The Americans are coming!

I have been SUPER busy during the last two or three days.  Why?  It’s easy: today I have a couple American friends coming to stay the night and I’ve used the last day or so to get my apartment clean, make sure I have food in the refrigerator (since I’m a single guy, sometimes my fridge is a little bare), and generally “prepare” for their visit.  In fact, I’ve done so much preparing that you would think Zapatero himself was going to show up at my door. 

I usually try pretty hard to integrate myself into the “Spanish” lifestyle and really make an effort to not be one of those expats who lives in Spain but only associates with other people from his home country.  In fact, I’d say that here in Spain about 99.9% of my contact is with Spaniards and I almost never talk to anyone from the USA.  Soooo, this visit from the Americans will be sort of a “nice change.”  It will give me the chance to socialize with some of “my people” and will kinda “remind” me a little of where I came from.  After all, no matter how long I live in Spain I’ll always still be American and it doesn’t hurt every once in a while to have a little contact with that culture. 

At least that’s what I think.  Do any of you other expats have an opinion? 

Hasta luego,
–Chris
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