No big travel events in the last two weeks but more culture than you can shake a stick at. Halloween is not celebrated here in Spain, but All Saints Day is. We had November 1st off from school and I went to the farm of another ISU student´s host family. We picked olives, scared sheep, and even skinned a rabbit. I did not skin the rabbit, I just watched. Oh, and it is not really a rabbit, but a large jack-rabbit of the Spanish variety. Juan Miguel, Chelsea´s host dad, got the rabbit just that morning. A professor of ours complained to us about how the American-style Halloween is taking over Spanish traditions of All Saint´s Day (like roasting chestnuts and going out for a picnic--in my defense, I ate chestnuts while at Chelsea´s parent´s farm),
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