So today was the big day that we were to meet out families. I was super nervous and excited at the same time. I came down from my hotel room and my host dad was already there waiting. Mariono is such a cute older man and he had a huge smile on his face when he met me and my roommate Lena. When we greeted him we got to kisses on the cheek. It was great! We piled our stuff into his car, and then took a taxi to his apartment. We were both so excited about what was happening that we didn't pay attention to wear we were going....this will come back to bite us later. So we get to his apartment in Ronda de Capachinos. We live on the 5th floor. But its really the 6th floor because they have a 0 floor or I guess ground floor. All of the housing here is the same. Everyone lives in apartment style housing on top of each other. We meet Lola, our house mom, as soon as we get there. She is also very cute and greets us with kisses. Her house is so lovely. You wouldn't believe the view that we have from out balcony!!! She takes very good care of her humble aboad. Me and Lena share a room with 2 twin size beds. We have a set of shelves each and share an armoire. We also share a bathroom that has lots of shelving space as well. I will definitely be very comfortable here!!
We decided to unpack a little before lunch. We finished around 1 and needed to buy a few things like shampoo and more hangers. So we know there is a chino store (basically a dollar store) right by the school. And we needed to figure out how to get to the school anyway. We looked at a map before we left...but for some reason we thought that we were masters of it and left it upstairs. So we are walking and walking and cant find Recaredo street which is the street the school is on. So we asked someone and finally found the school and chino store, grab a few things and leave. It's about 1:45 and Lola said lunch would be about 2 or 2:30. So we think that gives us enough time to get back. We know that Recaredo turns into our street Ronda de Capachinos so we are pretty confident that we will find out house. We get to Ronda and we are feeling pretty good so far since we arent lost yet. But now we are thinking...what does our building look like? I think its yellow? This is wear we wonder WHY we weren't paying attention when we are in the cab. So we mistake 2 yellow apartments for ours. We walk up and down Ronda de Capachinos and don't recognize anything. We ask about 3 people where we are....and they have never heard of our plaza. We actually live in Plaza Jose del Castillo Diaz, which is just off of Ronda de Capachinos. So finally its 2:30 already and we are hot and exhausted and completely lost and late for lunch! Lunch is the most important meal of the day, and it's very disrespectful to be late or to not show up at all. So we decide we better get a cab. Well the cab driver doesn't even know where we live. So now we are up a creek. I decide I better call Maya. She is the assitant director of the program and lives here in Seville. I called Maya so she can try to figure out what happened and where we are. She tells me that we are very close and that she will call me back while she works out directions. So she calls back 10 minutes later and says Mariono is coming to get us.We were so embarrased! We were late for lunch and had to have him take us home, and only for a few hangers and shampoo! But we got back ok and they totally understood and gave us better directions for next time. HOPEFULLY this will be the last time I get lost. (knock on wood).
Lunch was absolutely delicious. I cannot tell you exactly what it was. There was chicken, and then salad, and then a type of tomato based vegetable thing, and melon for dessert. We asked Lola what kind of melon, and she just said melon. It is a type of melon I don't think we have in the US. Kind of a mix between cantelope and honeydew. I am not a huge fan of either of those melons...but I liked this one.
So after our long adventure in the blistering sun, it was a little over 100 degrees today, we are exhausted. Thankfully we have siesta for about 3 hours everyday, so this comes in very handy.
Tomorrow we have a group excursion to Italica, some ruins here in Spain. We have to meet at a bus stop in the morning, so me and Lena are going to map it out tonight and make sure we can get there!
We decided to unpack a little before lunch. We finished around 1 and needed to buy a few things like shampoo and more hangers. So we know there is a chino store (basically a dollar store) right by the school. And we needed to figure out how to get to the school anyway. We looked at a map before we left...but for some reason we thought that we were masters of it and left it upstairs. So we are walking and walking and cant find Recaredo street which is the street the school is on. So we asked someone and finally found the school and chino store, grab a few things and leave. It's about 1:45 and Lola said lunch would be about 2 or 2:30. So we think that gives us enough time to get back. We know that Recaredo turns into our street Ronda de Capachinos so we are pretty confident that we will find out house. We get to Ronda and we are feeling pretty good so far since we arent lost yet. But now we are thinking...what does our building look like? I think its yellow? This is wear we wonder WHY we weren't paying attention when we are in the cab. So we mistake 2 yellow apartments for ours. We walk up and down Ronda de Capachinos and don't recognize anything. We ask about 3 people where we are....and they have never heard of our plaza. We actually live in Plaza Jose del Castillo Diaz, which is just off of Ronda de Capachinos. So finally its 2:30 already and we are hot and exhausted and completely lost and late for lunch! Lunch is the most important meal of the day, and it's very disrespectful to be late or to not show up at all. So we decide we better get a cab. Well the cab driver doesn't even know where we live. So now we are up a creek. I decide I better call Maya. She is the assitant director of the program and lives here in Seville. I called Maya so she can try to figure out what happened and where we are. She tells me that we are very close and that she will call me back while she works out directions. So she calls back 10 minutes later and says Mariono is coming to get us.We were so embarrased! We were late for lunch and had to have him take us home, and only for a few hangers and shampoo! But we got back ok and they totally understood and gave us better directions for next time. HOPEFULLY this will be the last time I get lost. (knock on wood).
Lunch was absolutely delicious. I cannot tell you exactly what it was. There was chicken, and then salad, and then a type of tomato based vegetable thing, and melon for dessert. We asked Lola what kind of melon, and she just said melon. It is a type of melon I don't think we have in the US. Kind of a mix between cantelope and honeydew. I am not a huge fan of either of those melons...but I liked this one.
So after our long adventure in the blistering sun, it was a little over 100 degrees today, we are exhausted. Thankfully we have siesta for about 3 hours everyday, so this comes in very handy.
Tomorrow we have a group excursion to Italica, some ruins here in Spain. We have to meet at a bus stop in the morning, so me and Lena are going to map it out tonight and make sure we can get there!
Haha oh man getting lost. I know the feeling so well! Frustrating. Don't ever leave your map again! I actually wore out a bus map so completely while I was there that it started falling apart!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you like the food. I had no idea what to expect, but I was happily surprised. (For the most part...haha)
I comiserate with the heat... it's stinkin hot in Lbk too! Most of my time in Sevilla was pretty cold, so take heart-- it will cool off!
Keep updating us about class. It's definitely strange to go to all kinds of wonderful places and have to do homework on the plane! But the stuff you learn is so special because you're USING it every day. I loved that.
These posts are awesome. Keep it up!
Alyssa