This post’s goal is to provide insight on the actual family I’m living with as well as a few things that may come to mind.
I suppose you could read this post more as an FAQ and dump of the content from this week. I never said this was a formal blog. but I can at least now clear my mind as time goes on and potentially reflect on my experiences once I return home.
Where are the images?
I certainly have some images to share, mostly of food of course!! because, yes that has been the best part of this experience so far!! Especially home cooked melas. As mentioned in a previous post there have been a few tours but I don’t have too many pictures to share of those at this time.
Who is my family?
I’m not going to mention names just to be on the safe side, but I’ve gotten lucky in that I’ve been placed in a family that is both very close to the school where my exchange program is located as well as very close to a metro stop that will take me directly to the main university (UPF) once classes officially begin.
My family has 2 sons, a very small dog (who I’ve unfortunately already stepped on), a parrot (honestly pretty cool one I might add)
As a side note, I thought the dog fur would be a problem since I am allergic to some per furs but luckily things have been well so far or at least I don’t feel bad.
Speaking of the pets I forgot that whistling might trigger the parrot and that it did, in fact it decided to copy my tune which was a fun time.
The logistics of getting around and interacting with eh community
As it turns out getting around the city is quote convenient and easy to learn, that is if you’re fully signed.
In all seriousness I’ve actually had a reasonable time getting around as I was able to come earlier with my father to begin exploring the city and learning some of the basic layouts of street crossings.
Throughout this week the program CIEE has provided me a sort of one on one guide to assist me in a more formal way on getting to and from places and showing me general routes and the like.
This has been a tremendous help and served me well so far, and well lets just say I can successfully navigate to both places I know and new places so long as I have a GPS for map directions.
The hardest thing to get used to is the fact that street crossings are not directly on street corners but rather a few feet past the corners, I will say once you get used to this fact crossing becomes a lot easier as you have less traffic to have to pay attention to.
Anyway thats probably enough rambling for this post, I’m tired now but here is certainly more to come.
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