Well, I finally made it! After a long day of traveling with an hour delay in Dallas, TX. I have made it to my home stay, unpacked, met my family, and am settling in! So much has happened since my last post only two days ago.. where should I begin? I have to say through my entire day of traveling I have only came across friendly people, both of my "seat buddies" on the plane were very friendly. First, it was a Neroscientist dad from Michigan and then on my flight to Argentina it was a 20-something year old girl from Argentina that studied English in London so we got to talk. She helped soothe my nerves, she was very friendly and was open to answering my questions! I actually found out that she lives in the same area in Argentina that I am! Small world. Well, after the hour delay in Dallas, Texas due to removing luggage from the plane because two people could no longer be on the flight, we took off and it was a smooth flight. I took my Advil PM and slept a decent amount! The food on the plane wasn't too bad which I was very thankful for. After landing I was officially all on my own. I stepped onto a foreign land, not completely knowing the language and not knowing a single sole. There was no going back now! So off to immigration and customs. Everything went smoothly, as I got to immigrations I handed my passport over and the man working the desk asked "habla espanol?" (speak Spanish?) and I told him "estoy aprendido" (I am learning) so what does he do? He proceeds to talk in Spanish- I can successfully say I navigated, with some difficulty, through immigrations only speaking Spanish- woot! Then I was off to get my luggage, and I flew right through customs and found CEA waiting for me. I was greeted with a big hug and a kiss on the cheek (everyone does that here... hugs and kisses you on the cheek, I have gotten a lot of those already.) Then we were off to drive about 45 minutes to drop off one other student at her residence and then it was my turn. I get to the building that I will be living and the doorman puts me on the elevator and says they will be up on the 9th floor waiting. I get off the elevator to find that there are two doors and of course I knock on the wrong one... oops! I finally found where I was supposed to be and the mom gave me a huge hug and kiss on the cheek, welcomed me, and showed me around the place- holy cow its big! I then find out that there are actually four other U.S students living here with me and possibly one more to come to share my room with me. After unpacking and hanging out with Gaby and her two sons for awhile (Gaby lives here Mon-Friday with her 8 year old son and her 4 month old son- ahhh baby! and she helps around the house.) Finally, about 3:00 our time, two of the American students came so I finally get to meet them and speak some of my own language! (the family knows very little English- I now fully understand what a language barrier is!) I am now sitting in my room, with my balcony door open because it is nice and warm here with a breeze. It has already been fantastic and it hasn't even been one full day! I will now hang around the house more until dinner around 9:00 pm (they eat really late here) then off to bed because I have orientation tomorrow morning. I am so blessed to be here and so excited to see what is yet to come. Talk to you all soon! Adios!
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