direction. Anyway, our flight to Alicante was a short one – only 45 minutes! – and I think we all passed out as soon as we sat down in our seats on our flight. I was listening to Simple Plan’s Jetlag for most of the way to Alicante, of course.

Once we got to the airport, the four of us decided to find something to eat at the airport. We found a small Deli next to Subway (Haha) and munched on some snacks… all the food and beverages were so expensive! Aye dios mio… but, we were so starving and thirsty. We ended up sitting around, letting Edgar teach us some Spanish here and there, for a good 4 hours until we met up with Melissa, Sherry, and Yoshi! It was awesome bumping into each other at the airport. By then, all of us were too tired to really talk haha. But, once 5:30PM approached, we went outside to try to find the bus station. We then met up with most of the rest of the class who were sitting on a bench by several parked buses. We’re almost complete!

We sat and sat and sat for a long while, until Professor Alex met up with us and escorted us onto our Tour bus. It was so exciting to finally see the bus and for all of us to cram into the large vehicle, Hehe. I was way too excited.

We eventually arrived at Guardamar de Segura, where we found our new home for the summer: Pension. It’s a small housing or apartment unit on an old Spanish town street, 1o minutes away from the beach. That’s right, 10 minutes! The professor gave us a small tour of the Pension, the “studio,” and where the beach was. We were all excited to be there haha. It was funny though, as soon as we arrived here, everyone and all the local people have been staring at us like, either raw meat or as if we’re aliens! In either case, we proudly walked passed many Spanish natives and strolled down several of the streets before all of us ate dinner together. Everyone ate together and together we ATE. We were fed so much food, we couldn’t believe how much food there was before us. From bread to ham to tuna salad to vegetable soup to pasta to chicken to fruits… we were stuffed. But feeling much better than we were before.

After eating, we walked to the beach and spent our time there before heading back to shower and sleep. Our rooms are so teeny tiny! It is truly minimalistic. Melissa will be my roommate this summer and it should be a lot of fun! She’s fast asleep now, since she just flew in from the USA today. I know, jetlag will always get the best of us.

Buenas noches ahora.

13. Metros: all stops cost only 1 Euros regardless of when you go.

14. Food and beverages are served in smaller servings, portions and containers.

15. Napkins are smaller, hard and crunchy.

I can just tell, it’s gonna be a HOT summer.