After a very long travel day i have arrived at the hotel in Salvador. My roommate is a UCLA grad student in CompLit and was good company on our walk for food this evening. Tonight is the Festa de San Joao and several peeps from the group are going out...i may join, or i may give my post-marathon legs a little rest. It was a perfect temperature today, in the mid 70's with light clouds, reminded me of a winter's day in Hawai'i. Tomorrow it all begins: meeting w/profs., meeting w/families and a mini-tour i think.
I can't believe that it was nearly exactly 10 years ago that I showed up in Spain unable to say my age in Spanish and now here I am again, thrown into it. I love it. We'll do a language placement on Thursday and hopefully that will prove to land me in the advanced course I signed up for :) heee. I feel like I'm in love here already...I walked out of the airport doors and there was a band playing; my taxi driver played forró in the car and we discussed local music; it is rolling, green hills and valleys and I even saw a running path on the drive into town. It is all promising.
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Yeah! You made it - I'm so glad that the country is enchanting you already. I know you'll do great today as you meet your host family and professors - I look forward to reading more!
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