10/11/10

Well hello there! Ok so I made it to Spain in one piece with only one spot where I thought I might have a mental break down. Madrid is freaking NUTS! Four different terminals that are like 2 miles from each other. No one speaks any english, I have 150 lbs of luggage with me that I was pushing. I only had about an hour and a half to make it through customs, passport check, get on a bus, head to terminal 2, check in, (when I finally found the freaking Spainair ticket booth, pay for luggage (again! rude!) and get through security. I made it just in time and passed out before we had even taken off for Alicante.  I basically pulled an all night because the flight was 9 hours that I was conveniently not used to sleeping, another reason I wanted to cry while at Madrid. So tired. 

But alas, (something about being in Spain makes me want to write all romantic and sophisticated) I made it, with all my luggage, and met Pedro at baggage claim. Benidorm was about 25 min from the airport and we drove along the coast. It is absolutely gorgeous here. Benidorm is right along the coast and has tall buildings for people to live. We are in this cute little apartment. That is really all the info I can give for now since I have not been outside of it yet. 

Right when I got into my apartment and Pedro (one of the owners of the team who picked me up and we both figured out the other does not speak good english/Spanish....ya awkward ride of silence to the apartment..) tried to show and tell me in Spanish how to turn on the water, which keys went to what, (the whole while i was thinking Darnit! Should have paid attention during those 4 years of spanish and while I was living in Puerto Rico. Oh well....) etc. He told me that Rachel, my roomie was coming later this afternoon to move in with me as well. I unpacked all my stuff and got situated and tried to stay awake. My dad told me that I shouldn't sleep until normal bed time hours to better adjust to the time. I did everything I could to stay awake but it was not happening. I took a shower which was an awaking experience because we had no hot water (well we do but Pedro left the part out on how to turn it on. Awesome!) so I stood there shaking my bum off for all of about 3 min as I took the fastest shower of my life. Tried to watch a little tv, realized every single channel was in spanish and about to fall asleep on the coach when i said "i dont care what dad says! I am going to bed." * <--see below about this little fact....

Took me about 30 seconds once I hit my pillow to pass out until about 10pm when my phone in the house started ringing. My roomie was here! Yay. She is amazing, I will fill you in more about her later. We stayed up for a few hours talking, watching a musical (we both like to watch them and sing them as we watch. The wine might have had something to do with that last part too though...) before I was ready to sleep again. 

Just woke up in the morning as we have practice in a few hours. I am nervous but also excited. Also I found out that we have a nice locker room with showers there sooooo I think I will make sure to bring shower stuff and see if they have better luck with hot water. Lets hope so!

Got to make a few phone calls to mom and a friend that lasted all of about 5 min total given the fact that international rates are crazzzzzy. But it was worth it! (I am also not currently paying the bill, so I would say that hehe) Cant wait to see what Spain has to offer. Talk to you guys soon!

Ky

* Now the reason I put this here is because whenever I do not listen to my dad something usually goes wrong. It is 530 in the morning here in Benidorm, Spain and I am WIDE awake because I slept to much yesterday. DANGIT dad, why must you always be right! You are still just as annoying all the way over there in America :)