I was looking back on my journals and realized that most of them are about my travels to other countries! I have yet to write about what a normal day in the life of Spanish Kayla really is like! This might be boring for those of you who enjoy the adventurous side of things, but for someone who is looking to being a Conversation Corp in the future with this program keep on reading to find out what it is really like. Who knows, maybe my host family could be your host family one day...

The mornings are pretty relaxed for me. I sleep in until 10 or 11 depeding on if I am meeting people.I have some breakfast by myself because the family has long gone. I am very fortunate to live near a big, beauitful park so in the mornings when I feel motivated I go for a run that turns into a jog that ends in a walk which ends in a crawl up the 9 flights of stairs to my piso. 2 laps around this park is around 4.5 miles which is nice! 

Usually I am meeting people in the center of Madrid and we meet around 12 at Sol. So after my run/jog/walk I take a shower, and get ready. Before I leave I have to make it past my house keeper, Tonya. I love this woman to death, but it is like a mobster negotiation trying to get out of the house. Most days Tonya will come into my room, touch my hair, shake her head and make a clicking sound, then stand in the doorway until I go to the bathroom and use the hair dryer. The Spanish are big thinkers that if you go out with wet hair or no coat you will get sick and you will die! So after my hair is dried and I have A) been force fed an early lunch by Tonya B)forced to take a sandwhich with me or C) avoided Tonya and ran like hell out of the piso so i can eat lunch with my friends, I head for the metro.

It is about a 15 minute walk to the closest metro. In order to get to Sol (the center) I have to transfer metros twice which takes me about 30-45 minutes. That is not a lot of time compared to some of my friends. Most of my friends here live in a place called Boadilla where they have to take a bus, to another bus, to an hour long metro ride to get to the center. Central Madrid is our playground until about 3-4 when everyone has to head back. 

I have to be back at home for my girls at 5. That usually mean I am running from the metro stop back to my piso at 455! Marissa (my host mom) goes back to work at 5 and Tonya goes home leaving me and the two girls alone. We have a snack (strawberries and nutella all day every day) and do homework. Tuesdays and Thursdays the girls have swimmingw which takes up about 2 hours of our time. Other than that, after homework the girls watch TV as I look at colleges, and degrees, and try to decide what I want to do with my freaking life. Then afterwards I bathe the girls. This is pure torture I am put thorugh every single day. There is screaming, yelling, clothes being thrown everywhere, and water everywhere. After that 30 minute ordeal I ahve to brush the girls hair. You would think this would not be a problem, but oh it is! I do not know what 8 and 6 year old girls do that gets their hair into literal knots, but they do it every day! Combing both of their hair takes me literally, no joke about another 30 minutes. This is also filled with yelling and screaming and leave in conditioner getting everywhere! 

After that ordeal is overwith we wait not so paitently for their parents to get home. Marisa and Alex arrive home around 9-930 and we have dinner. I then stay up until about 11 talking with Marisa about things. Lately she has taken to quizzing me on the names of the silverwear in Spanish. Then the girls go to bed and I am free to stay up and skype my friends and family. 

It really isn't a bad deal I have going on over here! I do about 2 hours of homework with the girls a day and thats as far as that goes! I do more than most Converstaion Corps I know though. I bathe, feed, and put the girls to bed. I know au pairs here who do not even do that much and they get paid! I do not mind it though and I would not trade any of it for a second. I love these girls, this family, and the life I have developed here! I will sure be missing it.