First Impressions of Bilbao Continued

So today I had a new first...I took my first metro/subway ride! At first I was nervous, but we ended up riding it so much today, by this evening I was feeling like an old pro. Summer and I met up with the other Bilbao girls: Arielle, Brittany, and Natasha this morning and took a little walking tour of Bilbao with our site director. I love downtown Bilbao! It is clean, and beautiful and perfect...probably the most beautiful city I've ever been to. All the buildings are old and sort of french looking, and three sides of the city are bordered by rolling, snow capped hills and the other side faces the sea. There is a big river that splits the town in half; the new part on one half, the old part or casco viejo, on the other. People seriously fill the streets even in the middle of the day, and the shopping is amazing! The only hard part so far of living here is the fact that we're 25 minutes away from downtown by metro, and a ten minute walk to the metro station on top of that..making quick trips to town complicated.

Tomorrow we're doing our orientation at the university and get to meet more international students studying there!

Casco Viejo

First Impressions of Bilbao Continued

Bilbao, Spain