I am currently at the orientation for the Fulbright Program, and I’ll be staying in a dorm (with Internet) the next couple of nights. There are about 80 young people here – 4 who are teaching English in Andorra (a very small neighboring country). A cultural affairs officer of the US embassy in Spain spoke […]
Just a short note from the hotel lobby as we pick up our luggage and wait for the taxi. After we left our home in Davis, Puck would joke that we were homeless. It is a strange feeling to not have a place to call your own, though staying with family meant we didn’t feel […]
Today (Sunday) was a good day. Our friend Manuel came to Madrid to see us and show us around a bit. We did a lot of walking and had a good time. He took us for some traditional Spanish tapas (type of appetizers), and we walked by the place where they have an open-air book […]
Puck and I have been tucking ourselves in bed around 2 AM here, but we’ve been getting up late too. Today, we crawled out of bed in time for breakfast, and then we took our tired legs back to central Madrid so we could go to the last day of the Renaissance Portraits exhibit at […]
The apartment hunt and first few days