In Granada!

Buenos dias! So 3 flights and a full day of traveling later, we are safe and sound in Granada. After a wonderful dinner with Bekah, Hoss and Mia, we went and watched movies at Kamal´s place so that at max we got about an hour of sleep before we woke up at 3 am so Alicia could be wonderful and take us to the airport. The flights weren´t bad at all because we were all super excited. All of us are doing well except for Kamal who is having an allergic reaction to something. Since we are experts at diagnosing --or because we stalked a doctor at the san salvador airport and he told Kamal so--we think she is having an allergic reaction to some lysol that accidently got into her eye Saturday night. We´ve been flushing it with saline solution but if any of you medical students reading this have suggestions, let us know! We´re going to try to find her a doctor here this afternoon. Other than that, there haven´t been any problems thus far. A taxi met us at the airport from the language school and the hour drive from Managua to Granada wasn´t bad at all--reminded me a lot of India actually. Kristine and Kamal are staying with a family that lives about one block away from the family --Francisca and her husband and daughter--that April and I are staying with. Before my lesson this morning, I just looked at everyone speaking Spanish and smiled awkardly! And ofcourse used the three phrases that my wonderful travelmates had drilled into me during our flight--no habla espaniol being the most handy thus far! We´re having a great time and have access to internet at the langage school so please keep in touch!

hasto luego,
Harneet

ps--the language school has a resident gato and our host family has a perro...and those of you who know my ´love´ for animals know how I feel about that! haha. oh and our host family has a papagayo too...and I swear I heard a rooster this morning! haha =P