It's Maddie and India, preparing for our month-long adventure in Zaragoza, Spain. For almost a year now we have been planning to attend Zaragoza's own Sacred Heart, Sagrado Corazon. We will be spending the first hours of 2010 on a plane traveling 3664 miles away from home. We are prepared to face the inevitable language barrier as Gringas (Americans) in Spain. With the help of six years of Spanish classes and the occasional glance at our Spanish-English dictionaries, we hope to learn and enjoy the people, culture and food of Zaragoza.

Colegio Sagrado Corazon de Jesus: The school we will be attending.

http://www.fsbarat.org/

Monday, January 4, 2010

Exotic Animals

I forgot to add this story to the Spanish post, but we visited an exotic pet store. It was so sad! There were crocodiles, pythons, albino boa constrictors, chinchillas, chameleons and huge spiders. They were all in tiny terrariums. I even found myself feeling sorry for the 15 foot snakes that couldn't even move in there 5x5 terrariums. There were also the smallest little puppies that were all sleeping in the front of the store. When I raised my camera to take pictures of the animals, the woman rushed over and grabbed me by the shoulder to keep me from taking any photos. It is definitely not legal to buy a pet crocodile to raise in Madrid, so I took a few pictures on the sly. I wish my shutter didn't make so much noise. I will put up the pictures that I have, but if anyone reads this who wants to talk to Ana Roman, tell her that I was tempted to buy her a chinchilla, but I didn't think I could get it through airport security.
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