Monday, May 31, 2010
Spanish school and family stay
We´ve been in school for a couple weeks. We´re living with a 60 year-old woman to enhance the learning experience. We both like our teachers and usually like the food that our host mother prepares. The ¨rules¨ of the house make us chuckle. ¨When the lights go on in one room they go off in another, don´t eat on the beds, don´t put suitcases on the bed, dirty clothes get washed in a washer once every 8 days. (We hang it on the line.) Last week it took 4 days for them to dry because it was overcast and rainy. This week it only took 3 days. Next week we´ll go to a laundry mat that has a dryer. One of the other novelties of the house is that we have to ask her to turn on the water heater when we want a shower or to wash our face and it doesn´t stay on long after we´re done. We like her a lot. For 3 meals\day and laundry once a week it´s a good deal for $36\day.
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I am really enjoying catching up on your adventure Andy and Patricia! I love this post as it reminds me of my host mother and her constant need to feed me to absolutely NO END. She had weird rules too about the toilet and, god forbid, about the "monthly visitor." It was interesting to say the least. I, too, hung clothes on the balcony and found the crusty jeans a challenge to put on. Luckily I just got used to wearing dirty clothes. It was a good life lesson anyway in packing less and using more of what you did pack more efficiently. Hugs and keep up the posts. You have fans. Kelley M.
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