Acabo de llegar...

So I have officially been in Jerez de la frontera for twenty four hours, but I have still seen so little of the city. I am impatiently still in the adjusting phase and simply cannnot wait till my jetlag is over. My bedroom here is more of a loft abiding the third floor of the house. I also have a balcony maybe three times the size of my room just beyond some sliding glass doors. My room is decorated in black and white with red accents, most everything in the room appears to be from ikea and follows the practical, simplistic and yet stylish style that classifies most european homes, at least in my mind. Really the room is quite nice and just right for me.
The children I have been hired to play with are a girl, who is four and a half, and a baby boy who just turned one. The little boy and I took a walk through the park near our house today and together we discovered the beauty of the dancing water springing from the many fountains in the park. The park was quite large and a little wild looking with many large trees, but also well groomed with my paths, benches and smaller themed gardens within its grounds. Some of these smaller gardens had interesting names like the music garden, jardin de musica, and the romantic garden, jardin romantico, and even one called the forest garden, jardin forestal. Also found in this labrynth of a park are many peacocks and as we would turn a corner and see some, I loved to see the look of surprise and joy spread over the little boys face as we watched them simply walk around and eat grass. There were many mothers also walking their children and some even said, hola to me. I even saw one young couple strolling through the park and enjoying the same birds and flowers and the child and I.
Maybe one of the things I am most greatful for at this point is that the spanish here is not as hard to understand as I imagined, or at least not when I am awake enough for it to sink in!