Host family!

The information about my Quito family just arrived from MSID. My parents are Carlos, 46, and Consuelo, 42, a housekeeper. They have a daughter, Angelica, 20, and a son, Danilo, 18, both of whom are students.

I'm excited and scared all at once. These are real people whose real home I will be living in for at least two months. The kids are almost exactly my and Patrick's age, the parents only slightly younger than my own.

I wonder what type of neighborhood "Quito Tenis" is. I wonder how far I'll be from school or my American friends. I wonder what type of relationship I'll have with them. People say this could be the best part of the semester and I hope it is. I want to live with new and different people who still feel like family, since I've realized just in the past 24 hours how much I'm going to miss my own.