GREAT NEWS. I found a piso! It has two nice bathrooms, very modern appliances, rooms with their own locks and... drum roll please... INTERNET. (cymbal crash) It is not the same one I talked about the other day. It's better. I will put up pictures when I move in, which will be the second week of February. Unfortunately, the food situation is not much better. All I eat is CARBS! Although, I had a fabulous vegetarian meal with Hannah's friend Anna Maria the othe...

¡Hola a todos! Today, I finally saw an apartment that I really like. I am seeing another one tomorrow morning and then I'm going to decide and call them back if its nicer than the one tomorrow. I don't know if I wrote this in my last entry, but some of the people in my group and I went to see Obama's inauguration at the Hotel Intercontinental. Well, the next day, we had our picture in El Mundo newspaper. I will try to find it and post it and I have a copy to s...

I HATE looking for a piso.The apartment search is quite daunting, and Amy, our coordinator, likes to scare the living day light out of us when it comes to housing and safety in Madrid. As if apartment hunting in Madison isn't bad enough, think about doing it in another language… ¡Dios Mio! I think I have decided on my schedule and will register with our director next week. It looks a little something like this: Introdución a la Etnología de América Li...

¡Hola a todos! This past Saturday our program took a trip to Toledo, a small historic town about an hour south of Madrid. As we pulled up, you could see La Catedral perched on top of a hill which was surrounded by a river. The picture is the best one I could get of the city. Although, the city sprawls into the surrounding area. We had a tour all in Spanish, with a two hour break for lunch. I got a vegetarian paella, which was decent, but overpriced (11 euro) an...

I am now living in my homestay with my señora, Pilar. She is housing another girl from our program, Jenni. She is also a vegetarian and we went running in el Retiro this morning. I still cannot get over how CLEAN MAdrid is. The Metro is clean, the streets are clean, everything. The dirtiest place I´ve been is the University. Imagine that. The group went out for tapas and drinks at El Tigre when we were finished with orientation tonight. The bar is famous f...