Last night I found a
little cockroach in with my night guard. It was just a small one, but still
pretty gross so I washed my night guard very well before I put it in my mouth.
I guess it must have crawled in through one of the little ventilation holes and
decided it was a nice small dark place to hang out. I didn't manage to catch it
afterwards so I really hope it doesn't feel the need to revisit my stuff.
Today at Dile again.
More Spanish. I feel like I'm losing confidence in Spanish speaking abilities,
but it might just be that I'm trying to say more complicated things and talk in
past tense. Conjugating verbs is still not absolutely immediate for me, especially
in non present tenses. And I have to remember that I can use "am
eating" or "is doing" because that tense doesn't exist in French
which is the framework I base most of my Spanish on. I can pretty much
understand most of what's being said to me though.
We did grammar, and
talking, and that sort of stuff, then to "Zuma" clothing store to
practice vocabulary revolving around clothes. The clothes there are very
stylish. Everyone here has a fashion sense. Zuma is also in what looks like an
old stone fancy building like the ones I saw yesterday with our group. A
department store in an ornate stone building.
I always feel a bit
awkward when Maribel is making food because I think I should help but the
kitchen is so small that really I would just be getting in the way of
everything. So I set the table and try to help in other ways.
We actually have
time to nap today because we meet at 5pm at the round church. I've never been
so excited to sleep. I choose nap time over reading King Lear and calculus
homework (which I do have to get done, but not today). I should remember to buy
gifts for people soon…
Department store: El
Corte Inglés. Six floors. They have a sports section which is basically all the
clothes us west coasters would wear on a regular basis.
Coats, fleeces,
practical clothing.
Santa Semana is
coming up, Holy Week. El día de el Padre is a chance for stores to offer huge
savings apperently. There are signs everywhere about savings on Holy Week. It's
so cultural.
They have 90% Lindt
chocolate! Yes! (and 99%) it tastes a bit different here. Better, I think. I
also bought some really nice olive oil and fancy flavours of lindor to bring
home.
I just had one piece
of milk chocolate. It's so sweet. Wow.
We're doing a pub
crawl, but with tapas bars. Every second store is a tapas bar. We went to a
Mexican one first, I got a rice quesadilla that was deep fried cheese,
basically. Pretty good. Very salty. There was wifi there, so I was able to
message and snapchat my mom and my friends on the other side of the earth from
a small tapas bar in Salamanca. Isn't the internet amazing. This place we're at
now though, across the street from the "Van Dyck" Mexican style tapas
bar is really good. I got Brie cheese deep fried with almonds. Not something I
would think to put together, but super amazing. I totally have new ideas for
Brie now. Fried Brie with nuts, new breakfast. I also got some chicken, so now
I'm really full. Good thing dinner is at 10pm. I like this system of naps and
late dinners. It's like two mini days filled with mini meals (tapas/pinchos)
and one big meal in the middle.
A bet has been made
between Henderson squared, Zoe, Matteo, Tyler, and a couple others. The idea is
to only speak Spanish, except "como se dice" for certain words, all
day tomorrow starting the minute we step off the bus on our day trip to Segovia
and Ávila. It should be a really exciting trip, one of the cities still has
it's medieval wall. The bet should be good too: any losers have to do fifteen
push-ups in the plaza Meyor while singing Oh Canada. Personally I want to see
Henderson do this. Actually just everyone. In any case this should be good. At
least we're not playing assassin, now that's a stressful game.
No dinner for Eryn
and I tonight. Too many tapas (or not enough, because they're SO GOOD).
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