this weekend, well really the last two weeks, have been quite a language adventure. today i am extremely exhausted, but i feel like i´ve made great strides from where i was to where i am now...
two weeks ago i moved in with my new family. lets just say that has been an adventure in and of itself. they are quite an italian family...so personalities and how they talk are a lot stronger than what i´m used to in my own home. i live in a small two bedroom one bath apartment with five other people, with a dog and a cat. this family loves football (soccer) so i´m getting educated in the World Cup (sadly Argentina didn´t make it to the finals)...and they watch novellas...basically soap operas (haha...language learning right ?). all in all very good experience so far...
my first week with the family was really rough...i don´t know the bus system and i wanted desperately to get out, but the family is extremely busy so i couldn´t just wait for them to help me out. i tried getting together with one girlfriend .... but the day we were to get together ... she was sick. so...my host brother kindly offered to wander the city with me. it was a long beautiful day and i felt extremely blessed. i also made a solo adventure of walking the ten or twelve blocks to wal-mart on my own...just to get out of the house. who knew that a trip to wal-mart could help so much haha.
this past weekend was especially exciting...i spent friday and saturday with a girlfriend in the city...speaking in pretty much only spanish. we event went and saw a movie (Eclipse for all of you New Moon fanatics) totally in Spanish (no subtitles because the ones with subtitles were at a later time). it was interesting. i watched Argentina lose to the Netherlands....but what an experience :) going to an argentine home to compartir as they say ...
then...i went to Paraná, six hours north of Cordoba with my host mom, daughter, and granddaughter. another beautiful adventure! check the place out online...its beautiful! it has a large river and is filled with art, artists, poets, and a beautiful history. its also a city much more calm and quiet than Cordoba and a place i want to go to again.
spanish spanish spanish...wow...is it really happening, my entire experience so far has been in spanish...hardly a word of English. i´m exhausted...but what a great feeling!
soon i hope to post more pictures so you can see what i see :)
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