Arriving in Madrid

Well, the flight is long but is fairly interesting. I’ve met this cute girl, Polly Joniae Smith, from Nevada State who is going to go see her friend In Paris and then do pretty much the same thing that I am doing for 10 days. I’m hoping that I can meet up with her and her friends a little later on. We’ll see. As far as the flight, the seats are cramped. (significantly more comfortable sitting next to her as opposed to a 300 lb Spaniard. Delta has come out with some new equipment for these cross-continental flights that I really like. Everyone has their own touch-screen in front of them that comes pre-loaded with new release movies, some t.v. shows, new albums, and Some pretty cool games. You can even make a playlist of the music if you want. (of course I did) It saved me some power on my iPod because I didn’t have to listen to it. It comes with a rather large variety of songs, artists and genres that is pretty suitable for anyone. I didn’t really explore too much into the T.V. section because, honestly, I watched enough T.V. at home. The meal was good. Polly and I both agreed that it was very filling and well portioned. She had The vegetarian pasta, whereas I had the chicken and rice.

There are five other people from my program on this flight. From what I can tell, I’ll be doing a lot of things on my own. They are nice enough, I just don’t think that I will blend in with them very well. I met my roommate, he is a 5’9” jock(y) kind of guy. It is 8:09 AM Local Madrid time. This flight doesn’t actually land for another 1:30. I think I can make it. It seems that they are passing out a continental breakfast right now. So we will see how that is.

When we land, we have an hour or so to collect our bags and meet the ISA rep and he/she will take us to our hotel and then the whirlwind of city tours begin. Madrid, Toledo, El Escorial, Santander. A drug addiction of tours of information.

Our digital map shows that we are over the Spanish isle and therefore it is time for me to get off. 30 min until landing.