What a wonderful day this was!
Today I was actually able to sleep in… till 10!! Whoop whoop. I started out my day by writing my New Years Eve blog and talking to friends and family. Production at its finest I would say. I chatted with my host mother for a while as she wanted to know what I thought about New Years Eve and how it´s different from the United States. It´s still hard to understand my mom because everything she says is extremely fast and I can´t pick up any of the Spanish. Even with my previous years in Spanish, nothing has come back to me from it. Hopefully it comes back soon. There is a lot of sign language that goes on in the house. It´s a good thing Marcelo is there most of the time so he can be our translator. My mom then had some friends over for tea which was kind of awkward because once again, I didn’t understand them when they tried talking to me. At 3 Marcelo took me into town and showed me where the CEDEI School was and how to get there. It´s about a half an hour walk but is a straight shot to school. This half an hour walk could get old but at least it´s good exercise. When we got to town, the whole entire place was shut down. It was nice to see that even in a different country everything is shut down so everyone can be with their family on New Years. On the walk back I was able to get to know Marcelo a little more and what he likes to do besides what the CEDEI report was on him. He likes music a ton including Korn which made me laugh pretty hard because I was definitely not expecting him to like American music especially Korn! He also taught me a little bit of Spanish. More of the basics but hey whatever helps. We got back and had dinner. A delicious meal with eggs, tuna, rice, and corn. My mom is a fantastic cook but good lord does she give me a ton to eat. After dinner, I went upstairs into my mom’s room since she is the only one that has a TV in the house and watched the “Hunger Games” with Marcelo. It was a very nice relaxing day but I can´t wait to be back at school to see my group of friends and to hear some English again.
