I just ate that. Calamari. That I watched Carmen dismember and fry. And then as I nervously popped one (and I mean the ones with 8 legs) into my mouth, one of the little legs curled around my lip, and I had to suck it in to my mouth. YUCK. Carmen likes to offer me gross, new things to eat because she knows I promised to try everything, at least once. (Bad idea). But then again, I've started to like Octopus, Murcilla...and TOMATOES. (gasp!)
Ok, sorry for grossing you all out with that picture. It's really quite disgusting to look at.
The semester is winding down! Class for about 3 more weeks, and then exams, and then home! 1 month and 2 days, to be exact.
I went to a Real Madrid Futbol game last weekend and let me tell you...those people are NUTS. We walked up to a parking lot FILLED with motos and overweight men wearing leather pants. And they though they looked a lot better in them than they really did. It was against Malaga, who is the purple team, and we passed one dude wearing a purple frilly dress. If you're ever seen Greenstreet Hooligans, you get the idea loud and clear about the enviroment at a game. We sat in the Malaga section because those were the best seats available, although they were still in the nosebleed section. People were chanting in spanish and I just couldnt understand a word. Cat, Ernesto, and I went, although none of us know how to play soccer, so we just cheered and booed when everyone else did as a general rule. There was one play that everyone was cheering for, so we did too, but when I asked Cat what happened she replied saying "i dont know! but everyone else is clapping, so I am too!" and it turns out the guy sitting nect to her could speak English, and he thought that comment was pretty funny. Belly-laugh funny. Before the game, Cat and I realized that we didnt know what color Real Madrid is, so we had to make sure we figured that out before the game actually started. They're white. Just so you know.
So I havent mentioned the Spanish point of view on the Obama victory!!! It was so funny. After being interviewed for the newspaper, and on TV (let me tell you, that was SO awkward. I felt like SUCH an idiot. SPanish media is so strange.), another woman called me to ask if I'd come down to the TV station for a live interview on an american student's perspective of teh elections, and sit in the little chairs and everything for the interview. But I had class, and I'm afraid to miss it because Lena is scary and crazy. That would have been cool, but I would have been crapping my pants in fright. But everyone is so happy Obama won! When I walked in to the homeless shelter, all the nuns greeted me and Cat and the door saying "ganas! ganas! ganas!" "you won you won you won!" we proceeded to jumped up and down and squeel for a few moments like little girls in the lobby of the shelter. I wish I had had a camera. Even the gentlemen and lunch kept talking about it! And still do! The would ask us "Have you voted? Have you voted? For Obama?" Which I thought was cool. Especially from one man who had just spent 7 days on a rowboat in the ocean traveling from Africa to Spain (it normally only takes 3, but he had gotten lost)...between our questions of how he got here and what not, he kept talking about OBAMA! it was magical. I couldnt believe the pics I saw of Grant Park. If I had been in teh states...I would have been there, too!
Family is coming in 10 days! I'm so excited. Can't wait to show everyone around Burgos and Madrid. And make you eat fun things like octopus and calamari...but I'll treat you to some excellent patatas bravas and croquetas, too. And then Kim comes the following weekend! I cant even believe how fast the time has gone. Lisboa this weekend, family, then Kim, then Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, and then I fly home Sunday of that next weekend! It's crazy!
Ok well i'm exhausted. I'll see you all, soon though!
Besos,
Cara
PS: more pics up!
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