Today was a pretty busy day! I woke up at 8 and got breakfast with my friends in the lobby of the hostal. We had huevos, pan y cafe. After breakfast we had a health talk with nurse Sarah and then had a 2 hour long lunch. First we went to a little hole in the wall place by El Jardin, where we got a soup with cilantro, chicken, and yuca (a kind of potato), chicken, rice, cucumbers and tomatoes, half of a cooked plantain, and a choice of dessert all for $2.75! Then we went to El Jardin and got gelato. I got coconut because I'm a coconut freak!
After lunch we talked about our host families and what they are like. We received a pamphlet with their information and I was so excited to see that I had a doggy! It's a little shaggy haired cutie! At 5 we got to meet our host families and we were all freaking out. Some of us were tearing up and a lot of us were just so nervous. But all of the host families came into the room and they would come up one by one and say who their child was and we would walk up and kiss them on the cheeks and leave with them to their houses.
My host mom is an angel! Her name is Vilma and she is so nice. She wants me to learn and is all about staying calm and not worrying about everything. She loves coffee just like me and she LOVES La Navidad like me too! Her daughter, Vanessa, is so nice and patient with me. She's so interesting as well! She's been to France, Germany, Colombia, and a few other countries and she knows French as well as Spanish. Vanessa has a nephew that lives with us named Kevin who is 19. He's very nice and has tattoos, which is chevere lol.
An hour after I got to my host family's home, mi mama's granddaughter, Ariana, came over and she is such a cutie. She loves to dance and she loves making jewelry and selling it for $1 lol. She is probably the one who's going to teach me the most Spanish ;P. I talked in Spanish for 5 hours today and it was so fun! I am rusty on conjugations and vocab, but it'll get better. I'm so excited!
Mi mama is going to teach me how to knit and sew, which is going to be amazing! I can't wait lol.
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