Well I have moved in with my new family, Warren, Marilyn, Rhian, and Carys. They are a very lovely family and are always fun to be around. The girls are 8 and 6 or 7, somewhere around there and they are hilarious. They like to tell joke and laugh a lot, many times they are in their own little world and it is fun to listen to the types of things they are saying to each other. This morning I heard Carys speaking to Rhian and apologizing for something followed by "My Queen." It was quite funny. Warren loves to read and works for a non-profit called Speakeasy that gives free legal advice and Marilyn is a local general practicioner. One thing I have had to adjust to some is that they are very in to healthy food. This is quite the opposite of my family from home...we don't eat too unhealthy, but by no means was I forced to eat vegetables! I think I have eaten more vegetables in these past 4 days than I have in my entire life...maybe an overstatement, but quite possibly true. The good new is though we have had dessert each evening after tea (dinner) so far...I hope this continues!
Yesterday we went to an art center that is a ministry partnered with the church called "The Gate." It is a very neat environment. It is an old church converted into this ministry that offers dance classes, pilates, plays, musicals, and a cafe. I think this will be a place I spend a lot of my time...well hopefully. The music in this coffee shop, that I am at, is interesting...it sounds like someone pushing down on the record and still playing the music and I'm pretty sure the person singing in dying a slow painful death...apparently the people here like that kind of music though. Anyways, I would imagine the music at The Gate is a lot better! We heard an orchestra practicing yesterday while we were learning all about The Gate and it did sound nice.
It was sunny yesterday and most of the day today, but we had a true taste of Wales weather on Wednesday because it was tipping down as they say here! I had on a rain jacket, and an umbrella and still somehow I was still getting wet. The British students that we are working along side will be arriving tomorrow and Sunday, I am excited to meet them and hopefully all of them and all of us Americans will get along nicely. We will begin doing a lot of work on Monday, so I am also excited about that and hopefully it will be very challenging and fun at the same time!
I know there is loads more to tell you, but I seem to have forgotten what they are now. Have a nice day!
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