Monday, February 28, 2011
this weekend in photos :)
I am only going to post photos tonight because its so late but tomorrow I will write about this weekend. There arent many, and I have a lot more to post, but those are for tomorrow.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Pineda
Today was really fun! I guess everyday has been really fun for me because everything is so new. At lunch time Pedro came home and we went to the back to try and exchange Solus Peruvian money at the Banco de Espana, only to be told they could not do that, and then on and on until we finally gave up. So then we went to his dad's office so that he could exchange the money there with his dad for euros. His dad filled up the Derbi and bought us lunch. Unfortunately my chicken on a stick was under cooked, but I ate it anyway so not to offend them. Here you have to eat everything on your plate so that you are not considered rude and wasteful. After lunch we had to hurry back so that Pedro would not be late to school. When we got back his mom and sister were there for lunch, so I hung out with them and had Flan for the first time. It was not my favorite thing... it kind of has a weird texture.
When it was time to get the children, senora Maria had be drive to the kids' school, I stalled the car once on the hill outside of the school, it was a little stressful for me. But the rest of the way to Pineda and then home again I drove perfectly. I wanted to write about Pineda a little bit because it was really cool. Pineda is like an american country club in a way, except that the children play all their sports there. Carlos today played tennis and Alejandra rode horses. I stayed and watched Alejandra for an hour and a half. It was interesting because I have never really been around horses, so it was different. Her horse is 12 years old and didnt really want to listen to her at all... a very stubborn horse. On thursday she is going to do jumping with a different horse and then she will do competitions.
Well that is basically the day that I had. It is nice here though. The weather is warming up, no more rain and I can walk any where or get a ride on the Derbi :)
Buenos noches!
When it was time to get the children, senora Maria had be drive to the kids' school, I stalled the car once on the hill outside of the school, it was a little stressful for me. But the rest of the way to Pineda and then home again I drove perfectly. I wanted to write about Pineda a little bit because it was really cool. Pineda is like an american country club in a way, except that the children play all their sports there. Carlos today played tennis and Alejandra rode horses. I stayed and watched Alejandra for an hour and a half. It was interesting because I have never really been around horses, so it was different. Her horse is 12 years old and didnt really want to listen to her at all... a very stubborn horse. On thursday she is going to do jumping with a different horse and then she will do competitions.
Well that is basically the day that I had. It is nice here though. The weather is warming up, no more rain and I can walk any where or get a ride on the Derbi :)
Buenos noches!
AH! A really long blog!
Hola!
Well I am going to finish my blog from Friday since I didn't get around to doing that before I left for the country Saturday morning. And then after I finish that I will try to get to update everyone about today and thennnn I am going on the Derbi (Vespa) to the Banco de Espana!
Right now I am obsessed with the song "Eet" by Regina Spektor, I just thought you should know before I get any farther into this.
I really like these photos because they are of the downtown Sevilla area :) The buildings are really old and really pretty and they are cleaner than the ones are in the area where I am living. Senora Maria said that I can take the kids on a bus tour of the downtown on Friday since they don't have school (I forget why they don't have school).
This is Pedro. Hes really nice and has shown me around the downtown and other areas. I am really in love with the family I am staying with, they are all so nice and we all get along very well!
Now about the weekend...
I have to say that I am really disappointed that my camera was dead when I got to the country this weekend so I won't be able to add photos of their land until at least two weekends. Sadness! But alas, this weekend was really fun. Friday night don Pedro and Senora Maria (I will refer to them as this so that they don't get confused with the children) went to a school benefit dinner, so I stayed in with Pedro and Carlos. The real fun began on Saturday though.
I woke up at 9am Saturday and went downstairs at 10am. When I got there and rang the doorbell no one answered so I was worried that maybe they'd taken off without me. But they were still sleeping! We left around 12:30 and got to the country in about an hour. Ecija (pronounced ethiHa) was the biggest city that we passed through and if you take a second to google Ecija, you will see that it is not large at all, ha! The countryside where they live is gorgeous! The land that they live on was gifted to senora Maria by her father who owns the olive trees. I can not even begin to guess how much land they own. They have a beautiful house and own the street are their horse stables.
I found one photo I managed to take before my camera died. Its of a turkey they have when you first drive onto their property! ha!
I am going to update later since my itouch decided to close and delete all I had been writing...
Buenos tardes!!
Well I am going to finish my blog from Friday since I didn't get around to doing that before I left for the country Saturday morning. And then after I finish that I will try to get to update everyone about today and thennnn I am going on the Derbi (Vespa) to the Banco de Espana!
Right now I am obsessed with the song "Eet" by Regina Spektor, I just thought you should know before I get any farther into this.
I really like these photos because they are of the downtown Sevilla area :) The buildings are really old and really pretty and they are cleaner than the ones are in the area where I am living. Senora Maria said that I can take the kids on a bus tour of the downtown on Friday since they don't have school (I forget why they don't have school).
This is Pedro. Hes really nice and has shown me around the downtown and other areas. I am really in love with the family I am staying with, they are all so nice and we all get along very well!
Now about the weekend...
I have to say that I am really disappointed that my camera was dead when I got to the country this weekend so I won't be able to add photos of their land until at least two weekends. Sadness! But alas, this weekend was really fun. Friday night don Pedro and Senora Maria (I will refer to them as this so that they don't get confused with the children) went to a school benefit dinner, so I stayed in with Pedro and Carlos. The real fun began on Saturday though.
I woke up at 9am Saturday and went downstairs at 10am. When I got there and rang the doorbell no one answered so I was worried that maybe they'd taken off without me. But they were still sleeping! We left around 12:30 and got to the country in about an hour. Ecija (pronounced ethiHa) was the biggest city that we passed through and if you take a second to google Ecija, you will see that it is not large at all, ha! The countryside where they live is gorgeous! The land that they live on was gifted to senora Maria by her father who owns the olive trees. I can not even begin to guess how much land they own. They have a beautiful house and own the street are their horse stables.
