Change of plans

I was supposed to go on a field trip with the program to El Escorial today. Didn't happen. For the first time in my life I slept through my alarm. I woke up right when the bus was leaving.

I almost started crying, but after this crazy week, I decided to take what happened as a sign that my body and mind need this day. There was nothing I could do at that point. The trip wasn't required, and I slept be best I have since I've been here. I need to realize what happens happens and sometimes I can't control it. I slept passed the time I could actually do anything. There was nothing I could do at that point. It was like crying over spilt milk.

So, I made my coffee and felt the most guilty that my host mom made me a sandwich for today. My host mom came in and I tried to explain to her what happened. And I told her I felt guilty about the sandwich, and of course her response was like, you can eat it anytime, there's no problem. I ate it for breakfast. I don't know if she fully understood, but she was very sweet and said that, although she doesn't like trains, maybe one day she would go with me another time. She was actually mad at my friends for not calling me to wake me up, which I thought was funny because why would my friends do that? Maybe I'll go when my family visits.

So, instead of visiting an historic palace, monastery, and museum on this beautiful first day of October, I played beauty salon with my host mom's granddaughters. Children especially have no sense of privacy, going through anything and everything they see, whether it's "Barbie/Estudiante"'s stuff or their grandmother's. My older host sister, Eva, and her two daughters came over this morning. My host mom was going to look after and cut the hair of her granddaughters while her daughter worked. The two girls, Ester and Saila, are adorable but almost complete opposites. I think they are 7 and 8, respectively. Ester is def more reserved and likes to help Pilar with chores and cooking, and Saila, while she tries to appear innocent, she is full of tons of energy and knows how to play people. She just decided to go on my laptop, and when I kindly said that I would appreciate it if she didn't, she was like "Why is the internet in English?" She didn't know there was English internet. The two girls also liked drawing pictures of me and putting them up in my room like little picture frames. Saila also carried around a jar of hot chocolate mix because they were going to have a snack here before lunch, but instead of drinking her hot chocolate because it was too hot, she spooned the mix into her mouth.

Saila gave me the spa treatment, which consisted of tucking tissues into my shirt like a peluqueria, caking my arms like frosting with cream, covering the cream in tissues, brushing my twisted hair with a comb, and putting my hair in pony and covering the ponytail in rainbow hair ties (gomas). While this was all going on, Ester was getting her haircut by my host mom, and Saila was running around getting beauty supplies from who knows where, including scissors. Saila also did my makeup after searching my own room for my little makeup purse. She even wanted to style an outfit for me, but I decided to draw the line there after my lips were smeared with sticky glitter lipgloss.

Then, it was Saila's turn for her haircut, and Ester asked me to style her hair. We had fun going through many different hair-dos, and she ended up having little french braids with a one of my sparkly headbands. Then they both wanted me to do their make-up, so we were all dolled up! When their mom got back, we had lunch, which was vegetable paella to mix it up. Also, the girls, who are extremely picky eaters, will eat the rice in it. It's so funny, they have no shame in saying something is disgusting. ¡Qué asco! It was nice talking to Eva for a little bit. She is naturally gorgeous, barely wears make up and her hair is naturally a deep brown. Tania, who is also very pretty, is much more into eye makeup and is dyed blonde. Eva said that she has the best arrangement for work because she drops the kids at school, works until they get out, and then is a mom the rest of the day.

Posting this on Sunday, now I have to write three papers for this week. I hope to write another post later because today is the one month anniversary since I arrived in Spain!! Lots to talk about! ¡Hasta luego!