Mi Familia y Una Semana Despúes

It's been so ridiculously hectic I have not had a free chance to write anything about my trip since the flight.
On friday I met my family. They live in a rather tiny apartment on Calle Fernandez. I have a host madre, padre, y dos hermanas. One of the daughters is 23 and is mentally handicapped. She spends everyday in front her own little tv that they play videos on. She doesn't speak besides Hola, Mama, y Papa. She can't quite stand correctly, her eyes are crossed and the only emotion we ever see from her is crying or screaming at the screen. It's really difficult and it makes me feel terrrible. The other daughter is 20. Now you would think "oh nice, you have an instant friend to take you out..." WRONG! She just does not seem to like my roommate and I. Besides the fact that we can never understand her she gives us one word answers and avoids our presence at all costs. Her boyfriend Martín basically lives with the family. It's like also having a brother in the house. He eats meals with us and sleeps on the couch pretty much every night. We try to talk to him and he seems really nice but he's very much influenced by the daughter. Also there is un perrito. A little dog name Jury? Judy? Jooey? No sabe. But it's adorable
On friday night we went out but we were so exhausted it wasn't anything special. On saturday we went out though. First we botellon'd which is basically when everyone drinks in the streets/by the river. Then at like 1 we started going to bars.. One called the LONG ISLAND CAFE. They had shots for every sate. I took NY, PA, FL, and MI. Michigan was a whiskey it was gross, Florida was Mailbu/Martini, PA was something like a candy cane which was good and NY of course was the best, carmel! After we went to few other bars. There were some creeper situations but everybody knows that thats just the story of my life so I won't bother to write about those. All night though we became accustom to the dos besos policy. Meaning that every time you say hello to someone you have to give a kiss on either cheek. We called it an early night after one of the clubs tried to charge us and started to head home at 4:30 a.m
Last night (sunday) was the superbowl. I spent the day walking around Nirvion (the area where I live) with Tommy and Joey and found some cool stores...but everything was closed! The only thing opened was a movie theater on the roof of the mall and and ice skating rink on the 1st floor of the mall. None of the stores or cafes were open. We found an Irish Pub that played the superbowl so we went to watch it at midnight when it started. It wasn't very exciting. There were no commercials, we couldn't hear anything, and no one was really into it. We were talking to this two older guys that were spanish teachers and learning english through the intercambios program at my school. I was paying so much attention to the game that I was pretty much ignoring them and they kept telling me I was to serious....SUPERBOWL HELLO!!
Finally, today I've started classes, kinda. For the next 3 weeks I have 1 language class from 9-12:45 with an hour break everyday, and a cultural realities class for 1 hour every monday. I had to sign another contract saying that my spanish only policy was starting today and that I could be released from the program with no refund if I do not abide. SCARY!

So, I didn't even have a chance to talk about all the places I visted or the food yet but I can not get started on that now...I should leave a daily menu, if anyone reads it they'd be sick by the amount of food we get. I'll start that tomorrow!
HASTA LUEGO AMORES <3