I am very grateful to have a wonderful host family. My host mother is Begoña who is a high school history teacher. She is divorced and has 3 sons; Javier, Ignacio, and Carlos. Javier is the oldest (32) and is currently in the US visiting his girlfriend who will eventually move to Bilbao. Ignacio is the middle brother (26) who teaches English. Carlos (20) is the youngest brother and it turns out that our birthdays are actually 5 days apart! He was the one that picked me up from the airport, brought me home and showed me the way to school. My family also has a long haired dachshund named Willie. He is adorable and reminds me of Cilantro. :) You can see him cuddled up in the corner in the entry way picture of the apartment. Also, the other day when I came home another dog greeted me at the door named Hiru who is just the most energetic dog ever. (Hiru apparently means three in Basque). Willie can sense me coming in as soon as I get off the elevator and he runs to the door and starts barking like crazy. Hiru takes the more friendly approach and begs to be petted. :) I live in an apartment on the 4th floor about a 20 min. walk from my school. It's a great morning work out without thinking about it. The door to get in my apartment is absolutely awesome but even better yet is the door to get into my building. It's so beautiful as you can see. After I enter this door, there is a glass door I have to open with the same key to get into the stairwell and elevator. You use the button outside the door to call the elevator and then wait for it to arrive on your floor. Only then can you open the door to go inside. A fun fact about Spain is that they call the 1st floor the 0 floor! Many people get very confused by this. Also, the elevators have like 2 doors and they are very tiny. The max you could fit in there is about 3 or 4 people.
I love the view from the office and living room balconies. AH. Simply. Beautiful.
While here I've made some interesting observations about living in Spain. The first one was in the bathroom. The glass shower door in my bathroom isn't really a door, or a curtain. It's like half a glass, which makes it harder to avoid splashing water all over the floor. I honestly have no idea why it's like that and also don't really want to ask. Also, the are no garbage cans in the bathroom... In the kitchen picture, you can see there is a washer under the counter, which you never see in the US. But that's the way they do it here. There's also a dryer to the right of the pet food bowls. A lot of the lights are off because electricity is very expensive here. In all, I love my host family and my new home!
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Gmail,Mom
9/7/2015 01:19:14 pm
OMG it looks amazing!!!!!!
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Patricia
9/7/2015 01:21:22 pm
Thanks mom
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Gmail,Mom
9/7/2015 01:32:52 pm
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mom
9/7/2015 04:09:49 pm
patricia i did not type this?
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Patricia
9/8/2015 10:38:41 am
Lol mom I know.. Leave a Reply. |
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