This are two e-mails I wrote when I first got here and are my first real posts
Things are good here. My family is really nice and actually they are mormon! Our house is a little ways out of the city so there is a lot of space, but it takes a half hour by bus to get to class. It´s a pain, let me tell you. A few interesting things: 1. EVERYONE smokes, it is disgusting, even twelve year olds and middle schoolers in their catholic school uniforms. It is not at all taboo to blow smoke in your girlfriend or even your baby´s face. Seriously, we saw this. 2. Everyone lets their dogs poop all over the sidewalk. And now in Sevilla, random dogs just run around and poop. 3. A very popular hairstyle here is the mullet. Only the coolest of the cool guys have them. Mohawks, sometimes combined with mullets, are also very popular. They are called rooster crests here. Girls sometimes even have mullets, it isn´t rare at all! A mullet also usally signifies a facial or ear piercing of some sort. The more the better. But even semi-normal looking people or school children will have a facial piercing. 4. Our host parents have a dog name ¨Lovely.¨ 5. There is a path by our house and Kristen (my roommate) and I have already gone running. My legs HURT! 6. Our room has pink beds and green walls . 7. there is bidet in our bathroom! Sick! I refuse to use it. 8. People here drive like maniacs! It is worse than mexico by far. I constantly feel death coming. Parking is also an issue. People feel that if their fourway flashers are on, they have created a parking zone. So there are always people double parked or in no parking zones.
9. Our apartment complex has a pool and a tennis court, and our apartment has three floors. There is a lot of space compared to most of the other students, so even if the bus ride is long, I guess we´ll do homework.

Things are up and down with my family. They are mormon, but we are sure how seriously. When we got in the car this morning, it was very apparent that the teenaged boy, Junior, had taken it out partying the night before and it smelled strongly of smoke and there was a bottle of gin in the backseat. Ricardo took us too and from church, but didn´t actually go. When Ricardo came to get us he got out to talk to the members and they all hugged him and talked to him, so it seemed like he couldn´t be too inactive, but then on the way home he left us in the car to buy bread. The mom has been traveling and will get back tonight, so we´re still waiting on her. More later!