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I am not kidding when I say that my Saturday and Sunday were boring. I basically did a lot of tarea and estudiando (studying) since 3 essays were due Monday and then there are midterms the rest of the week. I wasn’t feeling particularly motivated on Saturday since it was a gorgeous sunny day and warmer than it has been in a long time. Lucía saved me by showing me the roof of the building where there’s a common area that no one uses during the winter (yes, 60 degrees counts as winter here) except to hang clothes on the clothesline. I stayed up there half the day in the sun doing my reading and enjoying the warm weather uninterrupted. I came down for la comida, for which we had paella with chicken and escargot. Neither Alicia nor I had ever tried escargot, but Lucía told us they were excellent so we went for it. I only had a few of the snails, which were okay, but not really my thing. They tasted typically like seafood and were obviously good quality but the texture just wasn’t great. Afterward I took a short siesta and then continued with my reading, which actually took me all afternoon until pasapalabra. For la cena we had sandwiches de chorizo, pavo y queso con tomate y lechuga (chorizo turkey and cheese sandwiches with tomato and lettuce). After dinner it was nose back to the grindstone until bed.
At bedtime Alicia and I were frustrated with our blinds. It’s not the biggest deal in the world but they let light from the elevator (which is right outside our window) into the room, and they’re broken so we can move them up and down but we can’t adjust them to different angles. More so than that, our beds are both made so that we’re facing directly toward the window. After messing with the blinds for a bit we gave up and turned our mattresses around instead so that our heads were facing the other way. This made the situation much better.
On Sunday we went back to work almost the moment we got out of bed. I did some reading while I was eating el desayuno and then finished up one essay and started another one before la comida. It was a much colder and uglier day complete with lluvia (rain) so we had a sopa de pollo y verduras con pasta (chicken soup with pasta and vegetables) and patatas con garbanzos (boiled potatoes and chickpeas). It was a nice way to break up the day.
Back to tarea, I did more reading and made some flashcards with vocabulario about facial features. They have a lot of different words for different types of noses here, like puntiaguda if your nose finishes in a round point, or chala if you have a really small nose. A professor Snape type nose is aguileña. I finished my economics ensayo before la cena. We had hamburguesas de pollo (chicken burgers) and manzanas (apples). Alicia had finished all of her tarea (lucky!!!) so she got to watch el telediario (the news) but I had to go and finish my tarea. I barely got everything done before bedtime (meaning, a bedtime at which I would get a decent amount of sleep). This week is going to be a lot of work.
At bedtime Alicia and I were frustrated with our blinds. It’s not the biggest deal in the world but they let light from the elevator (which is right outside our window) into the room, and they’re broken so we can move them up and down but we can’t adjust them to different angles. More so than that, our beds are both made so that we’re facing directly toward the window. After messing with the blinds for a bit we gave up and turned our mattresses around instead so that our heads were facing the other way. This made the situation much better.
On Sunday we went back to work almost the moment we got out of bed. I did some reading while I was eating el desayuno and then finished up one essay and started another one before la comida. It was a much colder and uglier day complete with lluvia (rain) so we had a sopa de pollo y verduras con pasta (chicken soup with pasta and vegetables) and patatas con garbanzos (boiled potatoes and chickpeas). It was a nice way to break up the day.
Back to tarea, I did more reading and made some flashcards with vocabulario about facial features. They have a lot of different words for different types of noses here, like puntiaguda if your nose finishes in a round point, or chala if you have a really small nose. A professor Snape type nose is aguileña. I finished my economics ensayo before la cena. We had hamburguesas de pollo (chicken burgers) and manzanas (apples). Alicia had finished all of her tarea (lucky!!!) so she got to watch el telediario (the news) but I had to go and finish my tarea. I barely got everything done before bedtime (meaning, a bedtime at which I would get a decent amount of sleep). This week is going to be a lot of work.
