Family

I found out today who the mystery host family will be! I am living with a single mother and her two younger daughters. Irena Stojanovic (pronounced Stoyanovits) is separated from her husband and is working and a PhD student of Economics here in Zagreb. Her two girls, whose names escape me, are 6.5 years old and 12 years old. They have fish and live in a small apartment which I can walk to from the SIT office! (Which is excellent because that means I can sleep longer, get more exercise, and because I have to go there every day!). We meet with our host families at the potluck Saturday night and then go home with them. We have Sunday to adapt and then class Monday morning.

We started hrvatski jedik class today (Croatian Language class). Our teacher, Marija (Maria), is amazing and I'm so happy we have a great language teacher (I have always abhorred learning a language classroom style). But this obviously will be a lot more hands on than other language courses because we will be living in Croatian.

My host mom does not speak too much english, but the little girls do. I am going to try to really stick with Croatian. I'm excited to learn it, and so far it seems like it wont be that hard. I have the pronunciation down pretty well right now. There is only one form for all past, present, and future verbs. All pronunciation stays the same, no exceptions (like stupid engleski).

That's all for now. We're going out for drinks and hopefully some food and espresso.

Love,
Erica