As you can see, I'm pretty excited. Why you may ask? Well I received my placement and got in touch with my host family! I was told I would probably not get a placement until June, so getting it on February 5th was the greatest surprise of my life. I was just checking my email, ready to do to bed, when I got an email titled "tu familia espanola"
I will be spending the next year with Jose Javier (host-dad) Carmen (host-mom) Carmen (16-year-old host sister) and Dama, mi perra espanola <3 They live in Caceres, Extremadora, Spain. It is seriously one of the prettiest cities I have ever seen. History Lesson: Caceres was controlled my many different groups of people throughout the ages, including the Romans, Moors, and Italians during the Renaissance. Because of this, there are many different styles of buildings in the city. It was declared a World Heritage City by UNESCO, so it has to be pretty cool. Also, Caceres is famous for the abundance of stork nests there, interesting.
The weather in Caceres is pretty close to here in the summer... hot and miserable, but at least I will feel at home! In the winter the average temperature is about 50 degrees in the winter, a bit colder than here. It also rains a lot, it is supposed to be raining there all this week. I don't know that much about my family yet because we just haven't emailed that much yet, but I stayed up all night stalking/researching the city. Carmen says she will send me photos this weekend. I can't wait to find out more about my family and city!!!
Just some of my favorite pictures from Google Images
p.s. I haven't figured out how to do Spanish words on an English keyboard yet, so sorry for the lack of accents, tildes, etc.
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