My Trip to Almería!

¡Buenos días!

This past weekend I travelled to Almería to visit my host sister, Maca, and her boyfriend.  My bus left on Friday right after work, at 1:30 PM.  I took a bus for about 4 hours and then I got on a train for another 4 hours, where Maca met me in Granada.  It was wonderful to see her!!!  We met up with one of her friends that I knew from two years ago, and the three of us went out for tapas and drinks.  We were having so much fun that we stayed out until 6:30 AM, and then decided to drive to Almería afterwards!  We got back to her house around 8:15 AM, and were finally sleeping by 8:30 AM.  Needless to say, the next morning we slept the majority of the day.  When we finally got around, we took a walk along the beach (which is right next to her house), we had coffee, and we walked around the city so that I could see everything.

  On Sunday, Maca's boyfriend (Antonio) and I drove around to the nearby cities.  We drove along the coast of the Mediterranean and it was absolutely gorgeous.  We also went to visit Maca in El Ejido, where she works as a police officer.  We were able to have coffee with her and walk around the city a little bit.

My travels coming home were a little bit of a hassle.  I missed my first train, and the next train didn't leave for another 5 hours.  I left Almería around 2:45 by train, and then I only had 15 minutes to hail a taxi and get to the bus station in order to catch the last bus to Cáceres.  Luckily, I made it there just in time and the bus left about 30 seconds afterwards.  I arrived back in Cáceres around midnight, worked on my lesson for the next day until 2AM and then was waking up to go to school at 6:30 AM.

Despite the hassle of all of the travels, my trip was amazing.  We had so much fun together and I am so happy because this time my spanish is much better and we can actually have in-depth conversations that we weren't able to have 2 years ago.  It was really hard to say goodbye again, especially with her living so far away from Cáceres, but I know that there will be many more opportunities to see her again--especially when she comes to visit for Christmas!

I hope everything is going well in the States.  I miss you all!

XOXO,

Kate