lunes, 27 de mayo

Today started as any other dreaded Monday would...forcing ourselves to get out of bed after pushing the snooze button a good six times.  The weather didn't help much because it was overcast and was supposed to rain.  We had our normal schedule of classes today and for once used our break time to actually get a good amount of work done.  After classes we headed home for our lunch time with our family.  Gemma made a lovely meal of croquetas (our favorite), a fried egg, muchrooms, a wedge of cheese, and a little bacon.  I can't say how excited Jen and I were to see a simple egg on our plate...something we've been craving for a while now!  We enjoyed lunch and had some nice conversations with Jamel y Gemma.  They explained the festivals of Las Fallas and Tomatina to us.  Las Fallas is when huge figures are created out of cardboard and paper machey and in the town's plazas for 5 days and on the last day they are all set on fire, sounds pretty dangerous but they said it's all very safe.  Tomatina is the big food fight with truck loads of tomatoes in August in Bunol.

We laughed a little over the festivals and I decided to show them the new fad of 5k at home, Color Me Rad.  It was pretty cool to talk to them about it because it was just as new for them as the festivals here are for us.  It was funny as well when I tried to explain to Gemma what "rad" means in the United States.  She seemed to get a kick out of that.  After lunch Jen and I worked on a lot of homework and caught up a bit before laying down to rest.  We then wandered around the shops nearby and hung out for a bit.  I treated myself to some new shoes that I could not walk away from :)

After our little break from work we arrived back home to hang out with Gemma and do some more work.  Jamel left for his job in Peniscola again today and won't be back until Friday so we won't see him until Monday.  We are sad that we won't be seeing him for a week, the house is so quiet already.  While we waited for dinner to be ready we enjoyed a nice glass of vino blanco con Gemma and watched my favorite American show, Revenge.  Gemma just started watching it from season one and it was pretty neat to watch it in Spanish from the beginning.

The three of us continued to watch the show during a lovely dinner of homemade chicken soup.  We had some cheese and small breadsticks before along side the homemade "greek salsa" we tried the week before.  I love it all!  The chicken soup was like our normal chicken soup from home with carrots, broth, pototoes, and chicken except there were pieces of chicken in the soup and then we each had a chicken leg.  Now we are sipping wine with Gemma and having a relaxing night watching Revenge until bedtime.  Hasta manana!