New Flight

Due to the fact that British Airways is on strike from December 22nd until January 2nd, I am unfortunatley going to have to cut my study abroad a little short. Now, I will not be able to go on the trip my friends and I booked to Florence and Venice. My parents had to purchase me a brand new flight for this Sunday, December 20th in order to ensure that I would be coming home and not stuck here until the 2nd. The past couple of days here have been pretty crazy: not knowing if I would be able to come home for christmas, changing my flight, trying to get a new ticket to Madrid, having to keep in touch with my parents the whole time, while taking all my finals on top of it! My senora has been awesome though. She said that I was more than welcome to stay in her home until January 2nd if thats what it came to. She was even excited for that fact that I might be here for Christmas. She kept me calm, and kept assuring me that everything would work out..just like a normal mom=) But now, all is settled. I will be leaving Granada at 1:30am on Sunday (more like saturday night). I have to take a 5 hour bus to Madrid because of all my luggage, then my plane will take off from Madrid at 2pm flying to Boston. I then have another flight from Boston to Chicago. Im kind of nervous to travel alone again, especially with the amount of luggage I have, but after traveling alone to Paris, I think I can do anything. i am getting pretty sad about leaving Spain, Charo, and ending this amazing experience. Its absolutley insane how fast 4 months went by.

As much as I do not want to leave Spain, I am very ready to see everyone!! I truely believe that 4 months is the perfect amount of time for studying abroad. The past couple of days is the first time I have really been home sick. Of course it has to do with the uncertainty of whether or not I was coming home for Christmas, but I definitely am ready to get back to a scheduled life and be with my family and friends. Well, I just wanted to inform everyone that I was coming home a few days earlier, and that everything worked out with my ticket! miss you all and I cannot wait to see everyone!!


ps.I will be posting my blogs for paris, amsterdam and london before I leave Spain! Now my last task is to fit everything I have bought into my suitcases...should be an interesting day...