Frank Sinatra in Xela

My host family is really great. It´s amazing how much more fun we have the more Spanish I learn! Judith and Pepe are both in their mid fifties and retired with two daughters who live in the capital.

Pepe volunteers for the red cross and spends most of his time talking on his radio or running from the house to go somewhere. When he´s around to chat he tells stories about growing up in the big white house and about being a hippie in the 70s. He cracks himself up and has the cutest little school girl laugh which totally cracks me up.

Judith can be serious and loves to talk about politics and the state of the world, but she can also be the cutest giddiest person I´ve ever met. She has this Frank Sinatra CD that she loves to blast and dance around the kitchen to.

We have a new student, Ann, living in the house now who is 68. Last night, she and Judith were singing along to Frank and trying to teach me the words. It was totally awesome listening to Judith alternate between signing the words in Spanish and kind of sort of singing words that sounded like English.