Saturday, January 23, 2010

In the homestay!

For the past few days I have just been going through orientation. I was in a group of 11 with a guide named Sergio and together we went to meetings about our classes and explored the city of Sevilla. So far from what I can see it consists of tapas, cerveza and tinto verano(red wine with a little bit of carbonated lemonade at the top). Ive been speaking spanish a lot and so far I´ve been able to manage.
My host family:
My roommate´s name is Stephanie, she goes to IU with me. I didnt know her before this trip, but so far we get a long great and where I lack in the language, she can pick up and the reverse. Our host mom´s name is Lola. Shes an elderly lady and its just her and her husband in the apartment. In Sevilla they go by the river, so I´m about a 30 min. walk from the river, but only a few blocks from the school. MY FEET HURT. Our host family has 3 kids of their own, they are all grown up and each have 2 of there own. Today is one of the grandchildren´s 9th birthday so the whole family will be coming over for dinner and to celebrate. Stephanie and I are very excited to meet everyone. Our host family has hasted about 20 students in the past, so despite not knowing a single word of english, they are very patient. She also makes the best food, other than you mom!! :)
Right now our host family doesnt have internet, so I´m using the computer at the university. I think Stephanie and I are going to split the 19 Euros or so per month so that we can have wireless in our house. The only problem is that we get 500 MB per month and that will for sure go quickly with all the computer use I´m used to!

Time for a meeting about my internship. More to come! Missing everyone. Please leave comments if you´re reading, I´d love to hear from everyone!

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