I've now been here for 3 weeks, which qualifies as real life and no longer can be confused with vacation because a vacay would be over by now. It's a different feeling than in the first week or two when everything was a kind of blur, and didn't seem permanent. I have now been to Carrefour to grocery shop, which is like the Sam's Club on steroids of Europe, so I now have an abundance of comida (food), making it feel more like home =] I've cooked quite a few meals, and done a lot of laundry (which over here does not involve a dryer... love/hate relationship with that fact.) On February 1st I'll be able to use my unlimited metro pass, real resident-status right there.
The best part of having a life here is that Kelsey and I have joined a community group through http://oasismadrid.org/ and we meet every Monday night at a flat. We have a pot luck style dinner and then have a book study on Tim Keller's "Gospel in Life." The people are wonderful, a mix of American, British, Irish and Spanish, and everything is done in English. I've been on this church's website/ getting the newsletter/ communicating with one of the members for the past 4 or 5 months, so it's really exciting to finally be here and be a part of a body of Christ.
Life here is good, I'm incredibly blessed and I'm glad I've begun feeling I really live here =]
i feel you on the love/hate relationship with laundry. Do you use radiators to dry stuff?
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