today was my first full day in mendoza!! may 25th is a national holiday so there is no school and everyone stays at home and celebrates with their families! somehow all of the pictures on this blog got mixed up...the first thing we did today is at the bottom and the last thing is at the top haha....dont worry, ill get the hang of this blog thing sooner or later! so go down to the bottom and work your way up!
We came home around 9 and Rue, Brett and Gonzalo (Rue's 13 yr old brother) came over to my house and we hung out for a while. Gonzalo doesn't know very much English....him and Marcos (my brother) had fun making fun of our spanish haha
attempting to read a german book to him haha neither of us really knew what we were doing...so we just pointed to things and said the words in spanish -like colors and animals haha i think we read this book a total of 6 times. everytime we were done he would jump around and yell "otra vez!! otra vez!!"SO CUTE
after the barbecue we had siesta (best part of the day!!) then went over to my mom's brothers house and i became instant best friends with Juany- the 2 year old. probably because we know about the same amount of spanish haha...but he is CRAAZZZZYY! he is obsessed with the movie cars (rayo mcqueen haha) and madagascar. he watches one of them everyday, so when we were leaving they were turning on madagascar for him. his mom is german and so he is learning german, spanish and english all at the same time. he is so precious...i am already obsessed with him!
setting the table
all different kinds of meat (AMAAAAAZING), toasted bread and melted cheese!
We then decided to go home and have a barbecue which was one of the best meals that i have had in a loooong time!This is my brother Marcos grilling outside. The way they barbecue takes about 2 hours for the meat to cook, so we just sat outside and talked which was alot of fun. I am ETREMELY fortunate that my family speaks english...but they said its only for the first week. so starting sunday, we are only speaking spanish. so looks like i wont be talking much for 5 weeks!
mi hermano y yo!
After breakfast, we went up to a hill in the city called 'cerro de la gloria'.this is a picture of my family and I in front of the famous monument. after looking around for a while, we got back in the car and drove around the city and by our school and they pointed out to me all the different things I will be doing. this is a picture of me with my family!
We all slept in today till about 11 then ate breakfast which included toast (looooots of bread all the time), cereal and freshly squeezed orange juice which was AMAZING! they used 2 oranges, a grapefruit and some water. best juice i have ever tasted and it is completely natural! this is my room in the house!
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