Where I live and who with

¡Hola mis amigas! That is about the extent of my Spanish. But, it will get better because I took a test at the university and have been placed in a class that fits with my schedule, yay! That outta keep me busy. I´m also going to play with a basketball team tonight that one of Alicia´s friends found for me, so hopefully I´ll be able to play a lot. Anyhow, I need to show you some pictures of where I live, then I´ll blog again about what I´ve been up to the past two days.

Picture 1: This is what you see when you walk into my room on the top floor of the house. It´s my sitting area. The whole room is shaped like a U with closets in the middle. Picture 2: This is my desk area. Picture 3: This is my bed. It may look small, but is actually quite comfy. Like I said, I have the whole top floor, which includes a bathroom and shower and little workout area. The house is very open with a large staircase running up the middle and rooms on all sides, 3 floors. Lets just say there are enough rooms in the house for some of them to never really be used. Picture 4: The outside of the Rigualt´s home in Pamplona. There´s a tiny basketball hoop and large yard with a pool on the side yard. The hoop is about 6 feet tall and Louise and Alexis and Alicia and I played some ball before Alicia left. Good times. Picture 5: This is me with the kids at Lourdes´house. She´s Alicia´s friend who wants to do a language share with me. Did i mention her before? Anyhow, I hope it´s all clear and you can see all the pictures once I post.

Those are the basics so far. Like I said, I´ll post about the exciting weekend later, but today is my first day as Au Pair Extrordinaire and I´m a little bit terrified. I know I can do all that I need to for the job, I just want to feel comfortable with it. It just sucks to have a constant nervous stomach ache and feeling so lost all the time. But, I just have to power through. Once I feel good about driving and speaking a bit more, I´ll be ok. Patrick gave me an hour and a half driving lesson this morning, which was nice. I needed someone to push me to get it right, so thanks to him! I´m still working on it though. Then I drove the the university (by myself!) and took my placement test, which took a while and came home. Now I´m here, trying to calm my nerves enough to be more hungry. Catherine is coming home to go get the kids with me at 3 today. I guess Alexis has some school thing at 5, so I´ll go to that, I think it has to do with sports and then we´re meeting Louise´s music teacher, I think. I´ll fill you in later. Then, off to my frist basketball game in Spain, yipee!