Here
Comes the Sun, Week 2: Wednesday
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| Medieval bridge in Simancas |
Lunch:
Sunny side up egg on rice with bread and a dessert called “natillas,”
which is a kind of eggy pudding with cinnamon on top.
We
went to the beach for an hour to lay out and read, then went to
school for movie night, which was “El hijo de la novia,” or The
Son of the Bride.
Supper:
Chicken noodle soup, bread, watermelon, and “empanadillas de jamón
y atún,” or small fried pockets of ham and tuna, which were
amazing.
Mercedes'
daughter is here and she was talking about how picky of an eater she
is (she says she'll only eat four things). She said all the students she has
eat and like everything she makes, but her own daughter barely eats
anything!
Run:
2.25 miles
The
Food is Looking at Me, Week 2: Thursday
In
literature I had my first test today. I didn't do perfect, but it
went fine.
Lunch:
Chicken cooked in white wine with french fries
In
Spain, if you're walking towards someone on the sidewalk or street,
they don't move out of the way. If you play chicken with a Spaniard,
you will always move first or just run into them. I wonder what
happens when two Spaniards are walking towards each other, because I
don't think anyone ever moves.
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| Medieval bridge in Simancas |
In
the afternoon, we met the guys at the beach and laid out for a long
time and waded a bit in the river. After, Bailey and I went
shopping. We both bought one shirt each.
The
one fear I had before coming here was eating a fish or some type of
food that was whole on the table in front of me, that still had eyes
and all its parts. Well, tonight we had shrimp, which I LOVE to eat.
However, tonight on the table in front of us were shrimp that still
had their eyes, heads, tails, leg things, and feeler things. Bailey
took the first one, and Mercedes showed us how to eat them: rip off
the head, the tail, the leg things, and peel off the harder skin on
the outside. We took it really well and ate a couple as I tried to
avoid looking at them, but as soon as Mercedes went to the kitchen to
get something, we looked at each other in horror! I was a little
traumatized. They tasted great, but it was difficult for me to take
them apart. I now appreciate what has to be done to shrimp to eat
them, and I still love the taste, but I will never look at them the
same way again.
Simancas,
Week 2: Friday
This
morning I had a history test and it went really well.
Lunch:
Potatoes, scalloped, and pork chops
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| Castle in Simancas |
We
met Alex, another girl from the school, at Plaza Zorilla and took a
city bus to Simancas, a little town just outside of Valladolid. To
get into town, we crossed a medieval bridge from the middle ages.
The town is built on the side of a hill and has incredibly steep
streets. We walked up them to the castle, which was impressive on
the outside. The inside was a little disappointing though because it
had been turned into an archive, they made the interior look modern,
and we only got to go in two rooms. We also walked to the cathedral
and took a few pictures, and met an older couple from France there
that took a picture of us. We walked back down to the edge of town
to check out a cemetery that looked impressive from above, but it was
already closed for the day.
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| Cathedral in Simancas |
We
took the bus back to Valladolid and got frozen yogurt at Smöoy
again. Just yesterday, we read in the newspaper that Spain is
raising its taxes from 18% to 21%. Mercedes said it has never been
like this before. We saw on the news that there are protests all
over Spain. At a plaza near the frozen yogurt place, a large group
of people was forming, including the police, and people were
protesting over megaphones. We avoided the crowd and went home.
Supper:
salad, eggs, watermelon, bread
I
can't believe we've already been here two weeks. It has gone so
fast. Tomorrow we're taking a school trip to Segovia!
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