lunes, 8 julio

I got up earlier than usual today so I could get to the wifi at the University to tell everyone that I made it home safe. I also posted about Madrid. In class today we did a small review session. After our review session we worked with a comic that was about a love story similar to a soap opera: two people fall in love at first sight, he's in an accident and a coma for 2 years, she falls in love with his doctor, and when he wakes up he falls in love with her friend. We then had to write an ending to the story. Julia, Erin, and I decided that I should write for soap operas because I planned a double wedding and then 20 years later their kids get married. We listened to a couple of songs by Lola Flores and read her biography. And then we made up our biographies as if it was the year 2070. I said that I was a professor for 30 years and then wrote a book, but one kid in my class said he moved to Jupiter, which was hilarious. We then got an assignment; on Friday we have another speech and this one is about a past event in our lives. We finished the day by listening to some songs in preparation for the final fiesta during our last week in Spain.

For lunch today we had two courses plus dessert! For our first course we had potato, pepper, onion, and hard boiled egg salad which was really good and then for our second course we had fish and chips, I mean, fries. I'm not a huge fan of fish but it was alright. And then finally we had dessert- fruit! This fruit tasted like a peach and was shaped like a mini pumpkin. I took a little siesta before meeting Olivia on the bus. We stopped at McD's for McFlurries since we were so hot and they have different types of ice cream and add-ins here; my was with what they called Smarties, but were really a candy-coated sweet, and caramel drizzle. We then headed over to the University to finish planning Valencia for this weekend. We looked for a hostel for 9 people and transportation to and from Valencia. After making some tentative plans, Colby needed to go to the store called "Taste of America" to get some things to make dinner for his host mom. I started to crave peanut butter and frosting. After Taste of America we stopped and got Mazapan- my favorite! our group spilt up because it was nearing some people's dinner time and the rest of us when on a wandering adventure and stopped in a few shops to look at leather bags and other souvenirs. I've gotten to the point where I can wander through the streets without getting too turned around which is amazing seeing how I can get lost in Lincoln.

For dinner I had the fried mozzarella sticks that I've had before with the amazing tomatoes on a salad. I also was a little dehydrated so I downed an entire CamelBak bottle and two glasses of off-brand-coke-soda-pop-drink; I really son't know what it is- it's carbonated and brown and delicious. After eating I dashed off to meet some friends at Enebro for sangria and tapas.

Love y'all!