Jan, 19 2007

WOW

I’m here.

That’s really all that I can say. It’s about 10 o’clock at night and we just finished dinner. I have all of my things set up how I think I want them and I am here. My “Padre” is very very nice. He lives here with his mother who cooked us chicken noodle soup, salad, chicken, patatas fritas (French fries) and for dessert fruit o flan. I chose the fruit.

The coolest thing is happening right now as I write this. I normally write my blog in English but I am sitting here and it is really just flowing in my head in Spanish. It really is taking a lot of effort to write in English, but I know that I promised a lot of you that you would be able to read it.

One more really important, but very unexpected thing.
I have an “hermano” also. His name is Jack and he’s also from the United States. On the drive here though, Lluis (seriously, it’s all just Spanish in my head!!) told me that he only wants us to speak Spanish in the house. I think that it is going to be very difficult and Jack has already spoken to me a few times, but it will be good to have someone who has been here a few weeks to show me around. He said that he’s normally out until about 7 am though. Sounds just like me huh?

Molly, Sarah and I spent the day “rambleando” through the streets of Barcelona. It was incredible, we got to see so much of the city. On a map it seems soo big bit in just under 5 hours we were really able to cover probably 10% of it. Haha

I’m going to include a to a map of Barca so that you can all have an idea of where I am, and where I’ve been.

I’m really just too overwhelmed right now and can’t think of all that much more to say but I expect to have much more from now on.

Unfortunately I don’t have any wireless networks accessible from the apartment so I’m going to have to just write daily and post when I can. I’ll be sure to try and include dates and pictures of the days events as best I can.

As you can probably tell by the length of this post, I’m just really happy/ excited for the next four months. Lluis already told me that he thought that my castellano was really good. He’s had to repeat things a few times, but he has already been really helpful.

New Word of the Day: despertador- alarm clock