Today was a nice, but unexpectedly nice day. Classes started out well, as I just had grammar class, and after conversation class..I like Thursdays :) Don' get me wrong, they are classes with work, but just less time to be sitting down in class like yesterday :) After clases, I met up with some of my friends from Concordia as we were trying to plan our trip to Paris which was to be next WEdnesday the 27 b/c we have a long weekend! I am So excited, however it is too bad b/c we were not able to book the train tickets, so we decided to scratch the trip for that weekend. Paris is on the top of my list of places tovisit, so i wil def go at some point, it is just figuring out when and being able to book it! it'll happen. But something else may come out of that lng weekend..so i will keep you posted :)
It was so nice i got to skype with Dad today..just so nice at times to see a familiar face and voice :) and recieve his awesome advice. Dad you're seriously the BEST dad and i love you so much. so i hope you know this..i do so much.
Julia made me macarones (macaronie noodles) with tomato sauce that had a twist to it,,it had like a pepper flavor that i actually really like..however this is the funny part..so just wait!...
so she's serving me, putting the macaronie in the bowl, and she fills just PLUMP full,,i can't even describe to you how much pasta there was in this bowl.prob 2000 calories worth haha! so of course i started eating ,,but i had told her, Julia, este es demasiado!!..(meaning too much!) it tasted great, and I ate bread with it b/c of course that is always wha we do at our house when we eat pasta and i love bread with the sauce,,but when she saw me do this..she said..'que terrible' no con pan! (how terrible..not withbread!) they don't do that here apparetnly i learned ! but i told her that i like it like this..i apologized cuz i didn't know if i was being disrespectful, etc lol and she said "oh no,,esta bien! esta bien!..(that's fine eat eat!!) But when she wasn't looking, (she was washing dishes and had her back to me,) i dumbed like half the bowl back into the serving dish b/c it was just WAY too much..prob could have fed 3 ppl ahahha!!! She didn't notice :)
This aftrnoon, it was wonderful again b/c i walked over to my friend Maja's piso to study. It's so nice to study with a friend. we do do our own thing, but it's nice to be with someone else. Then i got to do a little more skyping which was nice too.
I returned home around 8:00pm and i had some soup and an apple. Julia tried to feed me more (bless her heart) but i just couldn't :) !!!
Then, what the unexpected but awesome part of my day was was after la cena (supper) we walked over to Maribel's house..it's just down and around the corner. I didnt realize how much i missed her..i hadn't seen her since my first weekend here when she wasrunning around everywhere with me trying to get my suitcase, toilettries en as tiendas (stores), etc. It was SO good, and you guys,i feel so at home there. Her two kids are so wondeful too. --they both greeted me excitedly, and yesterday it was Inoa's birthday, so she shared some of her birthday treats with me (of course i loved this!) i had this amazing little choc. cookie that had choc frosting in the middle, and another little sugar ccookie type ofthing. If i can i will buy some b/4 i come home so you can see what they are like!
But what is really awesome is how they just welcome me into their home. Now I TRULY understand what it feels like to be a college student away with no one from home and then how amazing it is when a family invites you to be with them. Inoa is 14 now i think, and her brother Inaki is 11. They are just adorable, and Inaki was so excited --we talked about soccer (me getting barcelona , madrid, materials for friends, etc)and this is another funny thing i HAVE to tell you! so
Maribel and I were tlking,,it's so nice b/c i can tell her anything and she wants to do her best to help me..so i was telling her to offer my availability to tutor to families at her school, etc, etc, and we were sitting on Inaki (her son's ) bedwhile he was at his desk doing his homework. I'm impressed wth the spanish school system b/c his homework was a bit intense for an 11 or 12 year old, butstill :) so we're talking, and then he wanted to show me this project he'd just finished, and then Maribel noticed in his notebook that his teacher and made many comments about him lacking certain exercises,not finishing some things, etc..and boy let me tell you..Maribel ws not happy, scolding him, etc. Then he felt bad i think cz i was there, but i told him that if i were him i'd be nervous, and he seemed to smile then.But it was jut funny to see how another mom will scold her son (all in spanish which was amusing for me to listen too b/c i picked up on words thati don't usually here alot!) about laziness, ec..so i took notes! Then when their dad came home from work (he got home around 9pm..so late!) Inaki had to show his dad his lacking in his exercises, and do them..he is so cute though. Their dad greeted me too, and then Maribel and Inoa invited me to come on Saturday to her birthday celebrations.
I cannot tell you how excited i am to go do something with them! They are such a nice family, and it is so nice to have something to lookforward to and be included in, and plus i will learn somuch and be able to take many more photos!!
We are going Salinas, which is a small pueblo (a small little village) outside of Pamplona. I think it is a little drive, not toofar, but far enough. I am so excited to experience this. The house is in the family, was owned by Julia, and now she has her children owning it. They all go there for holidays, festivals, vacations, etc, and it has so many rooms that it can house all 4 of Julia' kids and their families.! I have heard so much about it but now can't wait to experience and see what it will be like, and with real spanish families! It sounds like we will play games, eat to celebrte Inoa's birthday etc. and she is just so nice, and wantsto help me..it's great! I am not sure yet if i will stay thenight there or return with Maribel on Sat. prob the latter. I will definitely fill you in.
But i am just so happy to be able to go here and experience this this weekend, since i really didnt have much to do! And it wil be great practice!
Tomorrow, i have classes, and then i want to run and walk in the park. I plan on studying in the afternoon, and then i will tutor the neighbor girls at 6pm :)
That is all for now, i better finish my literature homework and then get to sleep.
Lots of love,
Lauren
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