Arrival

I'm officially in Barcelona. I flew from Chicago to Madrid and then had to trek across Madrid's enormous (but seriously cool) airport to my connecting flight to Barcelona. Now I'm sitting in a Starbucks (of course) using their free internet to update my life. I'm feeling much more comfortable now that I'm here and have met people I know. My Spanish needs a lot of work, but, like a dork, I made myself flash cards. Barcelona is beautiful. I gravitated toward the ample graffiti, since I spent all summer observing the graffiti of Chicago from the EL.  Tomorrow we begin to explore and I'm looking forward to spending time with the other people in the program. Fingers crossed I don't have jet lag!