Nerves

I'm currently wasting time before I make my way to the airport to pick up my mother. She'll be spending the next 13 days in Spain, just living the life. I'm super excited and it's going to be quite strange to have another piece of home here with me in Spain. I found that with my boyfriend visiting, it was so strange to show someone my new life here; simply because it's so different.

Also, we'll be spending the first night here in my homestay with my Spanish family. My real mom is about to meet my temporary Spanish mom. My real mom is not anything like the Spanish moms here. She doesn't stay at home, cook, clean, do laundry, and take care of everyone.

Ever since my parents divorced when I was about 17 years old, my mom and I have lived together just the two of us. My sister, being 6 years older hasn't lived at home since I was 13 years old. So since late high school, I've been basically roommates with my mom. Not to say she hasn't been a mother, but any 17 year old girl or boy that has two hands can do their own dishes and laundry and clean their own room. She didn't need to do those things for me, and that's just what I'm used to. However in Spain, this woman who is my host mom does all things a stay at home mom does.

So, here I am in my room in Spain wondering what my mom will think of all this? I wonder what she'll think of this woman who feeds me every day and irons my jeans. I wonder what she'll make of Spain. When my mom was in high school her family moved abroad and lived in France. I believe the Basque Country of Spain will probably not compare to anything she has seen in Europe so far.