Estamos en Granada!

Hey!
First of all, sorry I haven’t really written at all since we’ve arrived here…I’ve been insanely busy trying to get from one place to another, etc. and it’s been hard to find a lot of time to actually sit down and write on my blog. That said, I’ll start from today so I don’t have to recount pages of things that we did in Madrid which would take forever. To put it simply, basically all we did in Madrid was sleep and walk around a little, since we were so tired and jet-lagged. But today, we took a 5-hour bus ride from Madrid to Granada. It actually wasn’t bad at all since I slept a lot of the time, and there was pretty countryside to look at. It was a relief for all of us to finally get to Granada and to know that we’re here now, and can maybe sort of start to get into a routine in the near future. We’re staying at a cute little place called Hostal Antares in Granada. It’s like a 10 min walk from the Alhambra. I haven’t been out much to walk around Granada yet since we just got here, but I know I like it way more than Madrid, which is more or less just like any big city, although there is some really neat architecture. We were going to go our for tapas tonight but were so hungry from our travels that we went out around 7:30, so there wasn’t much in the way of restaurants open, and the tapas places we checked out didn’t look too substancial. We found a little sándwiche shop instead which had yummy turkey and cheese sándwiches for 3 euro.
The Spanish-speaking is going alright. I’ve been trying to be good about asking locals things in Spanish and it’s definitely getting much easier, but it’s often still really hard to follow what they’re saying. Hopefully it gets better, though. Tomorrow, we’re off to meet our host familias—this will be both scary and exciting I think, since we don’t know what to expect at all. Hopefully, however, it will be good, and we can begin to settle in. Well, I think we’re all going to head off to bed soon. It’s actually Only 9:45 here but we’re all completely exhausted. Adios! Take care and talk to you soon!