Wednesday, August 31, 2011

El Primero

This is the first of what should be at least a few blog posts detailing my experience in Venezuela on an AFS Student Exchange. My name is Nikolas Rusten. This is my story.
Venezuela - Isla Margarita

Tomorrow I will leave on what should be one of the best experiences of my life. I've known that I would be going to Venezuela for more than eight months, and for a couple of months I've known that I would be going to the Island of Margarita to live with a Venezuelan Family.

My host family live in the city of Porlamar, the largest city on Isla de Margarita with a population of about 100,000 according to Wikipedia. I've been in contact with my Host-Mother for just over a month, ish, and she seems really nice. I don't think my Host-Family speak any English, but I'm actually rather thankful for that. I've been learning Spanish and have enough to get by without any disasters, hopefully.

I leave tomorrow on a 12 hour plane flight to Buenos Aires, where I will spend the night, and fly to Caracas the next morning, for a two day arrival camp thing.

My next post might be from Buenos Aires, so goodbye until then.