My First Night

Trip Start Jan 06, 2008
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Trip End May 2008


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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

I live in an apartment with a lady named Maria and her granddaughter Lucilla.  I would guess Maria is in her forties and I know Lucilla is 21 months old.  I share a room with Julie, who is one of my friends from ISU in this same program.  Maria hosts exchange students as a job in a way.  She is very nice and caring.  She knows no English, and is very patient when conversing with us.  She speaks a bit fast, but clear.  I am already able to catch the just of what she is saying.  In Spain they use a "th" sound instead of other letters which is taking some getting used to.  Maria has two other exchange students here.  A 20 year old girl named Hecho from China and a 15 year old boy name Ciao from Brazil.  Mi casa is actually bigger than I had planned.  There is a small kitchen, nice size living room/dining room, two full bathrooms, and 4 good sized bathrooms.  It is decorated well and Maria has a lot of nice things.
The first night we arrived, we talked to Maria a bit about ourselves, families, school, and home.  This was a little difficult, but between Julie and me we were able to keep track of the conversation.  Maria served us soup similar to chicken noodle, meatballs, bread which is called pan and is very popular, and a cake thing for dessert.  After dinner we played with Lucilla and watched television, or at least tried to.  The show was called "Gente," which means "People" in English, and was about Brad Pitt, Angelena Jolie, Tom Cruise and other known celebrities; therefore, I was able to sort of follow along based on previous knowledge.  After that we went to bed.. Julie & Lucia
Julie & Lucia
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starlagurl
starlagurl on Jan 10, 2008 at 03:56PM

Very nice
Glad your place is nicer than you expected. Keep up the good work!

Louise Brown
TravelPod Community Manager

jessica_caywood
jessica_caywood on Jan 11, 2008 at 11:20AM

hey!
yey!! i'm glad you are writing in your travel log :) did you get your luggage yet?? i'm so excited for you!! hope you are having fun! ~jess

rcaywood
rcaywood on Jan 11, 2008 at 12:58PM

Hi Justine
Thanks for writing in your travel log. I am so glad you like your Madre and the apartment. Did you ever get your luggage yet? How's the Spanish class going? What's the weather like? Are you getting my emails? Try to call me this weekend if you can. Love you, Mom

izzynicole2
izzynicole2 on Jan 12, 2008 at 04:54PM

shannon misses justine
hey so im getting the jist from everyone else's posts that your luggage was lost??? lol. what happened there? And I created this so i could talk to you and seeing as I'll be travelling this summer it will be easy to keep in touch with ppl. I am downloading skype for you so we can chat. I miss you. Learn lots of spanish so you can come back here and teach me. ahahahaha
~Izzy

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