Hola Todos!

Hola from Cordoba!!
Lex and I are now sitting in the computer lab at the University of Blas Pascal (www.UBP.edu.ar check it out, it´s pretty cool). We just finished our first classes en español. Our first class, Spanish in the media, seems like it will be pretty fun and fairly easy. The teacher explained that the most important thing is for us to each personally improve. Our second class however, the history of Argentina, seems to be impossible, not really sure how to live through two hours of that class at a time. With the help of our tutors and "amigas" here though, I´m sure we will do fine (or at least well enough to pass our pass/fail courses!). We have had absolutely the best experiences so far and cannot believe that we´ve only been here for two days, now on our third. We´ve been writing things down in a journal that we will be putting up soon. For now, I thought we could start with a little vocabulario. Here is a list of some of the words we will be using while writing this blog:

La Casa de Lacoste - our home for the next four weeks. We live with the Lacoste family here in Cordoba on la calle (street) Octavio Pinto. The family consists of the mother, father, four girls, and one boy. The girls are Hanni 30, Bella 28, Valeria 25, and Denise 21 and Juaquin is 13. The oldest two girls do not live in the house but we have met them all and they are all very nice. The dad and Juaquin just got back from a fishing trip last night.

Mama Lacoste - Senora Alejandra Lacoste. Our homestead mother. We absolutely love her! She is so nice and has totally taken us under her wing while we are here. She makes the most amazing food for us and makes us show her everything we are taking with us out of the house so we don´t bring too many pesos and are sure to always have a copy of our address and her telephnoe number. She helps us whenever we have questions about the language and dinner always turns into us asking her how to say this or that. She laughs when I (brittany) sit and nod my head when she is talking because she knows I obviusly have no idea what she is saying. A HUGE breakthrough was yesterday though when she looked at me and said, te comprende mas. (you are understanding more). She has been so good to us and is very understanding when we go out because her own daughters don´t usually come home until 7 in the morning! (the argentinians are LOCO!) When she tried to explain stuff to us and we don´t understand, Mama Lacoste makes ridiculous faces as we begin a game of cherades. My favorite was when she acted out the face of an angry cat. :)

¿Que onda? - what´s up with....

¡Fondo Blanco! - the equivalent to the english expression¨chug.¨ Although we would never use this word ourselves, we ocassionally hear it in the bars of Cordoba.

Well that´s all for now. Hope everyone at home is doing well. We miss you all so much. Stay tuned for more to come!

¡Besos! (kisses)