I'm here!

Hello all,
I've decided to start a blog, since there are so many of you who gave me your email addresses, I would never have time to email everyone, so I think this is better, but feel free to email me if you want.

I've been in Croatia for 2 weeks, now, and I love it so much! It's a very pretty country, and coming from Colorado I have pretty high standards. the countryside is really green, with hills and many small farms. The city itself (Zagreb) is also really nice. It's way prettier than any of the pictures I'd seen, so colorful! Along with the browns greys and whites of most cities, there are also buildings in so many shades of yellow, orange and red, even some blue. There are also lots of parks interspersed within the city streets.

I love my host family, My host sister, Mirela is almost the same age as Raina, and my host mother speaks quite a bit of English, which is nice right now, since my Croatian is virtually nonexistent. I can say some words, but Croatian grammar seems really different, so I haven't really figured out how to string them together, yet. Yesterday, I learned how to seay it's raining-Pada kiša! I can understand more than I expected though, and I start croatian class tonight, so hopefully I'll get it down soon.

I have to go to class, now, so I'll get back to thins later.

Chandra