La Vida

Not much has happened lately. Weather update: It's monsoon week. It has rained cats and dogs everyday this week. You have to be wet and cold all day at school, which is not ideal in terms of not catching a cold. Ana (my host sister) was quite sick on wednesday, thursday, and friday so she didn't go to school. I still had to go to school though.... pretty boring. I took the AP human test.... not fun. We may go on a field trip next week which would be wonderful. On thursday after school, Emily and I went shopping. It was a lot of fun. Apparently here you need your passport to pay with a credit card. We learned that. At the check-out counter, we were talking to the lady checking us out trying to figure out the passport thing. My spanish was failing abysmally.... We were all laughing, we I looked up the cash register lady was laughing so hard she was crying. My spanish was so bad I made someone cry of laughter :)

Friday night, since Ana was still sick, we just stayed home. We watched the boy in the striped pyjamas (in spanish of course). It was really quite sad. Today (saturday) I've been doing homework. There was going to be a party at Cristina's house, but it got cancelled, so now there's one at someone else's house. I decided to stay home and do homework, because I am currently having a little "oh my god I have so much to do freak out attack." My host dad was trying to convince me that I really should go to this party, because it would be bad to study too much. He was like you can study until 6, and then you can go out from 7 to 2. I was like no I'd really rather stay here. I love how here my host dad is like you need to go out, and at home my parents are a little more for encouraging studying.

Additionally, my family has not ceased to over feed me. It is hilarious. Ana usually saves me though, and is like dad if she doesn't want more don't make her eat more. He literally like tries to take my plate and put more food on it, so I have to like hold on to my plate for dear life and cover it. Haha yah... then he was laughing at me. My host sister's older brother, Pablo, is honestly one of the most hilarious people I've ever met. My host dad, I've finally figured it out, is so much like Mr. Lord! He is very kind and wonderful, but cannot stop talking philosophically about the news, Christopher Columbus, history, math, books, and asking me every 30 minutes if I need a snack.

Now that I have blabbed for 3 paragraphs, I will say farewell.