Day 1 part 1:

I ended up having to get ready in the dark because the lights didn't work in the hotel but I didn't really care because it was only one night and I was leaving. Took the shuttle at 6 am back to the airport to checkin and take my last plane to Granada. I got there at like 6:20 and the plane didn't leave until 8:50. I'd rathe the early than late, that's all I know. To get through customs I stood there and finished drinking the last of he water in my water bottle so they wouldn't take it away. Customs was fast though since it was super early in the morning. I walked around and ended up eating breakfast. I had a chocolate croissant with chocolate sprinkles on top and a sunny D. Ended up sitting down in some random area next to a screen since they still didn't have the gate for my flight posted yet. Time goes by and nothing interesting happens. When I saw that they posted the gate I walked over to it and sat down. I saw some people talking in English and soon after decided to join them and not sit alone. Not even 5 minutes after I sit down, 2 people from ISU came: Katrina and Colin. Finally familiar faces! We got on the plane and took our seats. It was supposed to be 45 minutes long, and the time went by fast. I was just staring out the window look at the land from the airplane. When we got to the Granada airport, which is small. We walked down the steps from the aircraft and over into the building to get our luggage. The baggage claim area reminded me of the Algerian airport. It took awhile for our stuff to come off the plane. I looked outside of the exit doors and saw someone holding a CEA sign above the screen and peeking in the space between the glass and the pole. And then he waved. Only 3 other people saw it and we were like, "what?!" Once everybody had their suitcases we all walked out to meet Jorge and Dani. Jorge was wearing a green and navy striped shirt that reminded me of the guy from Blue's Clues. But umm, Dani was kind of cute. Dani showed us the way to the bus and everybody was turning around and I just walked in a straight line and ended up being in front of the crew. Out of all the people (some girl had 2 large suitcases and was rolling them herself) Dani decides to help me with mine. We started talking (in Spanish obvi) and then he says "your last name is Arabic, no?" And I was like woah, how does this bitch now? But not really calling him a bitch. More from surprise. And I didn't want to explain Berber because I don't really know how to say it in Spanish. He helped everyone put their stuff in the ALSA bus, which is like the Peoria charter only blue and green. There were so many people in the bus. When the guy who sat next to me got up for his stop, Dani (who was sitting on the stairs because all the seats were taken) came and sat by me so we chatted it up some more and he pointed out places as we passed them. Like the place where they have the bull ring, the hospital, the tallest building in Granada. And I taught him the word skyscraper because he called it sky-raper, as if it rapes skies. I thought it best he not say raper. We got off the bus and met our host families, they were at the bus stop waiting. I'll leave it at that because I have to finish my breakfast and start the day.