11th January 2023

Also on the 3rd of January, my host sister arrived, the only thing I knew about her was that her name is Matilda, she is 17 years old, and she is from Italy. I thought she would be around 1.75m tall... well, she is simply 2 heads taller than me... I was a bit overwhelmed because she also looks much more grown-up. On the 4th, Ines also returned, she went back to Spain for Christmas. She has her own room and Matilda and I share the big room. I was supposed to have the single room, but since Ines is only 13 and Matilda will soon be 18, our local coordinator said that I should share a room with Matilda because the age difference between the two is too large. On the 6th, the three kings are celebrated in Spain, so they receive their presents on the 6th. Ines brought small gifts for us, a bracelet and a chocolate king, I found it super cute and the bracelet is really pretty. Before both of them came, I went to the movies with Lucie to watch Avatar 2 in 3D, specifically in the theater with the mixed seats, but I accidentally booked the one with regular seats... it was still nice and in 3D it's really worth it, personally I think the second one is better than the first one, but I guess everyone has their own opinion. Last Saturday we went to Cork and we really wanted to get our nails done, I chose the one on top but we will do it next Saturday because we need an appointment. After that, I got myself some sushi, I really wanted to eat sushi. Later, we went to a restaurant and the others wanted to eat falafel, Ines and I didn't, so Sophia, Ines, and I went to an Italian restaurant 2 stores down. It was really cute but quite expensive, I ordered a Spaghetti Carbonara... it was really bad considering how much it cost, but Ines and Sophia really liked theirs, maybe I just chose the wrong one. After that, we went to Plus and Minus (Bubbletae store) and we sat upstairs and played games for more than 2 hours until we had to catch the train, they have a lot of games available there. The day before yesterday, we had Spanish omelette, Ines brought 2 from Spain and a bunch of ham 😂.

Regards, Pia

11th January 2023                  11:08 PM