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Published: September 14th 2008
This has just been crazy. I feel like I have already been here for like a month. Siestas are incredible. Sometimes, after lunch, we just go to sleep for like four hours. It isn't even that we were all like oh we should try doing what the locals do. I think it is partly a result of the heat and the big midday meal, then also being in a new place and slammed with needing to learn spanish. Plus, there is nothing to do anyway during siesta hours. Everything is closed!
So I slept a lot last week. It gets you through the long week. At the beginning of the trip I was really losing weight, now I am definitely gaining weight. I think it will all get stable soon. It is so crazy to be eating such new foods with such different hours and schedules!! We had the spanish lasagna again the other day and,well, that is my new favorite food... oh except you will see a picture in this blog of one of my other favorite dishes we had this past week... mmmmm... I also had a new favorite ice cream flavor the other night. It is called
galletas maria. That means "maria cookies," which would be like "plane jane cookies" in english. Maria cookies are the standard vanilla cookies and the ice cream flavor is amazing!! aaahhh!!
I just got back from Portugal tonight. It was quite an experience. None of my roommates went on the trip so I was really stepping out of my recent comfort bubble that I have made here in spain. I HAD to meet new people. I had a really hard time at first. I was just so annoyed with how cliquey it was when hello we are in college. It is just like the people who are going crazy with the 18 yr drinking age are really into themselves and it makes it hard to even see if there are other people. Well, I found them. One of my new friends, Sarah, is also a second year and she is engaged to be married in August to her fiance who lives in el salvador. They are really getting married now so that they can be together because it is so hard for someone from el salvador to get a US visa. WOW crazy story. Then this other girl, Mira, lives
in Spokane, is in love with Portland, and is here finishing her sppanish degree because she already graduated last year. Her spanish is amazing and she is really mature and not crazy drinking. She really brought me in to her circle of friends. We went out for seafood in Lagos, Portugal, and had a great time.
Anyway, so I got pretty homesick in portugal, but not necessarily for home. Just for not there. In fact, I am kind of glad I went for how much it made me think about liking life in Sevilla!! lol jk... it got better really fast. I am talking homesick for an hour! We went to see the sunset at the "end of the world." This is the cliff off the coast of the iberian peninsula that was thought to be the edge of the world before columbus sailed the ocean blue. It was so beautiful. The beaches were also definitely the most beautiful I've been to. You'll have to trust me; I'm not sure the pictures will do it justice! The language wasn't really an issue because portuguese understand spanish and speak english. We spoke english... lol.
It is my dad's birthday
today!! Happy birthday daddy! I miss you and love you.
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Emily
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so jealous
Hey Kaetlin-Luv all the pictures, you look like you are having a blast. I asked if I could come over with your Mom for Christmas too, and I even offered to be Bradens nanny-but he's a little old for a nanny-dang it! so I guess I can just live through your blog. Keep the pic's coming-Em:)