Cordoba

Well, I made it to Cordoba. Following my arrival was the second best shower of my life.

Host family is spectacular. Andrea and Gabriel are mi mama y papa. Andreita is my sister, and there are 2 brothers. All that is spoken in the house is SPANISH. Most of the time, I look like an idiot, it´s woonderful. I´m catching on quickly, and have learned some very important things:

Mayonase goes on EVERYTHING. DInner does not begin untill somewhere around 10 or 11 pm. There is a lot of kissing. Wine goes with all things food, going through 2.5 liters of coke for dinner is not unusual, and they dislike PAris Hilton as much as Americans do.

The the most important thing is that my life here is sooo hard. I wake up to someone serving me coffee or tea, there is always dulce de leche, fresh bread, and jam, and afterwards i lounge poolside for a few hours. Yes kids, it´s summer here. Too bad I packed for winter. So yesterday I went to purchase pantalones cortes. Shorts. These were a life saver... except now i´m, covered in moscoito bites and badly burned. I look like the pasty red american girl...Good one COurtney.

Tomorrow I begin work with the orphans. I met most of them already, and they are sticky loud, crying kids. And oh so cute. And for anyone who called me cautious courtney for bringing a lice kit, good thing I did because one little girl told me, ¨yo tengo piojos.¨ Jokes on you kids, i have a shampoo for that!

Well, for now, since i´m on the family computer, I shall get back to not looking so American.

PS, today is Dia de los Mujeres... Woman´s day! The ladies take advantae of it here. Lets look into bringing this up with Obama, shall we?

Toodles!