A few days ago, I was
sitting in the living room when I heard Amanda start yelling from her room. “SIBLEY SIBLEY SIBLEY, check your email,
CHECK YOUR EMAIL!” As she came bursting into the living room, I pulled up my
email in order to learn why my normally calm and collected cousin was shouting at
me and bouncing off the walls.
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This is pretty much what she was doing. |
Sure enough, I had an
email from the study abroad office. I
opened it and saw that it contained our homestay assignment for this fall. Amanda and I are going to be roommates!
(Again!) We had requested each other on
our housing questionnaires, but that was no guarantee that we would be together,
so I was excited and relieved to see that we will officially be living with the
same family.
Even better, the email
contained a letter from that family. It
was written in Spanish, which, while not unexpected, we still found really
exciting. They are a family of three—a couple
and a son several years younger than us.
In the letter, they explained that they are a thirty minute walk or a fifteen
minute bus ride from the university, and they are looking forward to helping us
have una experiencia inolvidable en
Espana, an unforgettable experience in Spain.
Of course, after reading
all of that, I was as excited as Amanda, so we bothered our other roommate and
probably the residents of the room below us by dancing around the apartment
like crazy people. Now we’re working on
a letter back to our host family, but it’s taking a while to figure out, in
Spanish, how to express how much we are looking forward to meeting them and how
much we appreciate them opening their home to us.
Summer seems to be flying by. We leave six weeks from tomorrow!