Whirlwind!

I feel like I have so much to write about, it will be hard to put it all into one blog post. I'm adjusting to life in Spain, and honestly, it's been a slower adjustment than I expected. I guess it makes sense, I mean, I really have been in so many places in the last month... Uganda, Scotland, England, the US, Iceland, Paris, Spain... I've heard no less than ten languages and changed time zones a good five or six times within a matter of thirty days. What a whirlwind.

The world really is a beautiful place. Every new place I go, I realize once again that every place has something beautiful about it.

When I say that adjusting to Spain has been slow, I don't necessarily mean BAD. But it has been entirely different from anything I've ever experienced. I expected it to be easy... I mean, Spain is first world, just like the USA, so it can't be too different from my upbringing. And I desperately want to learn Spanish, so I figured I'll just jump right in and start learning, you know?!

I've been here a week now, and I'm just BARELY beginning to understand my host parents when they talk. Their Spanish accent is so different from the Latin American one I learned in high school! I still don't know my way around the city, and I haven't made any Spanish friends yet. I don't know how difficult my schoolwork will be, because we've only had two days of class. And it's been rainy, on top of all that.

But guess what, tomorrow the sun is supposed to shine! And I have some lovely American friends here who want to explore the city with me. And I'm going to meet some Spanish friends, because I have an intercambio to meet with next week. And that will help me get used to the accent here, I'm sure. And once school really starts, I'll have a routine, and that will be nice.

I'm learning to be content where I am. I miss Uganda so much. I think a big part of that is that I KNOW Uganda. I'm now in a new place, where I don't know anything. And I have to be patient. I'll get there.

I'll write again soon. I feel like I'm telling that to a long lost pen pal who I've severely disappointed with lack of letters. Sorry, I promise it won't happen again, I'll write within the week, etc...

But once I sort out my thoughts (in English and in Spanish, hopefully), and once I have some photos to awe you with, and once I have a little more grounding here, I'm sure words will flow quite easily!