It was the first day of school…but unlike the usual first day of dread for a new year of endless assignments and nerves, it was a first day of living in Madrid. I was ecstatic. After our orientation at Saint Louis University, Madrid, one of my roommates and I tagged along in a tour of …

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Everyone acts like packing should be no big deal, that you should start early and end within maybe two hours. Well, packing for me is the definition of horrors. So about an hour and a half before I was supposed to wake up, get ready, and leave for my flight at the LAX airport I …

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