Meeting Hannah

Day 2

            So my roommate speaks NO Spanish.  I got a phone call from José after I studied in the Parque Maria Luisa, and he was semi-frantic.  He kept saying “Anna (Hannah) habla NO español!”  I said adios to my friends and walked as fast as my legs could go on the dirty Spanish tile streets.

            Meet Hannah: a senior in architecture at Judson Christian College.  Short light brown hair, glasses and severe tan lines from her shoes.   She was exhausted from hotel hopping in Greece and Italy with her architecture class for 3 weeks before.  Her dad was not that different with glasses and a worried look on his face.  This was the first day of a 7 week adventure in a foreign country with a foreign tongue…how would you react? 

            I took Hannah and her dad on an English tour of the city and touched on the rules and highlights that we received through orientation from school.  The first few days took a bit of adjusting to new cultures and routines around the house, but she turned out to be more organized than me.  Imagine that!