Spring seems to have arrived in Zagreb, bringing flowers out of the ground and people out of their houses. Walking to school, I see children playing in the many parks among the appartment buildings, and the old men back out on their boci ball courts. It really is ubsurdly warm for february--I can go out in a teeshirt during the day--though I have been a bit ambitious and end up shivering when the sun goes down.
To continue my update, I switched host families a while back, but it wasn't terribly climactic. I swiched families with one of the other exchange students, so I already knew the family, and they're great. My host mom, Janet, is British, and is constantly introducing me to people from all over the world. Everyone speaks English, so I have gotten a tad bit lazy about my Croatian, but it's still coming, and I almost always speak to my host father, Tomislav, in Croatian. I have three host siblings: Beka (9), Sara (13) and Adam (15), plus another one in Brazil, who I will hopefully get to meet before I leave. My house is much noisier, fuller and there are always people around. I love the company. Unfortunately, that, plus the fact that we are way on the edge of town and it is quite a haul to go anywhere means that I have developed a tendancy to opt out of leaving the house.
