28.9 at the moment. That's 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Nice! It's pretty comfortable today. I'm just sittin' here at my desk feelin' the nice breeze on my face. My room is pretty breezy with the window and the window out in the hallway open. Yesterday it was hotter when we arrived. Around 90 at about 6pm. Although here on the 8th floor it felt a bit hotter than 90. It definitely reminds me of being in the dorms at camp. Hello anyone?! Arriving on Tuesday and unpacking in those hot dorms... the ratio of girls to boys is about the same here, too: floors 1-2 are the for the boys and floors 3-8 are for the girls. Go figure! Last night by the time we got settled in we were famished and very dehydrated so we decided to go out in search of food and water. After a few unsuccessful tries to find places we finally found the Burger King a couple blocks down the road. More like a couple blocks up the HILL. Water never tasted so good! By the time we were done eating it was after 11pm. But that's completely normal here. They have breakfast, dinner (lunch), and supper. Dinner is later than we're used to and supper is ridiculous - for us I believe it starts at 8:45pm. In Spain and I think most of Europe they eat dinner around 9:30. It is normal for people to eat dinner and then go to a bar and not come home til the middle of the night (or what would be the middle of the night to us Americans). Sometimes on the weekends they go out dancing or something and then stay up until breakfast and then go to bed. Completely normal! The sun didn't go down until almost 10pm either. So that was weird, because it felt much earlier than it was, especially because our internal clocks are still 6 hours behind. I kinda like it though. When we got back to the dorms we got acquainted with more of the girls on our floor. I've met some really nice girls already. :) I went to bed later than I wanted seeing as I didn't nap like others did, but I slept comfortably and thankfully woke up at 7am even though my alarm didn't go off! (If you know me, you know I got very lucky that I woke up on my own). Today we went to our orientation and then to our classes. Classes were short today because it's the first day. In about a half hour we'll be leaving for our Madrid city tour. Our college isn't really in the heart of Madrid so you have to take the metro to get downtown. I'm so excited!
The 'virtual tour' of my room:
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