Wow, its crazy that just over a week ago I was sitting with
my best friend Callie speculating how my time in Spain would go(who doesn’t
read my blog -_-) ! Not to much has been going on. I did make my first friend
though! I mean if you consider a 10 minute conversation in English with another
Nanny a friend…Unfortunately she’s only staying in Novo Sancti Petri for a few
days.
It’s a little weird going on Facebook and seeing what all of
my friends are doing and realizing that it’s going to be like this all summer.
It makes me pretty sad, but then I remember what my dad said. I’m on a Friend
Fast! No drama, nothing to really think about, when I’m sitting my mind just
kind of goes blank, or I start repeating Spanish words in my head over and over
again. I have ample free time. It’s weird for me, I’m usually one of the
busiest people around. I mean the last time I had an hour where I just sat and
watched TV? I don’t even remember. But here I get to sleep in until 10 or 11
everyday. Then I wake up, tell the kids to make their beds, help prepare
breakfast. Eat. Then relax again, go to the pool and go on my lap top, read a
book, then I help make lunch, then I relax again, then I help make dinner and
then I relax again until my nightly run at 10:30 and then I go to sleep. It’s
like everyone’s dream job. My goal is to get through all the books my parents
wanted me to read. So far… I haven’t gotten through 1.
So it’s official. I can’t cook. But something in my ambitious
mind told me I could, so in vain I offered to cook the family “American Food”.
Well anyone who knows me well enough can only imagine how that turned out. The
first night I cooked hamburgers. I literally got meat and rolled it into
patties and I cooked corn! I had no idea how to, I just kinda threw it in water
and hoped it would turn out. There was a lot of smoke but in the end I cooked a
successful dinner. My confidence boosted, I had it in my head that I could cook
BBQ chicken, Broccoli, and Salad for lunch today. When I was done everything
looked okay… Unfortunately I had served my host family raw chicken. I had no
idea how to cook chicken so I figured if I put it in the frying pan and then in
the oven it would turn out. But lets be real here. I had no idea how to work
the oven. So after a couple bites, (everyone said it was “muy rico!!”), we all
discovered the chicken wasn’t really cooked. I guess it’s a learning process.
Speaking of learning, I learn something about my host family everyday! May, the
host wife, casually informed me she was Miss Spain. I mean no big deal, she was
just a runway model for 5 years! Oh and I got this awful sunburn. It hurts so
bad I have trouble sleeping at night (Mom I can already see you shaking your
head). Yes I put sunscreen on, but I was alone and there were parts of my back
I couldn’t reach!!
This whole idea of the Spanish not eating chocolate is
really freaking me out. I went into one of the candy shops with the kids and no only did they NOT SELL RECESS,
but also they only had a couple chocolate bars…It appalled me! To make things
worse when I offered the kids chocolate they refused saying they didn’t like
it! What kind of kid doesn’t like chocolate!! But the kids eat olives right out
of the jar. It’s very strange to me.
Well that’s about it for now, please keep me in your prayers! Everyone who is reading this it means a lot that I have your support! :) Stay awesome Cali!!
here are more pictures of the
kids, we went to the mall…
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