Holy smokes, I´m here! I arrived yesterday and after some confusion arrived in Puebla Sunday evening. The house and the people, Eduardo and Lorena, are really, really nice! I think they´re retired, and they have three grown children. The house is about a 30-minute walk from school. As you go from home to school, you enter the historic district. It´s really pretty, and I can´t wait to explore it. There are lots and lots of churches (natch), some modern, some colonial. Everyone is so nice! The food is different, and with all the walking, maybe less of me will come home!
Best of all, I´ve discovered that I can speak Spanish pretty well!!!!! I´ve been talking up a storm with Eduardo and Lorena, and pretty soon you´ll see this blog in Spanish too! The institute is really serious stuff; we have homework and everything. I´ve already had to write an essay to show how much Spanish I know.
More later! It´s time for school.
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Whew - big relief stateside, too! I thought of you as Sunday wore on, wondering how far you had progressed toward your destination. I slept in on Memorial Day and figured you had not, since it is a "school day" for you. I am not surprised by your fluency pre-classes, though I bet it is a relief to you. I hope you post often so we can live your adventure vicariously! - Love, Judy and Joe
ReplyDeleteSounds like your adventure is off to a good start. I will look forward to how your story progresses - since I cannot be there with you!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy and be safe! Love Beth (and Hank)
How exciting, Mary! You're going to come home so confident in your language skills, and it sounds like with a wonderful series of experiences, too. Can't wait to hear how things go. Gee, a historic community, too! Pictures, please... love, david and werner
ReplyDeleteIt´s wonderful here. Beth, the other morning, the lady of my house (can´t call her mother, she´s only a litter older than I am), had out an old cookbook from the thirties that was from Nestle! It had all these recipes in it for evaporated milk. I thought of Sam.
ReplyDeleteThis weekend we´re going to a church dedicated to Michael the archangel, which has a lot of indigenous imagery in it!