"El amor de una familia es lo bendición más grande de vida"

"The love of a family is life's greatest blessing," and now I have two!! Sorry I haven't updated the past couple days, a lot has happened, so here goes...

As you can probably tell, I moved in with my family! We all moved in with our families on Friday night. I was nervous and exited and didn't know what to expect before I met them, but then my host mom came to pick me up from the hotel where we were staying and all my fears melted away because she is so sweet! My host mom came to the hotel with her mother, who also hosts a student from CIEE (sorry this might get a little confusing). We all live in the same building together! My mom's parents and their host student live on the 2nd floor (we live in an apartment building that's above a whole bunch of shops on the first floor). There names are Marta and Adolfo and they are such a sweet old couple! They're hosting Anneke, one of the girls from my program so it's really nice to have someone right in the same building as me that also speaks English :) My family lives on the third floor. There's Maria Victoria (Mavi), her husband Diego, there adorable 4-year-old daughter Federica, and a new kitten Bon Bon! I don't really call them mom and dad like some students do because they are quite young haha. I can't wait to get to know them better!

The cool part about where Anneka and I live is that we're basically all one big happy family! We all eat together and hang out together in Marta and Adolfo's part of the building. It's such a beautiful old building that was built about 75 years ago (mom and dad you would love it)! Our family pretty much owns the whole building, I think there are officially 4 units, and then my room (I'll expalin that later), and one of them is taken by a man who lives across from Marta and Adolfo. Across from my parent's apartment is their business. They own a business that delivers like special diet meals (or something like that) to people who need to watch their cholesterol, are overweight, etc. My room is all by itself on the 4th floor, and I absolutely love it! It's quite big, and I have my own tiny little bathroom right there too. There's a random bar in my room and I don't know why it's there, but it looks pretty cool and sometimes I sit at it with my computer haha. I have a ton of natural light which is beautiful. There's a door from my room that opens up onto a HUGE patio because I'm basically on the roof. The whole house has access to it from the staircase too. I can't wait till it warms up a little bit so I can sit out there and enjoy the sun.

I don't have time to write more right now but I'll update again soon! Thanks so much for keeping me in your prayers everyone! So far everything has been wonderful and I love Buenos Aires!

Les Quiero a Todos!
Kerri


p.s. My pictures aren't working so I'll post the link to my facebook album once I get all the pictures uploaded.