Saturday
Mayhem. I´m losing sense of time with all this traveling but it doesn´t matter because it´s worth it to travel so much. This morning I woke up and went to the airport with a boy from my primary schools parents. We were going on a Spanish exchange, something I didn´t have time to be excited about after all the mayhem of the Bahamas. So I wandered absentmindedly on the plane which was practically empty other than the people on our trip and it only kicked in that I was actually spending a week in a foreign country having to speak a foreign language when our coach arrived in front of all the Spanish kids and their families. Suddenly I was shaking and everyone was speaking very fast in spanish and english and to be honest it was all very overwhelming.
My spanish family found me and took me to their house.. which was a very awkward walk because I couldn´t understand anything they were saying until they found out my name was Milly.. pronounced it Miley and the little sister started talking about Hannah Montana which really broke the ice. Their family and house was lovely and very spanish and when I arrived they said we would eat a bit now and then a bit later so they sat me down at their table with lots of cold meats laid out and started to eat. In England a snack is normally biscuits or toast or crisps or whatever but here it´s sliced ham, chorizo, and cold frankferters. It´s so strange seeing other peoples culture.
Then my girl (Patri) took me out and we gradually met up with more and more english and spanish people everyone very loud and struggling to comunicate. They took us to a turkish restaurant and paid for all of us to have dinner which was so sweet. Suddenly I found myself being able to communicate quite easily and now I´m finding it oddly quite difficult to write in English. In places like Spain where everyone has dark hair when a girl like Amy with long blonde (rubio) hair walks in all the boys fall in love with her... not that she wanted their attention seeing as they all looked like they were in year 8 and nerdy year 8´s at that.
They took us on a longggggggg walk all around their village and it´s beautiful they have a wall which has castle turrets all along it. The long walk was to get this black vodka stuff which tasted like blackcurrent, and by the time we got it it was midnight and everyone had to go home. Worried at first but now I feel like I´ve settled in and I´m looking forward to rather than dreading tommorow.
MILLY.D
