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I spent the morning doing homework, which hardly depleted the montón that I had, but at 12 it was time to head to the internet café to talk to my parents. I got to talk to Mom, Bill, Dad, and of course, Pickford and Kip. I think the owner of the café (who lived in Texas and speaks perfect English) had a good time laughing at me talking to my cat. It was interesting though, because later when I was sitting in a park reading for class, and thinking about how I missed my pets a dog came up to me randomly, and I got to pet him. His owners (a couple) were nice, and didn’t comment or laugh at my imperfect Spanish, so it was refreshing.

After I had eaten almuerzo of a bocadilla de atún y tomates (tuna and tomato) I left the park and headed toward the Plaza de la Reina, where the cathedral is. I sat in the sun outside the cathedral and read some more for class, listening to conversations around me, noticing that there was a group of French girls on a school trip, and also a pair of Aussies hanging around taking pictures. A guy came up and spoke to me in French, and I understood that he was asking me for money, so I told him in Spanish that I didn’t speak French. Unfortunately, he then translated for me, so I told him I didn’t have any money. He and his buddy who had gotten a Euro from the lady near me moved on to the next group of people.

Later, when I was done reading, I walked over to the Plaza de la Virgen where there’s a fountain in the middle and sat down just watching and listening to the people around me. There were groups of Germans and Asians that took pictures of the fountain, and of course tons of Spaniards eating tapas in the taperías around the plaza. I found a librería with rebajas (sales) and bought a book for a Euro. I also bought some potato chips, a Spanish brand that is really good. I hope I’ll be able to find some when I get back to the US. I headed home to do more tarea before pasapalabra, which Geni almost won, but missed out by two words. She’ll probably beat it tomorrow. We had baked cauliflower (yummy!) and chorizo for la cena, and then returned to studying. I didn’t go to bed until late due to the large amount of tarea. I suppose I could have done more during the day, but I liked being outside and enjoying people watching and listening and such. I’ll just take a siesta during clase (kidding!).