Martes, 29 Junio

¡Hola de Toledo!

Because I am unwilling and unable to sleep during "siesta" I am choosing to use this time instead to blog! I do not expect most people to be particularly intrigued, but as Becky is obsessed with my life, my parents are at least moderately interested, and the odd person visiting may enjoy a picture or two of Spain, I

will do my best to keep this blog up to date.

I arrived Sunday and met my host family! My host mom's name is Blanca Sanz. She has two sons who live with us, a boyfriend, and also a daughter who has a husband and child. She also has a nephew or two, plus two foreign exchange students from Texas who are leaving Friday. So besides myself, Lexi, and Kat, there are quite a few people in this house! It makes having one bathroom pretty exciting. Normally we eat in shifts.

La universidad de Castilla-La Mancha is really close to the house. It takes us about five or six minutes in the morning to walk to class.

Projects forthcoming: A video walkthrough of the house, a picture walkthrough of the path to school, and probably a gallery of cool things in Toledo once I see more of them. So far I haven't seen a lot besides the university and the plaza near the house.

Tonight I am going to see the futbol partido de España y Portugal en La Plaza de los Toros. It seems that most of the city is going to go there in order to watch on some sort of a projection. I am pretty excited. I want to go look for a Fernando Torres jersey but of course, it's siesta and everyone is sleeping. Que triste.

In the meanwhile, I post this for Andy's enjoyment. We were minding our own business eating tapas when SUDDENLY a fight broke out! I got the whole thing on video:

What a violent town this has turned out to be!

Captions:

Photo 1: The first view outside of the Barajas Aeropuerta en Madrid

Photo 2: A furtive camera shot of my host mom through some windows

Photo 3: The view out of my current classroom window (though I will probably move up a class or two tomorrow)