Home-Stay

Pictures say a thousand words and I have over 600. So I'll let them do the talking when I get home for what happened between the last blog and the home stay.

Omgoodness. The homestay was by far one of the best experiences on this pilgrimage and even my entire life. I was given the opportunity to stay with a spanish family for 3 nights in the beautiful town of Sonseca.

How can I explain the love this family showed to us in words. It is almost incomprehensible. Well considering bar one none of them spoke english I can't really tell you in words... For the very practical reason that I didn't understand what they were saying oftentimes. So instead I'll describe some of their actions. Not only did my spanish mother (Mila) of our family raid our room for dirty clothes to wash. She took the liberty to sew to perfection all of the holes in our undies, jumpers and any thing else that showed imperfection.

My spanish father (Paco) on the other hand took on the task if driving us to all the events we needed to be at, while also catering for us till early hours of the morning with water melon and cerveza, while I used facebook to catch up on social life in general.

Our beautiful spanish sister Patry took us out on the town and showed us tremendous love by befriending us immediately. And after only spending a partial two days with her I'm sure we can call her one of our closest friends.

The spanish families in general showed unending love in their hospitality towards us, and would stop at nothing to ensure that we had the best time possible.

During this time we attended days in the diocese at as Orgaz which was awesome. We made rosary beads, scapulars, badges, and danced with a number if nations in the sweltering sun of spain

Similarly on the last night in sonseca, we all partied so hard and danced the night away with spanish girls who just loved to share there dancing style with us.

So in terms if fun and spirituality this has been one of the greatest experiences if my life.

Sam xx