One Week Down

Well, it's been a week since I arrived at my host family's house. This week has been very good at times, and also very bad. I feel like each day my spanish gets a little bit better. I still can't understand a lot and always are asking people to repeat and talk slower. This really frustrates me, for I just want to reach the point where it all just clicks (I still have awhile until then though).

I finally got my uniform so I won't stick out even more than I already do. My main focus in school is to just learn the language for now. One of the best parts of this week was with these three little 9 years old girls. They kept walking past Claire and I's classes to look at us. Finally, one day in the lunch line we saw them whispering and looking at us. They finally ran up and started talking to us. It was adorable! They always come up to us in the lunch line now to talk to us, and whenever they leave they always give us a kiss on the cheek. I love seeing them in school, for they always smile really big and get so excited. They've even tried to set up play dates with us to meet them in the library during break. Unfortunately though, our break times are not at the same.

This weekend I went to Claire's house to work on our song for English class. All the students have to sing a song in English, but we have to sing ours in Spanish. We chose the song Vivir Mi Vida by Marc Anthony. After, we watched some of the olympics with her host family, and then hung out and talked with her host brother Javi for awhile. Javi, Claire, and I had a lot of fun just hanging out and talking (mostly in spanish) together. Claire and I then went to see American Hustle. Javi couldn't come because he had to study. When he told us this, Claire put an "L" on our forehead jokingly making fun of him, but him and his little brother Dani had no idea what that meant! We thought it was funny, but we explained to them making and L on your forehead signifies someone is a loser. Anyways, American Hustle was in Spanish, therefore we barely understood what the movie was even about. I still thought it was good though, mostly because I loved all the actors in it, especially Jennifer Lawrence!

My host family has been very nice! They have made me feel very welcome into their home. My host dad knows I like the show Doctor Who and found when it will be on TV so I can watch it in Spanish, which made me very happy. I also showed my host sister Sonia the game flappy bird, and now the whole family plays it!