Mum you would be so proud. I was once a little girl who ate only chicken tenders, and now I am a seasoned eater.
I have tried many new new things in the few days I´ve been here, and looking forward to trying many more. We typically have some combination of eggs (juevos) and jamon (ham) for desayuno (breakfast), and usually bocadillos for lunch, which is bascically a sandwhich but on french bread. Maria goes to the supermarket everyday and buys just enough fresh meat or pescado (fish) for dinner. She always buys fresh french bread and veggies, so good! Today for lunch we had soup. In it was some sort of fish, oysters and potatos, Sounds gross but it was delicious. It makes me laugh because in Spain, it is typical that you eat some sort of sweet with every meal. I remember my dad getting frustrated with me trying to get me to eat all of my dinner. Here Maria is getting frustrated with the girls trying to get them to eat their ice cream. Connor would be in heaven.
This evening we went to Eivissa to go shopping and to check out the city. Maria asked me what I eat in Texas, and of course i told her BBQ and Mexican food. Yesterday we had BBQ, I should say spains version of BBQ, so Maria wanted to have to Mexican food. A new place by her work just opened up called Taco Paco and she wanted to try it, so off we went.
I try to be polite and just suck down whatever´s given to me, but good god this was the worst thing I´ve ever eaten. The girls got hamburgers and they were fine. I got chicken quesadillas thinking I was playing it safe, but inside was half melted shredded cheese, cold chicken and some weird version of hot sauce. Maria got a burrito and I would try and explain it to you but I honestly can´t tell you what the hell they put in it. We laughed it off though, got some good desert and went back to the house. On the way home Elena out of no where goes, taco paco es muy malo. This might be funnier if you picture a 5 year old half asleep little girl with the softest, cutest voice saying it, or maybe I´m just a cheap laugh when it comes to little kids. Anyways, I´m excited for tomorrow because we´re going to a secluded beach where the family says there are no tourists.
One of the parents from the school said that on Wednesday, an exchange student from London that is my age is coming to stay at her house for the summer. The girls have a performance at school that day, so I´m supposed to meet her there. I´m sure she´ll be cool, and I´ll just be thankful to have someone to talk fluently with. It´s so weird, only being here a few days and already my brain is starting to think differently. Everyone speaks spanish all the time, of course, so I´m always thinking in simpliest terms so that I can translate easily. I have to think about everything I´m going to say for a couple minutes before I acutally say it, so that kind of sucks. But it´s been motivation to become more fluent. I´ve been studying at night and now I carry around a little book and pen because Maria tells me words all the time.
My body´s still on a weird schedule. It´s 1:30am here and everyones asleep, meanwhile I´m ready to rumble. I guess I´ll read a little, maybe watch some spanish television. Until next time, all my love and more! Chao-chao.
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