The past few days have been spent organizing our few belongings, as well as becoming familiar with the city. Some of the students from the university we will be attending, Universidad de Extremadura, have been taking us around to show us some history as well as places to shop, eat and hang out. We start class tomorrow and I must say I've never been so eager to learn. I am absolutely loving every bit of this and cannot wait to see how the rest of the semester u...

Wow, we're finally here! After arriving at the Madrid airport, along with both of my pieces of luggage (yay!), I found my way to the Food Gallery where I met up with all of the Iowa State students. There we sat and chatted about our flight experiences, our lack of sleep from the previous night and what we anticipated this semester would bring us. I arrived in Madrid at 10:05am, 3:05am states time, and we left by 1:30 when our advisor, Toni, arrived to greet us...