Today was my first run in Spain! Alright, it was a jog mostly because I had my camera to take pics AND everything was uphill! The monestary of el Escorial is literally a 5 min. jaunt up the hill from mi casa. I found the grounds around the monestary to look like something out of a picture book! I came home and did a workout-yoga on my pretty patio. Who needs a mat?
Time for lunch, as its 230!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
First 24 Hours Abroad
I am ever grateful for my life, friends and family back in Idaho. My decision to live abroad was spurred by several different things, but mostly it is the desire to be out of my comfort zone and experience LIFE at its greatest. Sounds cliche´, but Eleanor Roosevelt once said this:
¨The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.¨
She was absolutely correct. The longer I stayed in Boise the more stale I felt. This has nothing to do with any of you readers at all. It´s just personal. It´s me. I am too afraid of living life with regret. Hence where I am now.
I do not know a lick of Spanish other than a few choppy phrases and what Kari Branson taught me years ago upon her return ;) I hope to learn the language while here because I respect it so much. The family I am with are full-blooded Spanish and the father only speaks broken English. The mother is half Italiano but speaks English very well. The two adorable boys (Mario 7 and Julio 5) speak fluent Spanglish! The first night I was here Silvia (madre) asked Julio to ¨tell Erin good night¨ and he said ¨Audios!!¨ Loved it.
Today I learned how to play the Wii in Spanish! Julio was a very good teacher. And patient. ;)
Tonight I went out with five other au pairs and two local boys that they knew. Caroline, who is from Canada had spoken with Silvia earlier and was so sweet and called the house tonight asking if I wanted to meet up in San Lorenzo. Let´s just say I was super stoked and of course, said yes! They were meeting at the square in front of town hall. Silvia drove me in around 10:30 and I was sitting in the beautiful empty square, marveling the monestary peaking over the rooftops when I hear¨Erin?!!¨ from a group of english speaking peeps about 50 feet away. They had been there for a few min, but I wasn´t sure if they were my group or not. Needless to say, they are all fanstastic (1 from Canada, 1 from Holland and 3 other American au pairs). I learned that vino tinto is red wine and that here you don´t tip AND my vino was only 2 euro a glass. love it!!
Laurel walked me home and come to find out she lives down the street from me. All the girls have been here almost a year and love it. Caroline is sadly leaving in 4 weeks. Speaking of, I need to get some sleep because we are supposed to go hiking in about 6 hours from now. I told her I hope to be awake. Jet lag is kicking my butt right now!
Good night from Spain.
¨The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.¨
She was absolutely correct. The longer I stayed in Boise the more stale I felt. This has nothing to do with any of you readers at all. It´s just personal. It´s me. I am too afraid of living life with regret. Hence where I am now.
I do not know a lick of Spanish other than a few choppy phrases and what Kari Branson taught me years ago upon her return ;) I hope to learn the language while here because I respect it so much. The family I am with are full-blooded Spanish and the father only speaks broken English. The mother is half Italiano but speaks English very well. The two adorable boys (Mario 7 and Julio 5) speak fluent Spanglish! The first night I was here Silvia (madre) asked Julio to ¨tell Erin good night¨ and he said ¨Audios!!¨ Loved it.
Today I learned how to play the Wii in Spanish! Julio was a very good teacher. And patient. ;)
Tonight I went out with five other au pairs and two local boys that they knew. Caroline, who is from Canada had spoken with Silvia earlier and was so sweet and called the house tonight asking if I wanted to meet up in San Lorenzo. Let´s just say I was super stoked and of course, said yes! They were meeting at the square in front of town hall. Silvia drove me in around 10:30 and I was sitting in the beautiful empty square, marveling the monestary peaking over the rooftops when I hear¨Erin?!!¨ from a group of english speaking peeps about 50 feet away. They had been there for a few min, but I wasn´t sure if they were my group or not. Needless to say, they are all fanstastic (1 from Canada, 1 from Holland and 3 other American au pairs). I learned that vino tinto is red wine and that here you don´t tip AND my vino was only 2 euro a glass. love it!!
Laurel walked me home and come to find out she lives down the street from me. All the girls have been here almost a year and love it. Caroline is sadly leaving in 4 weeks. Speaking of, I need to get some sleep because we are supposed to go hiking in about 6 hours from now. I told her I hope to be awake. Jet lag is kicking my butt right now!
Good night from Spain.
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