New apartment

I've already found an apartment and am happily moved in! Before I left for Spain, after talking to various people from Sevilla and Spain, I had decided just to wait until I got here to look for apartments, and luckily it worked out just fine. I found my apartment using a Craigslist-like website, and it was actually the first one I visited.

My roommates are Alba, who's in her last year studying law at the University of Sevilla, and her younger brother Alfonso, who studies environmental studies at Pablo de Olavide (where I am this year). They've had this apartment for a few years and have rented out this room each year to different study abroad students.

When I moved in, Alba had a few friends visiting - a French girl (whom Alba met through one of her past roommates) and her boyfriend, and a Spanish girl who had also previously lived with Alba. They're all so friendly and let me hang out with them, and it was fun hearing a mixture of Spanish, English, and French. With them I went one night to La Carbonería, a really old bar/flamenco/music place in the center of the city, and another day went to the local market to get seafood and veggies for the paella that one of the girls prepared!

Paella

So my roommates are very friendly and accommodating, the apartment is very nice and furnished with lovely Ikea furniture, and I'm close to the metro and plenty of stores, restaurants, and bars. Very happy with the apartment!

And Popi the pet turtle...who Alba found on the road :)