Mi Casa-Part 1

Today we rode the bus to school because it was absolutely pouring rain. We were all soaked by the time we walked from the bus stop to our building at the university even though we were using umbrellas. I had all 4 of my classes today, which tends to be a bit long since we sit there for 4 hours straight with no break. Everyday my host mom makes me a cheese sandwich and gives me a juice box to take as a snack. After classes, thankfully the rain was over. We took the bus home and I had lunch with my sister and host mom. Clara made lemonade from the lemons that her dad gave us. It was really good. This afternoon, my host sister and I watched last week's episode of Grey's Anatomy. She absolutely loves that show and so do I!

Casey, Lizzy, and I are starting to make our plans for Italy. The cities on our list to visit are Rome, Florence, Venice, and Siena. We will only have about 7.5 days there, so we will try to see as much as we can. Also, a couple days ago we booked our tickets to go to Ireland for the weekend after St. Patrick's Day!!! I'm so excited! I will get to visit my friend Abby who is studying abroad in Cork for a couple days and then we will spend 2 days in Dublin.

I've decided to put up some pictures of where I live. I'll put up more tomorrow hopefully but for now, the kitchen and living room!

The Kitchen! We have plastic yellow chairs to sit on and pretty much every meal we have to get the stool from the bathroom for someone to sit on since there are 3 of us.
Washing machine on the left. They do not have dryers here-only washers so everything is hung out on the line to dry. There is a dishwasher in the middle/right of the picture.

Microwave and Oven

There is always fresh fruit on the table. Refrigerator is on the left and freezer is below.

Every living room has a table like this with heater underneath. The blankets go down over the heater to keep the heat in. You can put them over yourself and warm up while watching TV.

Living Room

TV :) They don't have many channels here and my family doesn't have cable. They sometimes watch American shows like Extreme Makeover Home Edition that are dubbed over in Spanish. They watch a lot of tv!!

More living room.

Tomorrow I'll try to post pictures of my room and the bathroom!

Hasta luego!

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