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I am in Caceres. it is the second day and it´s been up near 28C (83). We have found the cyber cafe which we received money for, and can buy more minutes on our own when we run out. The heat is dry heat. I can compare Caceres to a mix of Arizona and Albania.
My madre is nice. She has 3 daughters and 1 son, all are over the age of 30. The son still lives at home, it seems.
The second day is much easier than the first. I can actually communicate in Spanish much better. For the most part, fitting in seems to be realitively easy with my madre. Today we went to see parts of the ciudad antigua. Tomorrow we´ll go see parts of the main city. The cell phone I bought from last year´s quadmate seems to be not functioning and not wanting to charge. I will go with my madre to fix that. The plug in my room didnt seem to work, and I told my madre, she had her son, Franci to fix it, and he did but it still seems broken. I dont know what is wrong with it. I will talk to him later to see if he can help me again.
I am glad this week we have a lot of time to explore on our own (as a group or with our familias). Today, we spent 2 hours with the directors, went home for lunch, than came together as a group to the cyber cafe. Tomorrow we won´t meet with the directors until 5pm.
That´s all for now. I will update when I can. I will probably update more starting October, since the campus has wireless internet. At that point, I will start uploading pictures to Yahoo photos
The flight was long and tedious. But I´m glad to be in Caceres, and after a good night sleep (10 straight hours), I am feeling better. Still a little homesick though.
Hasta luego.
My madre is nice. She has 3 daughters and 1 son, all are over the age of 30. The son still lives at home, it seems.
The second day is much easier than the first. I can actually communicate in Spanish much better. For the most part, fitting in seems to be realitively easy with my madre. Today we went to see parts of the ciudad antigua. Tomorrow we´ll go see parts of the main city. The cell phone I bought from last year´s quadmate seems to be not functioning and not wanting to charge. I will go with my madre to fix that. The plug in my room didnt seem to work, and I told my madre, she had her son, Franci to fix it, and he did but it still seems broken. I dont know what is wrong with it. I will talk to him later to see if he can help me again.
I am glad this week we have a lot of time to explore on our own (as a group or with our familias). Today, we spent 2 hours with the directors, went home for lunch, than came together as a group to the cyber cafe. Tomorrow we won´t meet with the directors until 5pm.
That´s all for now. I will update when I can. I will probably update more starting October, since the campus has wireless internet. At that point, I will start uploading pictures to Yahoo photos
The flight was long and tedious. But I´m glad to be in Caceres, and after a good night sleep (10 straight hours), I am feeling better. Still a little homesick though.
Hasta luego.