Our Host Family

We love our host family here in Antigua! La Señora of the house is Maria del Carmen, and she lives with her son Manuel, his wife Ana Julia, and their two little niñas Ana Ines and Ana Jose. We are blessed to eat three meals a day with the family, practicing lots of Spanish and eating a wonderful assortment of foods. (We eat better here than we did in our own home!) We will live with the family for 6 more weeks as we continue to study Spanish here in beautiful Angitua.

Roberto is the family parrot. His jaula is outside our room, although he can be heard no matter where you are in the house. Roberto loves to whistle, speak, scream and sing in a mixture of Spanish and a native Mayan language. He has learned to say "Susana" (Jeannette's Spanish nickname), copying two-year-old Ana Ines.