Host Family!

Heyyyyy.... so yesterday we got our host families.... i wish we wouldn´t have. JUST KIDDING!!!! If life couldn´t get any better... it did! Caitlin and I are in the same host family. Veronica (lady in charge of our program) brought caitlin and i to the ramp to meet them. This is where my story gets good. I started to go down the ramp with my suitcase behind me to greet my host mom. i got to the bottom of the ramp to kiss both of her cheeks but didn´t realize that i had built up momentum from the ramp and my suitcases so i went in for a cheek and just about knocked her over! my cheek pressed into her cheek and i grabbed her and let go of my suitcase so that we could maintain our balance! hahahah then i went to another old man thinking it was my ladies husband and gave him kisses! he looked very suprised when i went in for the kill and learned quickly after that carmen (my host mother) is divorced and that man was waiting for thier host girl with his wife hahaha. I couldn´t stop laughing the whole way back to Carmen´s house. On the walk back to her house I asked her if her house was close to where she picked us up at and she said Si! fifteen minutes later, walking on the cobble streets with luggage still in hand, i turned to caitlin and said in english...¨there´s nothing close about this.¨ When we got to carmen´s house we found out that there was an american boy from miami living with us as well. Joseph is this cute little black boy who is super eager to learn spanish. well actually there is nothing little about him haha, he looks like the football player that mom thought greg was going to look like hahahahaa. anyway, he and carmen are so funny together! she hits him on the arm and he taps her on the head with his water bottle, he speaks very little spanish but he´s always in the kitchen trying to talk to her. he´s only here until saturday which i am very sad about because he is so much fun to have around. Soon after we got there, we ate a huge lunch! and she threw away all of the extra food. Joseph told us that she throws away all of the extra food because its not fresh later. She demanded to know what he was saying to us and we said, that she doesn´t save food. - she got the most disgusted look on her face and said, no it is not fresh! joseph gets really mad because he wants to eat it later when he gets back from the disco. after lunch caitlin and i took like 3 hour naps and then ate supper at about 9. She made a very big meal again! she always has either soup or salad as the first course and then a meat or other stuff for the main meal and then a piece of fruit after the meal. (hear that mom?) I am eating very healthy! After dinner joseph took caitlin and i to walk around that side of the town so that we could get a good idea of where different things were at. On our way back we came across karaoke at one bar and salsa dancing at another. Naturally, we had to go check them both out. The karaoke was hiliarious! these two girls were belting it out and dancing like all of the cameras were on them. Then we went to see the salsa dancing across the street. This was something else! The fast dancing was crazy- everyone knew what they were doing and it looked so cool. The slow dancing... isn´t quite like it is in the u.s. and it is definately not rated G. That was a bit of culture shock but everyone around us kept saying, es parte of ze cultura. We went back and went to bed after this, and this morning had an amazing breakfast. Then, joseph walked us to the school to show us how to get there. so we are here now using the computers because i don´t have wireless in my house and then later our group is meeting here to do different stuff around the city and then we have class tonight. veronica told us to bring sandwiches because we wouldnt have time to go home for lunch, carmen was not happy! she lets us do whatever we want but we have to be there to eat!!!! P.s dont be shy on leaving comments! It´s nice to hear back from people!