To Torre del Mar

At 2:05pm, five minutes after school got out, Orquid, I, and two other teachers piled into the car of Orquid’s future roommate, Rosario. Rosario dropped the other teachers off on the way to our destination: Torre del Mar. Before we saw the apartment she treated us to our best meal in Spain so far. We had calamari, bocorones, and other seafood I’ve forgotten the name of. All of it was fried and so so good. We also had salad with some really good dressing and wonderful tomatoes.
Rosario’s apartment (and now Orquid’s) is brand new and really spacious. From their balcony you can see the ocean, only 3 blocks away. We didn’t see much of Torre de Mar. We just needed time to recuperate from the craziness and uncertainty of the past few days.

Orquid and I had talked about going to Granada early before our orientation for the program October 1st. It turned out that Rosario is from Granada and goes there every weekend so she offered us a ride on Friday. Since Orquid and I hadn’t known how long it would take to find her housing, we hadn’t made reservations anywhere, so Rosario even offered to help us find a hostal to stay at.