Today Nancy invited Mona over for almuerzo despues de colegio and we made mini-alfajores. Which are. Delicious. Two layers of a little cookie thing with this goopy caramel stuff in between. Really simple to make. Flour, eggs, some other thing I forget the spanish name of, and butter.
Afterwards I was allowed to go to Laetitia's house with the other AFS personas (Johanna, Clemens, Ondine, Louise y Emily) to make waffles and hangout. Johanna and Clemens are here for work exchange things from Germany and Ondine is from Francia, also studying in San Pedro Uni con los otros; I just forgot to mention them before. Anyways, I love spending time with them. I feel like I can act more like myself and it feels more natural. We have more of the same sense of humour and understanding. I love Europeans. They're hilarious. And apparently I'm hilarious as well. We all get along super well and for once I'm the youngest, instead of the oldest (and by far most mature...) in colegio. Johanna, Clemens and Ondine are in their early 20s and the other girls are all 18. I'm so jealous of the amount of languages they can speak! I love languages, it's definitely something I want to learn more of. For example, Mona is basically fluent in German, English, and French, and understands almost all of Italian. Louise, Laetitia and Emily also speak Flemish. It's so cool when we all just switch from language to language when we're talking. Well. I can only use two, but it's surprising how much I think I can understand of french anyways... I hadn't even noticed until the end of the night that most the the time we had been speaking fluent, rapid SPANISH!! Which is funny because these little reunions of ours used to be so we can converse in our native tongues :P I didn't even translate it in my head or anything. Sometimes I even find myself thinking certain words/phrases in spanish. I've also noticed I keep writing in my diary or blog in spanish without realizing it. It's awesome. Man I just want to travel the world and LIVE! I love getting to know people from other countries; their humour, customs, thoughts, culture, laws, everything. I still don't know if I want to go to university right away in September, or if I wanna take a year off to work and travel and such. There's so much out there.
But I have to get up at 5:30am tomorrow to go to Trujillo with my swimsuit and camera. Niiiight !
You're a natural with languages. I thnk you should do French immersion next :) Being bilingual in Canada is a big deal, can live anywhere in our big beautiful country then. Ask Jill about how awesome her degree in lanugages and music was for her. She's traveled and lived all over the world with her violin and 5 different languages.....
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