From the beautiful island of Tenerife

I´ve been here just over a day now and Soo much has gone through my mind. From the very tight one way streets with intense driving, to palm trees and european architecure....and oh wait SPANISH. Lots of Spanish. Last night at dinner (we ate out, it was a bit odd though, the restaurant had lots of little rooms with sometimes a few tables, and sometimes just one like the one we ate in, probably so i had some chance of understanding what my host family was saying :) ) everything in regular speed Spanish sounded like jibberish, but finally today i´m starting to be able to make out some words (although i don´t have a big enough vocabulary to understand other peoples conversations generally, just get the gist).
After the family get together today (LOTS of people all speaking extremely fast spanish...mi madre!) Carmen and I went shopping and I got my first spanish shirt from SPAIN. After shopping we hopped on the wawa (what they call there transit here, its Canarian slang) and went to a square in town near my families house (which is amazing by the way but more on that later when I have the time and brain power to figure out uploading pictures and/or videos, one thing right now though, they have a ´solarium´which is bascially just an open roof at the top of their house which is three stories high, from there you can see everything, the view literally made my jaw drop) Carmen had told me that spanish kids do not hang out at houses because its too nice, but I didn´t know how much she meant it until we got to the square. I wish I would have taken a picture or video, it was quite the site! The square was at least twice as full of teenagers as any hallway at Capital High School! We didn´t see Juan though, he must have gone somewhere else with his friends since we talked to him. Carmen spoke english with me this afternoon which was a nice break after all the constant, rapid, multiple people talking spanish. Once I have more vocabulary (like after school starts) we will speak Spanish together). Thats all for now, although this jet lag is killer! I was so tired I nearly fell asleep a lot of times earlier today, and now that its day time at home I´m hyper! Aye, well I´m sure that i´m still secretly tired so i´m going to go read and try to relax. I´m so excited, I am FULLY in love with this city, and all the people I met have been extremely gracious (and yes, everyone does hacer besos (kiss cheeks) I think i´ve touched more cheeks today than I have before in my life :) ).