January 16 2023

Hi everyone! I'm back in Madrid and the wifi is back at my apartment, so hopefully the blog can resume at least semi-normal activity going forward. Today all the second semester people got to Madrid! (Larissa gets here tomorrow.) Jisenia and I (and Larissa) don't have to go to any of the orientation presentations, as we are already pretty oriented, so today we just met our two new roommates! Alana is sitting next to me and Rose is sitting next to Jisenia. Rose and I actually know each other from high school--we did the IUHPFL program in Oviedo together and lived with the same host family! So it's very exciting that we're back together. Rose and Alana had orientation all afternoon, but we grabbed lunch together before they had to go.

Then Jisenia and I hung out, did some grocery shopping. And we caught up and talked a ton :) Then when Rose and Alana were done with orientation we all hung out in the apartment and went to dinner :)