Today we met our host family!!!
Our host mother is a woman who lives in the apartment of her parents, which she lived in as a child. She lives alone and the apartment is large, with four bedrooms. It has all of this old fancy furniture, and we eat at a table with huge arm chairs.
The food is her main hobby! There is always so much food and she likes us to finish it all. I guess she doesn't believe in leftovers. For dessert we had fruit and yogurt.
Today we went on a walking tour of the city, took a Spanish placement test, and had a session about extracurricular activities. I was surprised at how awesome the CC-CS center is. It's like a huge ancient Spanish mansion, with three floors, a fountain, and a patio. There are a lot of decorative tiles and it's colorful. The buildings are one of the most amazing thing about the city. They are so beautiful! The streets are really tricky because they are NOT in block formation. Downtown, they tend to curve and veer. Some are super skinny but cars still manage to drive down them at alarming speeds.
THE BEST NEWS EVER:
Our house has wireless internet, which is highly uncommon.
Today was a good day.