So I leave Friday, which seems terrifyingly soon. I have been trying really hard not think about it though, while still going about preparing to leave (which has obviously been a little difficult to do but somehow I seem to have managed it). I finally got some information on my host family. I'm going to be staying with a 64 year old divorcee who's three children are suppose to live relatively close by. Her son actually owns furniture shop next door to the house. She also rents a room in the house to a 24 year old man named Daniel who is studying industrial engineering and who has a wife and three year old daughter who live in the south of the country. The whole set up sounds pretty interesting. I think that I'll get the chance to meet a lot of people living in this particular homestay and the whole situation sounds a lot less stressful than I was imagining it to be. Since this woman is already renting out a room to someone else I think I'll feel like a lot less of an imposition to her while I'm living there. (I know she had to sign up to have me come live with her, but even so I can still imagine myself believing that I am totally putting her out just by being there.)
My brother has been saying that he wants to meet up with me during my long layover in Texas, so I'm excited about that. It will be insanely early, so I am not entirely confident that our meet up will actually take place (since I get the feeling that anything before 10am doesn't really work for him, not that I blame him for this sentiment). Any possible opportunity to see him though is worth getting excited over.
I'm done with work now so I'm just going about my business getting prepared to leave. My friend Cat left today for Missouri. Actually as I'm typing this she is probably on her way to the airport. It's really too bad that she has to leave this week. She'll return just days after I've left for an entire month and a half. I wish we could have had this week to spend together but oh well, that's just the way things go.
Chev sent me some awesome pictures of Costa Rica in an attempt to get me excited about the trip and I have to say that the monkey pic in particular really did do it for me. Thanks Chev!
3 comments:
Piú giú, in fondo alla Tuscolana...!?...passavo per un saluto!
'cause monkeys are AWESOME
Your homestay will be awesome. I advise you early to start considering them as your family and not as lodgers--they want to learn about you as much as you want to learn about them! You could be in touch with them for the rest of your life. In any case, it sounds wonderful. Best of luck, friend.
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