somewhere over the equator, ada flies...

the amazingly wonderful blog of ada's year in argentina as she leaves everything in maryland and the rest of her world to go to another one and learn a new language and all the cliché stuff for her junior year. and struggles to type in third person. xoxo ada >: )>

Friday, February 16, 2007

my new host family!!!

Hallo again! So yes, I realize I’m posting two things on the same day, though actually I’m not sure if I’ll actually POST this today (2/16)… we’ll see : )> anyways, I did so because the two things are so entirely different, that it seemed odd to put them all in one post. The other contains stuff up to and through changing families, but ends when I changed… this one talks about my new host family!!!

I have two host parents, and two host siblings who live at home, then a half host sister who’s 30, but who lives nearby. My host parents are Cristina and Ruben Muller. My host dad’s grandfather was from Germany, his grandmother from Russia, but he grew up in a German speaking community (in Argentina), in a province called Entre Rios (because it’s between two rivers lol), on a farm. He only saw his real dad once in his life, but there’s actually a really cool story about how last year he finally met all his half siblings and half family for the first time, only it’s really long and I’m tired of writing so much haha… anyways long story short, he met them last year for the first time and it was really emotional and cool and like a movie. Oh, and he’s a mechanic.
My host mom is from Paraguay, she moved to Buenos Aires alone when she was 13. By 16, she was married, but her husband had cancer, and when their daughter was 3 (four years after they were married) he died. I’m not sure how many years ago she married my host dad, but they’ve got two kids. My host mom is a beautician, but she works at home… it’s a small business, all through word-of-mouth… she does mostly waxing, but also manicures and such.
I get along really well with both of my host parents, we talk a lot. They’re lots of fun, and I’ve spent tons of time just talking with one or both of them, about all kinds of things. My host dad plays the harmonica, and we were playing around with his harmonica and my flute, playing songs we both know, though I don’t know many pieces by heart on the flute… singing, I do by ear, but for the flute I need music. We’ve talked about practically every random topic imaginable… movies, books, the holocaust, wars, funny family stories… it’s cool, cuz with them we talk a lot more about my life here and stuff… riding, French, and all, instead of just about my life in the States, which I’m really thankful for.
The daughter from her first marriage, Veronica Laura (Vero) is 30, and lives nearby. She’s divorced, but has 2 small kids, who’re adorable. Vero is studying to be a make-up artist, but also sells make-up and lingerie and stuff from catalogues. She’s incredibly nice, cracks me up. She’s tiny, you’d never know she’s 30, but great fun to talk to. She and Vicky are really close too, which is cool.
Vicky is 18, and has always been one of my closest friends here, mainly because she lived 5 blocks away, but we get along really well, talk about EVERYTHING; like I said, the first night we were up talking until 6am, and since then, cuz she works late a lot of nights and doesn’t get home until 1am or 2am, we end up going to sleep really late; she hates just coming home from work and going to sleep. That makes sense and all, just means we end up going to sleep at 3 or even 4am some nights lol, but whatev it’s all fun. She works at McDonalds, and when her college starts, she’ll go to school in the morning, and work in the afternoons.
With Vicky comes her boyfriend, Facu. It’s almost like I’ve got another host brother, cuz I see him practically every day. He works too, but I doubt he’ll go to college, if only because he doesn’t have the money. He’s also a huge soccer fan/player… he’s in training right now to try out for the professional team from this area (not one of the huge teams from the capital, Boca Juniors or River Plate, though I think it’s the same league). He’s lots of fun, gets along really well with her brother, Niko.
Niko’s 15… I didn’t really know him before I came here, but the first two days when Vicky worked all day, I spent most of the day with him, and we’ve gotten along really well. He goes to the technical school connected with the Ford auto factory… it’s cool cuz when he graduates, with the diploma from this school, even if he doesn’t go on to work for Ford, he’ll have no trouble finding work. Because of this, he’s really into computers and stuff, duh, so until my computer decided to be special and stop working with the dial-up internet, no one really used the other computer, and mine lived in his room (where the phone cord is) and he practically lived on it, it was pretty funny lol. Cool though, cuz like I said, I got to know him a lot better.
Then, there’re the pets… in the front yard lives a huge white rabbit, that Facu gave Vicky three years ago after they’d been going out for a month. The rabbit’s best friend is a black kitten, who’s now about 10 weeks old, currently fast asleep, wrapped around my chest, wrapped around my neck like a scarf. The kitten (I’m not honestly sure what his name is; Vicky calls him Manuel, Niko and my host mom call him Pancho, and my host dad calls him Gaturro, after a cartoon cat figure kind of like an Argentinean Garfield… though at the same time not lol). The kitten has three modes: sleeping, eating, or running around like a psycho cat… one day he’s going to give the poor rabbit a heart attack, I swear lol. He is adorable though, and great fun to take pictures of.
In the backyard lives a turtle, which I saw for the first time yesterday, cuz he practically never comes out of wherever he is. Then, there’s a little black dog called Daisy, and a huge Saint Bernard called Otto who, I swear, is at least as tall as Cookie was.
So that’s my new host family… the house is a bit bigger than the other, plus we have a telephone and internet, which is cool, though like I said my computer went special on us the other day and since then has refused to recognize that the phone cord is, indeed, plugged into it (it’s not the phone cord, as it works for the other computer). Sigh, oh well. When you walk in the front door, the first half is a living room/where my host mom has her waxing stuff set up behind a screen thing, that turns into a dining room with a table and such, as well as the computer. Then, there’s a little hallway that leads to the kitchen, which is where we usually eat. Off the little hallway, first is my host parents’ room, next to the first room, then a bathroom, then the room I share with Vicky, and then on the other side of the hallway is Niko’s room.
In the front yard there’s a little garden, where the rabbit is slowly diggin a hole to China, which the kitten is slowly filling in as he plays in the dirt the rabbit puts aside, and a small yard which is very nice for sitting and drinking matte in the late afternoon. In the backyard there’s a little covered patio, and then a nice big pool. Behind the pool is a little garden with a couple trees, and behind that a parrilla and various other tools and such.

My life as far as friends, riding, French and all hasn’t changed, though I’m not taking voice lessons this month because the place where I take them is closed… but everything family-wise has, and so far it’s all changed for the better. It’s like they were my “real” family, though at the same time I couldn’t have been with them from the start, mainly because they wouldn’t have been able to handle someone who didn’t speak the language, who didn’t know the area… as my host dad needs the car to go to work every day, my host siblings and I take the bus everywhere, which is fine for me now, as I’m used to that, and by now I know where I’m going or at any rate how to figure it out and get there, and I speak the language. But whatever; I don’t want to have any regrets here, and I don’t, so it’s all good : )> So… I don’t have more time today, but in a bit I’ll post all about our trip to CORDOBA! (see the pix though! http://picasaweb.google.com/overtheequator )

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Your host father speaks German?!?!?! Learn some German!!!! :D
Well, I didn't have time to read much more than that -- History test, you see...
Anyway, I haven't had a chance to read this much, but I hope you're still enjoying yourself, and I can't wait to hear everything when you get back.
Oh, and you're missing the snow here.
-Bex

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