My new family

Family: On Saturday, I moved in with my new family.  I´ll share what I can about them but my info is a little spotty becuase while my spoken Spanish is improving, it´s still really difficult to understand what people are saying.

There are five people who live in the house.  Two sisters (Angela and unfortunately I didn´t catch the name of the other sister) live in the house along with two children and an older gentleman who I think is the uncle of the two sisters.  Angela is the one who cooks my food – as far as I can tell she doesn´t work outside of the house.  The unnamed sister is a nurse who would like to be an architect but can´t afford to go back to school.   The two children are a teenage girl who was introduced to me as Angela (but I´ve also heard her referred to as Maria) and a five year old boy (Sebastian).  Angela/Maria is the daughter of the unnamed sister.  I´ve heard both sisters refer to Sebastian as their son so I´m a bit confused by that.  The older Angela and her unnamed sister have 8 other brothers and sisters!  The house that Angela and her sister live in is the house they grew up in – in fact, Angela told me that this is the only house she´s ever lived in!

The teenage girl can speak some English so she often serves as the translator between me and the sisters though it often takes a few attempts before I understand what she´s trying to say.

I´m actually the first student they´ve hosted!  They have hosted travelers before. For example, they mentioned hosting a couple of girls from Korea in December.  Anyway, I really like the family….they´re very, very nice!   The only problem is that since I´m the only student, all the focus is on me.  As an introvert, I´m not comfortable with all this attention.  But it´s for the short term so I will manage.