Changing Families

Thursday we spent most of the day changing houses. It was a lil sad at the time, leaving Chloe and everything I was used to. It kind of reminded me of my last day in the states too (never a real settling memory, it was a tough day). But I´m really glad that we´ve done it.

Things are going really great. My new family is awesome. They are so sweet and warm. I have a brother too, for the first time in my life. It´s a little different I suppose. He speaks decent English too I think. He hasn´t said much in English, but once when I didn´t understand the question he helped me out by trying to explain it in English.

I´ve understood mostly everything that they have said. They all speak really clearly and fairly slow too, which a relief. The dad is a physical therapist for handicapped people. Pretty cool job. He travels a lot too. He´s seen about the whole world. He went to the olympics in Athens to work I believe. He´s been to the US, and everywhere else you can think of. He told me he liked them all, but some that he talks about more are Ireland, and the beauty of Argentina.

He´s also tried the foods of every different country. He says the absolute worst is the English, in England. I guess their main meal is breakfast. They eat a ton for breakfast, and then for lunch one of the favorites is a cucumber sandwich! How tasteless! Also they have pastels that may look absolutely delicious with strawberries on top, but then on the inside they´ll have fish or something wild. Anyway... then he deemed American food as the second worse! I hear what he´s saying though. We just have a bit of everything. That´s our style. I think it´s good.

He believes some of best are the french and the japanese. I´m excited though because Montse, my new host mom, and Igor, my new host brother, really like Mexican food!! They are excited for me to make Mexican food for them.

I really like the meals we´ve had so far. Montse is a good cook. She´s really sweet too. She gave me a great idea for a wedding gift for my sister. I can´t tell you all though because my sister reads this too!

So... they have a daughter living in Arizona right now. She´s just 16. I guess it was pretty tough at first, but things are going well for her now. Montse told he she had gained a lot of weight too, like every foreigner that goes to America.

Probably one of the best things about this house is that I have my own computer in my room!! And it has DSL. Tomás, my new host dad, and I set up my webcam, and last night I was able to talk to my parents are MSN and see them too!!

I can´t think of anything else at the moment. I´ll probably be writing a bit more now with this easy access to the internet, but I´m not guaranteeing anything.