I found one photo I managed to take before my camera died. Its of a turkey they have when you first drive onto their property! ha!
I am going to update later since my itouch decided to close and delete all I had been writing...
Buenos tardes!!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Friday is fun day in Sevilla
Today was a very exciting day! Definitely the most fun I have had (considering I've only been here 5 days...). This morning is a little hazy, its been a really long day.
I am about to make pizza for Pedro, Carlos and I, I am going to go back and forth a bit.
I have not introduced the family yet, how rude! The parents are don Pedro and senora Maria. The children are Maria 16, Pedro 15, Alejandra 12 and Carlos 8. I have already posted a photo of Alejandra and will post more photos from today later.
This morning I decided to sell my computer to a resale shop. I got 200 euros, which is almost 300 USD. Pedro drove me there on his motorbike (essentially a Vespa). How crazy of me to ride one... oh I know! This afternoon he drove me to a place where I bought the netbook I am typing on now! Much better. Oh yeah I forgot to say that I sold my computer because it would not work with the internet here so it was pretty much useless and I could not do anything! Then we went to downtown Sevilla, I have many photos from here, its so pretty! Then we had to go to the vet because the dog that he got has worms... so sad! The vets office is right by where their house they are getting renovated is, so that was really cool to see.
Hope you enjoy these photos of Spain!!
Buenos noches!
I am about to make pizza for Pedro, Carlos and I, I am going to go back and forth a bit.
I have not introduced the family yet, how rude! The parents are don Pedro and senora Maria. The children are Maria 16, Pedro 15, Alejandra 12 and Carlos 8. I have already posted a photo of Alejandra and will post more photos from today later.
This morning I decided to sell my computer to a resale shop. I got 200 euros, which is almost 300 USD. Pedro drove me there on his motorbike (essentially a Vespa). How crazy of me to ride one... oh I know! This afternoon he drove me to a place where I bought the netbook I am typing on now! Much better. Oh yeah I forgot to say that I sold my computer because it would not work with the internet here so it was pretty much useless and I could not do anything! Then we went to downtown Sevilla, I have many photos from here, its so pretty! Then we had to go to the vet because the dog that he got has worms... so sad! The vets office is right by where their house they are getting renovated is, so that was really cool to see.
Hope you enjoy these photos of Spain!!
I liked this photo because of the lion on it. It reminded me of the geneology that my mom did for Jack's ancestory and thought they would like to see it. Jack is spanish royally a few generations back... :)
This photos are of the cathedral in downtown Sevilla. And I am going to call my mom so I will add more in a few minutes!
Buenos noches!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
First post!!!
Buenos noches!!
I am going to post a lot of photos and few captions to go with them. Sorry I has to be brief but it's late I have to be up early!
I don't know if you can see it, but these are the lights of Nuevo York!! At this point I was still excited to be on the plane (ha!)
My first glimpse of España!! I was already thinking I was ready to get off the plane at this point.
My failed attempt at getting a picture of what I think are orange trees... It is winter so orange trees are in full bloom all over Spain.
My cute little bed and table :) a much smaller apartment but it is perfect for me here!
My little bathroom that has bars on the windows even though I am four floors up!! Also I had no hot water the first morning there... So I boiled water to clean with! How's that for quaint? Lucky it works now ;)
It also rained so much the first morning, it sounded like there was a monsoon outside! Which is funny because it is not supposed to rain often in Seville. Luckily I brought and umbrella but sadly no rainboots.
this is my kitchen and my proud spoils from going to the grocery store! I made it through with very little Spanish and being unable to recognize the total by sound...
This is me yesterday being happy about all the things I've done so far! Ha!
These are the hampsters and two squirrels (one of the squirrels bit me so I stay away now). There are two more hampsters that are pregnant so maybe I'll get so see hampsters babies!!!
This is Alejandra :) she's twelve, rides horses and is pretty much just awesome
Well I am going to sign off for the night. Tomorrow I am going to the country with the family to ride horses an learn to drive stick. I'll probably get to post a new blog on Sunday :)
Buenos noches again! Next time I hope to have photos of all the family!
I am going to post a lot of photos and few captions to go with them. Sorry I has to be brief but it's late I have to be up early!
I don't know if you can see it, but these are the lights of Nuevo York!! At this point I was still excited to be on the plane (ha!)
My first glimpse of España!! I was already thinking I was ready to get off the plane at this point.
My failed attempt at getting a picture of what I think are orange trees... It is winter so orange trees are in full bloom all over Spain.
My cute little bed and table :) a much smaller apartment but it is perfect for me here!
My little bathroom that has bars on the windows even though I am four floors up!! Also I had no hot water the first morning there... So I boiled water to clean with! How's that for quaint? Lucky it works now ;)
It also rained so much the first morning, it sounded like there was a monsoon outside! Which is funny because it is not supposed to rain often in Seville. Luckily I brought and umbrella but sadly no rainboots.
this is my kitchen and my proud spoils from going to the grocery store! I made it through with very little Spanish and being unable to recognize the total by sound...
This is me yesterday being happy about all the things I've done so far! Ha!
These are the hampsters and two squirrels (one of the squirrels bit me so I stay away now). There are two more hampsters that are pregnant so maybe I'll get so see hampsters babies!!!
This is Alejandra :) she's twelve, rides horses and is pretty much just awesome
Well I am going to sign off for the night. Tomorrow I am going to the country with the family to ride horses an learn to drive stick. I'll probably get to post a new blog on Sunday :)
Buenos noches again! Next time I hope to have photos of all the family!
Location:Calle Felipe II,Seville,Spain
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