Homestays

 I´m through orientation! Now comes the hard part. I am now in my homestay with another girl Alex. Shes from Georgia and we are getting along so well. At first I was a little bummed to have a roommate. I knew I would not force myself to speak Spanish if I had someone to speak English to. Once I met my casa mom and her son, I could not be more happy to have a roommate!! I think the largest woman in Sevilla is my casa mom... she has a deep fryer in her kitchen and serves chocolate cake for breakfast. Alex and I call her the collector! We feel like those foster kids that are taken in to work and the family recieves money... its kinda like that. We don´t work for her, but she is certainly taking in our good money and trying her damnest not to ever have conversations with us! Haha... at least it gets us out on the streets to practice our spanish??

   After my first week in the city I was ready to GET OUT! I am so used to mountains, to seeing sunrises and sunsets, and that that is just a lot harder to do with buildings all around! I made three great friends during orientation: Kate, Kerry, and Jessica. The four of us have been a force to be reckoned with, all psyched to practice Spanish and do anything fun we hear about. We went to the closest beaches from the city our first weekend here. The area is called Matalascañas and it was so nice to play in the water and soak in some sun. I slept on the beach when the girls went to get some food. They returned to tell me it was the grossest food they´d ever eaten! I guess I should not have been surprised when tow of them missed our first day of school that Monday! yikes.