Im here! Im actually living in spain. Actually in my own apartment, in spain. WOW. Its all happened so fast. I feel like I have been here for weeks but it has only been 5 days. I will try to make this short – but so much has happened that its hard. I will go ahead and list the highlights of each day.
Day 1. The beautiful bus ride from Sevilla to Motril led to high expectations and being very let down. Motril is not that pretty, who knew? Meg and I walked through motril STARVING and no places to eat. Motril also completely shuts down from 2 – 4…no tourism, who knew? Oh, also we met up with Andrew – a fellow CIEE teacher who is great and now one of my roommates!
Day 2. Apartment searching begins. And more importantly, searching for the beach. On the way to the beach we met our Romanian friends who not only directed us to the beach but also ended up opening up their home to us, their homemade whiskey, and helping us search and call about apartments. It was a hilarious and great experience. One of them, Pepe, the closest to our age, plans to take us out on Saturday. We are all looking very forward to this and seeing what the nightlife of Motril has to offer.
Day 3. More apartment searching. We saw a place in the morning that we all felt very good about (now our apartment) but wanted to keep options open. We ventured to Salobrena which is a beach town ten minutes from Motril – it is beautiful. And not only a ten minute bus ride away but only 94 cents, to be exact. We all fell in love with Salobrena and plan to visit often. We saw more apartments and decided we would be stupid to pass the one from the morning up – we planned to meet Isabel (our new landlord) in the morning. The night ended by ordering WAY too much food at a bar – apparently waiters in Spain don’t feel the need to tell you when you order enough food for 9 and you only have 3 people. Live & learn.
Day 4. We signed a lease. In Spanish. In Spain. And handed over quite a bit of cash to our landlord. It was a very scary process but we made sure to look over everything in writing before. And here we are! In our apartment! It may look like an 80 year old lives here but in fact, Meg, Andrew and I live here! It’s a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment in the center of Motril…very close to all of our schools. It was a very good price and although our landlord is a little crazy we think that she will be good to us. We got our keys, moved in, bought sheets, groceries, got situated, etc. A huge weight has been lifted and now we only have a few more things to go to become official residents.
Day 5. Things start breaking. So our perfect apartment is not so perfect. We are discovering the stove is very, very slow. The thing that makes hot water isn’t working. And one toilet flushes very, very slowly. Our landlord is already planning a visit to fix things. We are still loving our apartment but are realizing it’s definitely not perfect. Next up: La playa. Now that we have moved in we can relax a little and enjoy where we are before school starts!
I miss all of you and love you so much.
Keep in touch and send me emails!
Mil besos
Also, cell phone number: country code (34) 655 090 580
My address:
Calle Alonso Terron Nº 1
3º D
Motril (Granada) 18600
Spain
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