Update

So I don't know how many of you noticed (i know aunt Kathy did) but yesterday was la huegla general in Spain, or general strike, where the whole country was supposed to go on strike. This is not the best situation to be on when you're an American student studying in a country that's going on strike but luckily we are all traveling and out of Madrid. So no worries. But we have been reading the papers and watching the news and it looked like yesterday everyone started a protest in la Sol but according to our friends fom Madrid it wasn't as bad as last year and it wasn't really a big deal. So there, nothing to worry about. Besides that I'm in Helsinki right now and we just got back from Tallinn today. Northern/eastern Europe is very different from the Europe we've been traveling around but it's very interesting. We have plenty more to explore too. To get here we took Lufthansa airlines. At first we had some issues with that because we happened to fly on the German strike day and as Lufthansa is a German airline there were a lot of cancellations and delays. So after we couldn't get a hold of anyone Monday night and had a stressful night back and forth on the phone we finally got a new flight Tuesday morning. Trying to do all that becomes much harder when you don't have a reliable phone and you're constantly getting recordings in Spanish. But alas we were off and can I say the Germans really outdo themselves with their airlines and airports. On the flight we got free food, an entire meal! And free drinks ( free food on both flights!) and in the airport they had free coffee! Just overall it was an amazing flying experience. On our flight from Munich to Helsinki we sat next to this girl about our age. Towards the end of the flight Alexis asked her about her bag and they started talking. She said she was from Madrid and was going to visit her brother who is studying in Helsinki. When we told her we are from new York she immediately said I love new york! Me, assuming she meant new York city like everyone else, kind of drifted from the conversation because I didn't really care, but then she said "yeah I studied in buffalo last summer I loved it!" that got my attention really fast. Turns out she studied at canisius college! This isn't the first time wwe've run into someone who has connections to home or knows someone we know. As far away as we are from home I feel like we're constantly meeting people who know people we know or are from the town over or some weird connection everywhere we go. Turns out its just a small world after all.