Yes, I actually did do tarea (homework) pretty much all day on Thursday. I started in the morning with grammar, then I headed to the locutorio (internet café) to skype my dad. Dad isn’t feeling very well :0( so his voice was kind of scratchy, but it was nice to talk all the same. I talked to Kendra as well, whose foot is feeling better (yay!) so she’s back to swimming like a maniac.
I got back to my tarea after that. For Latin American Lit I read a story about a girl who was neglected as a child, everyone thought she was lazy and an idiot, she married her dad’s best friend who was embarrassed of her, and she lived a miserable life only being comforted by the tree outside her bedroom window that would tap on the window in the wind and to her it sounded like different types of classical music. After they cut the tree down she left her husband. That’s pretty typical of the literature of this culture, depressing. I ate comida (that’s what they call lunch here, not almuerzo like in Latin America) which was a bocadillo with calamari and tomatoes. I was not too much a fan of that combination on a bocadillo.
Alicia received a paquete (package) in the mail, but she only got the slip in the mail here because she had to go and pick up the package at the post office. We weren’t sure where the post office was, but after about an hour of explanation from Lucía (of which in the first five minutes we already had all of the information we needed) we had a general idea of where we had to go.
We watched pasapalabra, in which someone actually won the grand prize, which was really exciting to watch. For la cena we had a baked pasta dish with ground chicken, sauce, and cheese, and ensalada of course. After la cena there was a debate about the Spanish economy between the Partido Popular, which is the conservative party here in Spain and the PSOE which is the liberal party. I took notes on it to share in economics clase because we’ve been talking a lot about the different policies of the political parties, so it was interesting to hear firsthand. We had an excursion the next day, so Alicia and I went to bed early.
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