Day 2

Hello!

Today was my first morning to wake up in Madrid. I took a lovely shower, though a quick--we aren't supposed to use the water for very long and are really not supposed to leave lights on when we aren't in a room. We had a breakfast, prepared by our very nice Sr, of corn flakes and coffee.

Then we took the 15 minute walk to one of the two trains near our house. The Metro here is clean and lovely and I have yet to see one homeless man doing anything vulgar. We were almost late to school because once we got off the train we had no idea where to go. We asked several people for directions basically each block until we made it. The school is made up of two little buildings separated by a courtyard.

This first day of orientation was basically just "how to buy cell phones" and "how not to get pick-pocketed". After another dinky walking tour (why have both been so dinky?) we all went to a restaurant (in a mall) and got paella ("on" NYU). After that, a friend of mine named Maria and I wandered around literally for hours looking for cheap champu (all of the farmacias were charing $15 for little, tiny bottles). We finally found some, then bought phones (easiest process of the day) and then searched for more hours for an outlet/electricity converter.

More tomorrow!