Sabado 31 Enero 2009—I arose around 10:30 to meet Johan at the train stations so that we could go to the outdoor market. This week, the market was huge, filling about 400 parking spaces if not more with fruit/vegetable, belts, shirts, purses, shoes, and other vendors. Although the stuff is really cheap, it is low quality, so we stuck with just getting fruit. We ended up getting four narajas (oranges) that were seriously bigger than grapefruit for 50 cents. I think that they were the best oranges that I have ever had. After the market, we met up with two other people from the program and explored the neighborhood a little before we all had to head back for lunch with our host familias. After a siesta, I had planned to go to Benidorm, a city
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