It’s been a few weeks since my last blog post, and a LOT has happened. Unfortunately I was no longer able to continue living with the family I was first assigned to, and I changed families. Now I live with my new host brothers Edric (12 years old) and Ismael (16 years). I have a mother who works as a physiologist in the prison, holds aa classes, and is a teacher (impressive right?), and a grandmother who runs a catering business out of her house. She is such an amazing cook and she’s been teaching me how to cook a little. We’re always eating all kinds of amazing dishes that she prepares for clients, and makes extra for our meals as well.
I also changed schools. Now I am going to the school Colegio Felix Olivares Contreras, which is a public school. I go in the afternoons with Ismael which means that I wake up at 10:00 am or 10:30 am every day. I walk to school at 12:00 pm and have classes from 12:40 pm to 6:10 pm. I’ve become really close friends with another exchange student named from Austria. Every day Luca and I eat empanadas and talk about all kinds of interesting things. He’s really into politics and foreign affairs and the United States. His first choice for AFS was to go to the US, but the program was full and he ended up in Panama. We’ll talk for hours about US history and current events, and it’s really fun to hear the European view on things.
My brothers and I watch a lot of sports. We’ve watched almost every game in postseason for american baseball, although they’re yankees fans (whyyyy me?). We also watch a lot of bob esponja (spongebob) and the simpsons in spanish. I love watching spanish cartoons because they talk slower and I can understand almost everything.
A few weekends ago we went to Boquete. We ate lunch at a hotel that I knew my parents in the United States would absolutely love. It was contemporary looking and had the most beautiful garden outside, and they had live music. After we drove around for a little while, and then went to a German Bakery. I ate pineapple pie, which I think might just be gods best creation. I'll upload some pictures of Boquete some other time. I have them but I don't have the time right now. It was also raining a lot so I couldn’t take a lot of pictures, but it’s something. Boquete honestly could be the prettiest place on earth. I can’t really take good pictures yet with my camera so it’s hard to show, but I think even the best photographers in the world couldn’t convey Boquete’s beauty in a photo.
