{"id":9741,"date":"2015-06-24T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2024-01-30T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:09:43","slug":"weve-arrived-and-i-never-want-to-leave-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/weve-arrived-and-i-never-want-to-leave-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Arrived and I Never Want to Leave Spain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a journey. I woke up to prepare for my travel at 730 am EST. I was up for a full 36 hours, without feeling completely drained. Every step in my travel I kept waiting for it to hit me; I was going to be in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>At Tampa International it didn\u2019t hit me. In Philadelphia it didn\u2019t hit me. However, on the flight from Philly to Madrid I sat next to a Professora Mexicana. My studying began at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>Travel is always something I wanted to do but never found the time to do it. Now I can\u2019t picture my life without travel. Our host mom made us feel comfortable right away. All of the intimidation I felt prior to the trip vanished at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>Her name is Ana and she is a marvelous women. She feeds us all the meals we eat and I love her cooking. In Spain the meals are simple. It makes you appreciate the core ingredients of a meal. I can\u2019t believe all the things I use to add to the food I cooked at home, it doesn\u2019t have to be that complicated to be delicious.<\/p>\n<p>These next two and a half weeks are going to be so much fun. I love the school we learn Spanish at and I love this city. I\u2019m trying to find out how to describe everything that has happened, just in these first three days. I would have to write a Harry Potter sized novel to cover it all. Pictures are worth a thousand words, hopefully they can communicate what I can\u2019t.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/chase-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9742\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/chase-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"chase 2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/chase-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9743\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/chase-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"chase 3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/chase-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9744\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/chase-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"chase 4\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/chase-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9745\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/07\/chase-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"chase 1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a journey. 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