I´m in Spain!

7 December 2008
Hola from Spain! I arrived in Barcelona around 10 tonight and came straight to my hotel so I haven´t seen much of the town yet. I´ll only be here for about a day and a half so I´ll probably take a bus tour tomorrow so I can see everything. I´m a little worried about not knowing any Spanish, but hopefully I´ll get by. I won´t be in Spain too long and then it´s back to France before heading home.

I spent the past couple of days with Flore, a French girl who Elyse stayed with when she went on the high school French trip and then she came to stay with us for a week and a half over the summer. It was really great seeing her again and seeing someone familiar. I met her at her school in Montpellier and went to some of her classes with her. I went to a geography class where they were talking about the U.S. (I didn´t understand much of it), an English class (I understood a lot more), and her Spanish class (I didn´t understand anything). I got to see some of the town where she goes to school and then on Saturday we took the train to her hometown of Beziers. I got to meet her parents and see her house. Her mom made some wonderful food and we ate a lot. I had a nice time with them and will see them again in Paris since they will be going there on the same day I am!

It´s almost midnight here now, so I better get some sleep so I can go out early tomorrow and see the city. I´ll try to write again soon.