Spain! (or not)

As I'm writing this entry, I'm supposed to be on an airplane squashed between two complete strangers whom I know absolutely nothing about besides the fact that we are all bound for the same airport. But instead, I'm sitting here at my own desk, in my own house, in Atlanta, GA. Instead of kicking back at a street-side patio at some tapas restaurant in downtown Madrid eating, well, tapas, and drinking sangria, I'm eating a chick-fil-a sandwich and drinking sweet tea. Why, you ask? Because mother nature decided to get moody and cause an outburst of thunderstorms, which ended up cancelling my flight. Not cool. Needless to say, I'm very disappointed right now. I stood around at Hartfield-Jackson International Airport today for almost four hours, only to learn that my new flight destined for Madrid departs on July 1...Sunday! Bullshit? Um, yeah. What puts the icing on the cake is the new 8 hour layover in Newark, NJ. I must say, my study abroad experience did not get off on a good start. But, I must remain optimistic and deal with the circumstances. Perhaps it's life's subtle, or not so subtle, way of teaching me patience...