Monday, February 11, 2008

A detailed account of the trip and life in Salamanca

So I'm all settled in now, at least as much as can be expected on my second full day. So here's the story of my flight. The plane from Boston was delayed two hours, which meant that I would miss my connection in London, bummer! I´d never been on a delayed flight before and didn't really know what to do. Anyway, I got to London and then had to go get reassigned to a new flight. Which happened to be leaving in 10 minutes. So I literally, and I mean literallt sprinted through the airport to catch the flight. I imagine I looked like a complete idiot. But I made it. I got to Madrid and cleared customs no problem, apparently I don't look much like a terrorist, which is good. But my luggage was not there. So I had to figure out who to talk to and where they should send it. By this point I was very frustrated and very exhausted. I then met the driver who was going to take me to Salamca who was a little bummed that he had to wait in the airport for me for 3 hours. But he was still a good guy. Anyway we headed out to Salamaca at 150kph blasting Eiffel 65 Iḿ Blue da ba di da ba di, and all was well again. So I got to my homestay and settled in for a bit and ate dinner. After dinner I was invited by 2 girls from France to go out to a club with the rest of the people from their group. This was an experience, and I got to display my horrible dancing skills, lots of fun. The interesting thing was that we were pretty much the only people at the club, because it was only 11 and everyone leaves to go clubbing at 1 or 2 in the morning, so I'm not sure I really got a feelfor teh club scene. Anyway it was interesting. Sunday I didn't do much, just walked around the city. Today I had my first classes, which went smoothly and I was placed in the intermediate spanish group, so I was happy. So thats all that happening on this side of the atlantic. Hope all is well back in the states. Please post any questions for me and I'll try to answer them. But thats the update so far. Hasta Pronto.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

did the bike make it man cmon thats the most important peice of luggage

Anonymous said...

so matt, what kind of music were they playing in the club?Was it techno or house cause that would be sweet
!
shawn

Matthew Buckley said...

it was pretty much all techno and some other stuff, pretty sweet. To bad I can't dance.

And yes patrick, the bike did make, and yes it is the most important piece of luggage.