Mi primer cafe con leche aqui

A few basic facts on the beginning of this adventure! The endless & exciting details soon to come, more so after this week of orientation with my job at CIEE's Teach in Spain opportunity, running from now until May of 2012.

September 17, 2011 - We drove up from Harlingen, TX to Corpus Christi in about 2 or 15 hours (oh Dad and that "safety precautions" theory...)! Made it in around 11 pm and still managed to meet up at Chili's with some amazing girlfriends.

September 18, 2011 - My parents and I attended Real Life Fellowship Church in the morning at the Flour Bluff location and was impacted by the amazing message...so fitting. Visited the original Coffee Waves Coffee Shop on Alameda then headed over to the new one on Water Street with some pleasant surprises from friends and family. I got to the airport with an amazing entourage of sorts and had the perfect goodbye. I've never felt more confident about a decision thanks to my support system.

September 19, 2011 - We arrived in Madrid around noon (home is now 7 hours behind me) and headed off to Sevilla on my last flight. I already met a Spanish mother on one of the flights; she has a daughter my age so she watched out for me and gave me contact info.

 The final stop for me is in the province of Cadiz, where I will teach in Chiclana de la Frontera, but will more than likely live in the "Old Part" (full of historic buildings, access to beautiful beaches, and a close knit type of culture) of Cadiz so that we can still participate in an array of exciting local events. I definitely want to see snow in the northern part of the country eventually, explore Barcelona thoroughly, and visit *atleast* the following countries: France, Ireland, Italy, Greece....and in the middle of all that Papua New Guinea is a long shot out of nowhere :) Who's game for all of the above?

I'm really happy about the people I've gotten to meet through this already; they're goal oriented and can definitely relate to the place I'm in with my life right now. I'll always miss my loved ones and great friends back home but today's technology made the transition easier and this time's going to fly by  - BITTERSWEET. On that note, I need to get some sleep because I lost track of that a while back...it's 3:58 pm and 10:58 pm all at once...