Last night I went to the intercambio at Flaherty's with Mary and Delaine. For those of you wondering, intercambio allows us to meet Spaniards that are learning english, thus we can practice our spanish with them and they can practice their english with us to help improve our conversational skills. Well, only one spanish person, my two friends, and I showed up for it, but that's okay because we all talked and it was helpful! Other than the fact that when I am with other people I tend to sit back and listen rather than talk, because I get embarrassed, but I tried a little!! Then I came home chatted a little with mi madre and went to bed. This morning I had class at 11 with Oscar and it was fine, we did an activity that was pretty entertaining. Then I headed home for LUNCH...read on. haha
So I am starving by lunch time because I don't really like breakfast and lunch is late here, and as I approach the table I become quite discouraged. There is a huge bowl of paella with mass amounts of seafood, probably still swimming amongst my rice. EW. There were seashells, actual SHELLS that I used to pick up on the beach in Florida when I was little amongst my food as well. I forced down a forkful of rice and tried to swallow without tasting; fail. However, the rice wasn't that bad, it was just trying to avoid the seashells and tentacles and squid legs amongst it. Luckily, like with every meal I had a hunk of bread to eat. Also, Maria made what seemed like zucchini, and it was just deep fried, kind of like tempura at Tsukasa (yum). It was really good though, and I just told myself it was zucchini because I enjoyed it, and if I thought about it being anything else I wouldn't have been able to eat it. haha Anyways, I don't like paella, I never will, and I hope it is never served to me again...but I think it will be. Plus, when Maria asked if I liked it I had to say yes, I would feel so bad saying no! HOW RUDE!
Anyways, then I had class at 5 but a few of us went early to walk around and we got some cafe con leche and sat in the SUN :) it was sooooo warm and amazing. I can't wait for it to warm up around here all the time, it is beautiful and so fun to walk through the streets when it's warm out!!!! And I can't wait for the beaches! WOO! Class was with Angel and it was culture and civiliation....I LOVE my professor and the class is actually pretty interesting, especially for a 'history' class! We even took a mini field trip today to the center of town and saw three pillars still standing from a temple from when the Romans ruled in Spain! SO NEAT! On the way home from class we picked up some major necessities: Cruz Campo (the main beer here), Vino Tinto (red wine), and Fanta Limon (lemon fanta to mix with the red wine to create TINTO VERANO!...my fav!)...tonight we will be drinking 'down by the river' haha sounds classy! And then heading to some bars in hopes of making SPANISH AMIGOS!!!! Maybe tonight will be more successful! And I get to sleep in tomorrow :)
Now for a laugh for all you readers: On my way to class today I was ATTACKED by a grasshopper on some serious steroids. This bug was HUGE and DISGUSTING! I'm just walking along and all of a sudden this thing the size of my shoe...ok maybe a little smaller...flew up and stuck to my jeans. I legitimately screamed and tried hitting it off my leg without actually touching it (because that's gross) but that didn't work so I had to use my hand after like 10 seconds of flailing about and yelling 'get this thing off me' it finally flew away. As I looked up after my flare-up I noticed an American student and an older Spanish man walking towards me in laughter. I was so embarassed and repeated lo siento and i'm sorry both in english and spanish to the passerbys....so awkward, but it makes for a funny story!
Oh also, my mama got to talk to my senora on skype today! so that was kind of fun that they got to meet virtually!! :)
Haaaaa!! Too funny Ta-Ta!!!
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