Up until now this semester abroad has felt more like a vacation that anything school related but it got real today. Up until now I been able to kind of hide behind my other friends in the program who's spanish is far better than mine but we are all on our own now in our home stays with local families and my family does not speak any english.....at all. My host mother is named Josephina and she is a very sweet woman of indigenous decent. She lives about two block away from my school in a very quaint and simple home that I excited to share with her and her family. I'm not 100% sure who else lives there. I have figured out that she takes care of two of her grandsons though and I spent the morning playing various house games with them including hide and seek, freeze tag and small sided soccer in the living room and watching that spanish version of Dora the explorer. Javier is 1 and Jeremy is 6 but his birthday is on Tuesday. I can understand most of what Josephina is saying to me but speaking to her is quite another story. The language barrier is pretty exhausting but Javi and Jeremy make things much easier. I came on this tip already possessing a love for latin american food and I wasn't particularly worried about liking Josephina's cooking but lunch confirmed that I will not have a problem eating her food:) a simple meal of black beans, guacamole, salsa black corn tortillas and sausage (all home made except the black beans) made me very happy.
I start spanish class tomorrow bright and early. 3 weeks of one on one tutoring for 5 hours :/ wish me luck!
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