Visitors!

I guess I haven't written in a while because not much has been happening. But things are happening now! Oh yes, they are! By the time most of you read this, my parents and my brother will be on the road. After a long day of travel they should arrive here in Sevilla around 9:45 Saturday morning. That's only about 24 hours from now!!!!!!! I am so very excited. Very very very very excited. It is such a blessing that I will be able to share this part of my life with them. Yay!

The other interesting thing is that our apartment with 3 people and a dog now contains 5 people and 2 dogs. Oh my. Yesterday afternoon Carmen's daughter Fabi and her husband Sergio (and their dog Tango) came. They are staying until Sunday I think. We hardly all fit around the supper table last night! It's so awkward to have them here...and it's especially strange to have a man in the house. But they are nice people. They talked to us a bit last night, and I could understand them much better than I can understand Carmen. It was kind of funny though because Carmen was telling them about how Erin and I aren't very picky eaters, and how I will try anything. I can thank my Dad for that...eating adventurously is great! But anyway, I guess we'll survive their visit. And starting tomorrow I'll have something better to distract me!

Classes have been pretty laid back this week after the exams of last week. That is a good thing because I've been pretty tired this week and not very motivated to study. Oh, here's something interesting: In Cuentos the other day, Jose was telling us about animal sounds. It hadn't really occurred to us that the animals in Spain speak Spanish too. For example, dogs say "Guau, guau," sheep say "Beeee," pigs say "Oing," and roosters say "kikiriqui." We got a little silly then and starting asking him about other animals like elephants and monkeys. I really wanted to ask him what a rhinocerous says. It was fun and interesting. And now we have all aquired the useful skill of speaking to animals in Spanish. Maybe I'll be able to understand Boli and Tango now.

Wednesday afternoon I was in a bad mood, but I rediscovered an old trick that certainly helped cheer me up. I was in the mood for some sort of fresh food (we've been eating a lot of canned fruit lately) so I stopped at a grocery store to buy myself an apple. But I couldn't figure out to use the scale so I sadly had to leave without my apple. However, when I passed the next grocery store, I decided to try again, and I met with success! The apple was okay. But the best thing was that the apple had a sticker on it, and I put it on my hand, and my mood improved tremendously! And don't worry, my First South girlies, I saved the sticker for you!

If you're interested, here are some things you can pray about: 1) pray that my family has a safe trip here and that we have a wonderful time together. And 2) please pray for continued adjustment to the roommate situation. I love Erin so much and would not want to live with anyone else, but the adjustment has been much harder than I expected it to be. So prayers are appreciated. Thank you so much, everyone! I love you all!