MADrid

I'm in Madrid staying with a friend for a few days. I arrived yesterday morning and spent most of the day being very sleepy, trying to figure out how to get a suitcase that the airline lost, drinking coffee, and hanging out with Kim (who I'm staying with ) and her boyfriend. Today was an all day orientation. I really liked one of the speakers who talked about phonetics and using a phonetic approach to teaching languages in elementary schools (and who recommended spelling bees. Yes!)

Tomorrow there is a general strike, so the metro won't be running very often. I'm thinking of spending the day looking up apartment options online.... It's high season for apartment renting, so the prices are high and the apartments are getting taken up within hours of being posted online. Yikes.

Other than that, I'm nearly on a normal sleep schedule already, my suitcase should be arriving by tomorrow afternoon, and Kim's a really great hostess.

Once my suitcase with my pajamas, towel, books, and camera gets here, things should be a bit more comfortable (the suitcase they lost was originally my carry-on. There was no more space in Chicago in the overhead bins, so they checked it through to Madrid. Unfortunately carry-ons have the things you plan to use first....) After that, it's on to the apartment search!

Will write more later once there are more things to write about.....

Buenas noches!