Just a few cositas (little things).

1. Grace and I are two college sorority girls living with a little Argentine grandmother named Carmen.

2. Grace and I can barely understand her and we do a LOT of nodding and
then try and figure it out later if it’s important.

3. We always knew we had a turtle. Even though our packet we received said no pets… but the news is, we just found out that Manuelita likes to sleep under the fridge. Perfecto.

4. Grace and I eat breakfast every morning with Carmen, Grace was making small talk by saying the neighbors (who leave their connecting window open) were coughing all night. Just an observation… until Carmen decided to call up the said neighbor, tell neighbor the “chicas” were complaining about her, ask what the heck was wrong, and had the neighbor come over. Perfecto.

5. Carmen really likes Obama. Grace’s dad is a doctor… last night’s conversation= soo much fun! : )

6. I am becoming a man. There are cockroaches in my room. I kill them. I OWN the raid bottle. My Toms are no longer Toms, they are THE ROACH DESTROYERS.

7. Carmen saves everything. We knew there had been an economic crisis in 2002. What we didn’t know was that there is a purpose in hanging onto old toilet paper rolls.

8. Carmen is on the phone literally all the time. So many amigos. And we can hear her talking about us all the time. But we can’t understand what she is saying. Talk about some freakin’ motivation to learn Spanish. Sheesh.

***SIDE NOTE*** I sit on skype around 7:30 your time most nights. : )

Hasta Luego, Samantha
(Carmen refuses to call me Sammy. Duh.)