Estoy en España!

Hola amigos!

I made it to Spain safe and sound as you may have seen/heard via social media. The internet really is a great thing some times.

My days here have been so few but they've already been so awesome! For example, right now I'm sitting out on our balcony writing this sitting across from a beautiful church. I love my life!

I won't give you a boring play by play about each of my days here but I can tell you they've been nothing but great!
Typical day so far:
7:30-Wake up and get ready
8:00-Breakfast! Usually consists of pan tostado (toast) and some fruit and coffee (which I don't drink)
8:30-Leave for school. Although classes don't start until tomorrow we've had a few days of orientations and registrations. I live about 20 minutes away from school so by time I get there I'm already covered in sweat. Because it's approximately 80-90 degrees in the morning.
9:000-2:00-School. Our school is pretty neat! We have a roof (obviously) but on top of the roof there's a little terrace that we can chill out on and look over the city. Only one rule: we can't jump off it. Shocker!
2:30-3:00-Lunch time! Lunch here is eaten way later then in America but it's ok because my mami feeds us well and it's the biggest meal of the day. Also, my mami is a reflexologist so she works until about 4 which is very unusual (I'll explain later) So my roomie, Rachel and I eat when we get home around 2:30
2:00-5:00-Siesta time! No Spaniards don't take a 3 hour nap every day. This is a time in the day when it is literally too hot to do anything outside, so mostly every store closes and people go home for work, relax in their homes, which really aren't that much cooler than outside, and sometimes they sleep for an hour max.
5:00-9:00-Hangout at home, go out with friends, whatever
9:30-10:30ish-Super time! Yes, they eat supper this late. Why? I don't know. Actually it's because it's too hot to eat any earlier and we'd all die of heat exhaustion.
10:30-1:30-Party time! No I don't actually go out and party all the time, but this is a very popular time for people to be out and about drinking, at the club, eating tapas, or helado, and it's great! Although the whole staying up late thing doesn't suite me well, but I'm working on it.

So if you're still reading my very exciting blog, God bless you.

My mami/señora/Maria is absolutely great! She was a little hard to understand at first, but it's getting better! I love her so much already! She's very kind, funny, young at heart, and flexible, and she treats us like queens. She is a single mom of two and her kids are grown and out of the house, she's a reflexologist as I mentioned, she's probably in her mid-50's and she great and I love her. We call her mami. She's adorable :)

I have already learned so much here; slang frases, new words, old words, how the city and it's people work, and it is such an interesting and lovable place. 

God is so good and so faithful.

I'll try to blog every week, but no promises. Just know that even if I don't talk/text/facetime/skype/blog a lot, i'm never not thinking about all of you and I love you and miss you all! Thank you for your continued encouragement and prayers, I feel them all the way over here!

I am so blessed and so grateful and will never lose the light of hope because it shines so brightly.

Hasta luego! Besitos a todos :)

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Wanna come visit or wanna send mail and have me love you forever?
Address is......

Michaela Van Koevering
TCCSevilla
Calle Lagar, 6
41004 Sevilla
SPAIN