Rico Suave exits stage right

Hey everyone!! Thanks again for all the e-mails, letters, comments...I love reading them!

Today is the start of my final week with my host family! I can't believe how fast time is flying. It makes me sad, but then again, I can't wait to see Italy and eventually (in about a month) set foot on Hoosier soil again.

As for updates...yesterday, I didn't do a whole lot. Homework, gave the kids their lessons, went to the pool to (unsuccessfully) work on my tan. My host mother's brother, Fernando (the English-speaking one!), his wife, Carmen, and their three boys came over and we all had a nice chat. I played a little soccer with their youngest, Miguel, who is about 6 years old. Good times. :-)

After dinner, my parents called me and we had a nice chat. Then as I hung up the phone, it rang again, and it was Pedro! (a.k.a. Rico Suave) If you recall, he's a lawyer, but currently unemployed...he has a job interview in the south of Spain later this week, so he's leaving Wednesday for 2 weeks! (He's staying down there for a little vacation...because these Spaniards like to mix business with pleasure whenever possible.)

Anyway, we had a nice little chat, and he told me he'd call me around lunchtime today to maybe go out this evening...and then that will probably be the end of Pedro, unless I see him my last week here (Aug. 4-Aug. 13). As I said before, I need a Spanish boyfriend like a whole in my head. ;-) But it's too bad, because he's just super. (Or as my good pal Rita said, "All the Pete's I've ever known were really swell guys!" lol)

Anyway, I've been told my last post about Pedro was sort of ambiguous...so I don't want to give anyone the wrong impression. I just didn't feel like typing anymore. :-)