Jillian just left yesterday after spending about a week with us here in Oviedo. We had a lot of fun making scotcheroos (she was super sweet and brought the ingredients from the States!), celebrating her 21st birthday, and hanging out with her familia! For her birthday, her madre made us lots of amazingly delicious food (tortilla, empanada with tuna, mussels) and her tia provided homemade Sangria for everyone. After the party at the house, we went out dancing with the Spanish ladies! It was all even more fun because Josiah was visiting too!
He was staying with Rosa, the host madre of one of his friends when he was here, and she is a lovely lady! She is so nice and funny and made us a lot of food! Seriously Mom, you would be amazed with how much she got Josiah to put away. Almost as impressive as your attempts to put some weight on him! Josiah also got a lovely European hair cut, complete with gel and faux hawk. It was funny, but he looks good! Of course.
I don't know if everyone knows, but I broke my back tooth (the one that had a root canal) on a stupid candy heart sometime before we went to Barcelona. It was a little scary, but I got a hold of my mom, and she just happened to be going to the dentist the day we talked. he said I would just need something temporary until I got back.
My madre set me up with an appointment with her dentist and last Tuesday after stopping for a cafe, we were off! It was a little nerve wracking being there. I could understand him, and I'm pretty sure he could understand me. But when I told him I needed something temporary, he said "Oh, you won't need anything after this! It will be permanent! You don't have any allergies to anesthetics do you?" As he's injecting something into my gums...He chipped away at my tooth, I ended up spitting out some gray chunks (hope I didn't need that cavity or root canal stuff), and he put some paste or something to form my tooth. I guess it's always kind of hard to know exactly what's going on at the dentist in your mouth, but after showing him my old, gross retainer to show what my tooth used to look like, I trusted him.
It's all good now though and I am having no problems! Now I have a little more experience with Spanish in the medical setting...
This week is our last week before Semana Santa, and I can't wait to go to Paris!!! Josiah is coming to Oviedo first, so we're going to ride the bus to Paris together (17 hours...) and then we'll pick up his mom from the airport! And then we will explore and disfrutar the City of Lights!!!!
That sounds like a challenge to your mother.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if I want her to accept........