adjustment (again!)
Thursday, September 20, 2007
okay. this afternoon i`m going to be changing hostfams...this current family that i`m living with is just my welcome family.i`m really gonna miss this family...last night, alejandro of afs argentina called. he said tht they will be picking me up this afternoon...my hostsis belen gave me a shirt, a magazine, a bracelet, a small address notebook,and a photo last night too!gaby gave me a magazine too!anyway, i`m so gonna miss this family...i`m so gonna miss their specialty known as `TARTA DE ESPINACA`that`s `spinach pie`in english...i went ÙGH`at first when i realized that it was spinach!oh c`mon.. spinach????but then, it tastes sooooo good.really.you won`t realize that it is spinach....i`m soooo gonna miss rocio and our `he`s soo cute!`exclamation whenever we see some cuties around...im soooo gonna miss belen and gaby.....my hostmom is not yet here. she`s still in the south of argentina...so gaby told me that i can just return here when their mom arrives so that i can say bye and thanks personally...i dont know anything about my next hostfam yet...im going to know that later.anyway, i won`t be able to post anything for several days since i have to adjust (again) with my new hostfam...besides, i will be going to school next week..that`s another adjustment.hey, im starting to learn spanish! i can speak and make sense now!but i speak slowly........i can also understand their words now... but they still speak so fast in my perspective so that means that i`m not that keen with spanish yet...but im gonna learn. of course.so excited to meet my new hostfam...will i have both parents? or will it be a single parent fam again?will i have a brother? sister? how many?and im so excited to go to school....nervous but also excited.i mean, im gonna study chemistry and physics and math IN SPANISH.i love challenges... YUM! *grin*anyway, my hostsisters told me that they use books rarely here...they use their notebooks more.and their notebooks here are very different from the notebooks there,here, they use a refillable notebook... and there`ll be four subjects for every notebook...environment-friendly and cuter...it`s almost spring here... and it`s really COLD.especially in the wee hours of the morning and late at night....i slept at around 2am... and i woke up at around 9...this place is messing up with my internal clock.it seems that everyday is vacation since people sleep VERY late every day...oh yeah. they dont haveany sense of time, i remember...there are lots of people named pablo here...i already know four.pablo of afs in buenos aires, pablo of the choir, pablo of the house-next-door, and another pablo of afs which is a volunteer....i spent less than two weeks here and i already know four pablos...hmmm...i dont know why but the friends of rocio doesn`t look like they`re just around 13 to 14 years of age..they dont look old. just a bit older....like, they seemed to me as if they`re already 18 or 19...hell, they looked older than me.you know, sometimes it`s so nice to be young or maybe to look younger than your age...why?because people are very helpful with younger people...at the frankfurt airport, this british guy showed the way to the information center because i have to ask for something about my flight...then at the information center, the german lady there answered all my questions then after that, she asked me if im alone.i said yes.then she asked my age.i told her.and she said `you are doing great`when i arrives in tucuman by the doubledecker bus, i went to get my luggage from the man who is incharge of giving the luggages to their owners...then after he gave me my bags, he showed me his palm.i didnt have any argentine money to give at that moment.then, this man behind me, he gave a coin to that other man (i didnt see the monetary value of the coin)then the helpful man told me èsta bien`... that`s the spanish of ìt`s okay`wow. so helpful and nice...THE TOP THREE WIDELY USED LANGUAGES1. english2. mandarin3. spanishso if you can speak spanish, you can talk to two-thirds (more or less) of the world`s entire population..a tip for learning new languages: NEVER TRANSLATE EVERYTHING IN ENGLISH.in nihonggo, if you translate evrything in english you`re going to have an entirely different sentence,,,in spanish, if you translate everything in english you`re going to have a headache...why?because not everything can be translated directly...hey. gotta go.over and out.chao!
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