Loving Every Minute of Crazy!

The week has thrown us for a bit of a loop (for details on what happened, read the previous post). ES2 is settled into school, starting (American) football practice this coming Monday, has laughed, cried, and been thrown off kilter by us and yet ES2 keeps smiling. ES1 and ES2 get along great and we have worked out all the morning bathroom kinks without awkward moments. We're on day 6 and in my opinion, it couldn't have gone better! And they are both willing to experiment and do new things.

I realize how much food four people eat! Goodness, it's not so much the preparing (Don and I both love cooking for more) but I have ben to Meijer's for groceries four of the last six days! Obviously I was not prepared for a fourth person!

Don and ES2 get along great just like we thought when we read the application for the Exchange Student Program. Our dinner and/or family conversations have been interesting, to say the least. We've heard all about the beautiful Portuguese beaches, the monopoly 'assets', and having to ask/not ask for 'forks' twice in our home (ES2 has promised to improve his articulation!).

I thought initially, that it would be easer to understand ES2 over ES1 but I am finding that ES1 is easier to understand even though ES1 doesn't know English as well. I guess its because I've heard ES1 talk longer and maybe in a couple weeks ES2 will come along, although, ES2 still pronounces the 'g' and 'j' as Spanish sounds and not as they are in English and so sometimes I just don't know what is being saying. I'm starting to think of that more and am putting it together better.

I am also trying to engage ES1 and ES2's parents in this whole escapade. ES1 has one parent who know's fairly good English and the other does not. Neither one of ES2's parent's know English at all. Hummm..... This could be interesting. The first communication went fairly well. I had written them an English email, headed over to google translate, had it translated into spanish and then sent it into the abyss of cyber space. A couple days later I got a response...also using google translate. I found out, that google translate does work, if you are able to think hard about all the other possible synonyms that could fit into any number of words at any place in the email. Because we are brilliant people, we were able to understand each other and I certainly chuckled over the happenstance. Maybe another day...any takers on one who would translate for me???

Anyway, that is life right now: loving every minute of crazy!