September 02, 2009

A Spanglish Summer

It's so hard to come up with the opener of my blog entries. Why do I always feel the pressure for it to be something profound? Well for the sake of finishing this blog entry let me declare

***Untitled Profound Opener***

There that was easy.

(Side note: Listening to Ben Folds- You Don't Know Me, and LOVING IT!)

Well it's happening. I'm moving to Los Angeles. Well technically "we" are moving to Los Angeles. Yes, I'm a we. I have a boyfriend that I love very much but we share pretty much everything as of late and well...this is my story.

After what seemed like the LONGEST summer of my life I officially start my trek to La La Land tomorrow. For the last two months I've been living with my bf in an extra room at his parents house. Now in my attempt to be delicate let just state the facts. My bf goes to school full time meaning he is at school from 8am-3pm. During this time I am alone with my bf's father, a 72 year old Colombian man who speaks spanish and english is limited to the following words: "hello", "how are you", "good", and "food". That is all he has ever said to me. I was told last week by a family member that he speaks fluent english. So the apparent lost in translation is by choice. Moving on....The shower is never hot enough to make steam. The walls are PAPER THIN (yes this was cause for tramatizing/embarrassing breakfasts in the morning). Oh and the most important fact would be I do not have a car, so no means to escape *ahem* transport.

However, every home has its corks. The glue that holds this family together is love and respect. His parents welcomed me into their home, fed me, gave me a beautiful room to stay and treated me like family. From the bottom of my heart I am so blessed for everything they have done for me.

I lot of obstacle's have got in our way this summer. While car accidents, extra deposits, and health emergencies attempt to ruin our plans, we survived. Even though it pains me to say this, and it does, my bf is right. Everything just might be ok.