My First Week as a Madrileño Aug 1, 2009 5:21 p.m. The First Week: Sitting here in the middle of el Parque de Buen Retiro (Retiro Park), I finally have some time to sit down, relax and collect my thoughts on what has to be one of the fastest passing weeks in my life. My experience with transatlantic plane flights has been, in general, that you get what you pay for. In this case, the price was right: $400 and no baggage fees (even for my enormous golf/fencing/oh-shit-I’m-spending-a-year-abroad-and-need-lots-of-clothes bag)! Could this really be true? To top it off, my “choice seat” of 19A was choice enough that no one even sat next to me so I could stretch my legs more than a few centimeters in front of me. Besides not sleeping much (who really does
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