Meeting up with the Diller family

It is now the first day at school and we are right now in the middle of english class. We are following Peter and his classes for the most part, in the morning block he had a test though, so we had history class instead. In this very moment they are having a semi-test so i thought this would be a good time to fire up a post to the blog!
This post is not going to be about the school though. Okay maybe a little, but I'd primarily like to talk about the host family meeting-event we had yesterday. We left the hostel monday morning at around 10 o clock, where a bus picked us up. We drove to Muir Woods, which is a national park and after that we took the long drive down to Salinas, to visit the Steinbeck Museum. Prior to our trip we had a master class about John Steinbeck, so it was an obvious conclusion that we had to visit the museum. We were at the museum for about an hour and then we left for Menlo-Atherton High School to meet up with our host families. I am living with the Diller family consisting of Peter, Nathalie and Jeff. Peter has a sister as well, Lauren, but currently she goes to the University of Oregon, so she doesn't live at home
We are 2 students living with Peter, me and Emil. We both have our own room and our own bathroom too. The house is just enormous. In the backyard there is an outdoor jacuzzi, a pool and a tennis court where you can play basketball as well. On the terrace they have a table tennis table as well. There are 2 garages, of which one of them is built into a man-cave for Peter and his friends., where they can play Xbox and fusball. In the other garage Jeff has his new Tesla and an old but well tended and great looking Corvette. In total the family has 5 cars (that we know of). I just find that pretty amazing considering most danish families only have one car.
Nathalie, Jeff and Peter are all really cool. They are very accomodating and they always make sure we have everything we need and even more. There is no awkwardness, i actually feel like i have known them for much longer than i have, which is just fantastic. Nathalie is a full-time housewife and has come up with several ideas for things she can take us to, for instance, The Facebook offices and Peters baseball game at wednesday. I am really looking forward to that, but also spending the days with the family in general!

Written by Arne Emil

Picture taken from the backyard, you can pretty much see the house in it's whole, only missing the garages in the back.

We had the great opportunity to try out their outdoor jacuzzi the first evening with the family!