Hey all,
Sorry about my blog being in all spanish yesterday, I was so tired to write in English. I'm just going to sum up what I said, I'm not writing the equivalent in length. Yesterday was a day maddie and I have been anticipating with joy and dread. We were excited to wear our uniforms but that also meant Maddie's final day at school...However we went to school wearing our school skirts and two white shirts and black stockings, I have to say, we made quite a scene ahahha. The girls all loved our uniform because they think ours is much nicer than theirs. They used to have to wear a long grey skirt lower than their knees and a dark sweater over their shirts and they can only wear dark blue shoes. The boys did not really understand why we were wearing the uniform but they thought it was funny more than anything else. Sergio told both of us that he thought our skirts were very ugly, while garci commented that we would get in trouble because they were too short. I never would have thought that our skirts were short, but one teacher who did not know that it was our uniform almost got mad at us because girls are not allowed to wear skirts.
Break was madness. Maddie brought her camera and we ended up taking more than 400 photos. It was so crazy, fun and sad. We would start by taking a photo with just three girls and then millions of people would jump in and before we knew it, we had more than a hundred people per photo. I loved taking photos with all of the people who I had met over the past few weeks. It made me very sad to see all of the photos afterwards because I knew that half of the people who were in them I would never see again...
I am not remembering what I said yesterday very well but I do remember telling one story, a story about a visit to the library. Yesterday I went to the library to do some work while maddie was still in one of her classes. Moto, Golem and their little crew also were there. They sat at the same exact table as me for the whole free and stared at me. It was very very awkward for me because I would be trying to read a book and I would get that uneasy(ish) feeling of someone watching me. Whenever I looked up, Moto's grinning face greeted my confused one from a very close distance. It is very hard to concentrate when you have someone staring at you from a very close distance, I had to pinch myself to keep from laughing.
Again, I ended up writing very late at night and as a result I end quickly and in a very tired state. I will talk to you all either tomorow or the next day about maddies FInal day (depending on how tired I am). However for now, I leave with a swift goodbye and kisses on both cheeks!
India
p.s. I had asked in the last post whether or not it was still wierd to kiss on both cheeks in the U.S. because I have gotten so used to that custom I don't want to stop!
p.p.s. If my english is horrible, please excuse me... I fear I am forgetting how to speak correctly...
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Sadness
Hoy fue el final dia de escuela para maddie, que triste!!! fue una dia muy interesante y divertido! Maddie y yo hamos estado planeando lo que ibamos a llevar para todo la semana. Y esta manana yo llevaba mi uniforme de los estados unidos al colle. Todas las chicas tienen mucha celos porque nuestro uniforme es mas bonita que vosotras. Ellas llevaban una falda muy larga y gris... es un poco aburrida. Los chicos piesaban que nuestro uniforme es muy fea y graciousa, pero ese no importa nada a nosotras jaja. En almuerza maddie llevaba su camera y habia un fiesta con nuestro grado. Cada persona queire estar en un foto, tenemos fotos con mas de cien personas. Los chicos estan fascinados con la camera de maddie y muchos quitanlo para sacar fotos... ahora tenemos mas de 400 fotos, es loco.
En uno de mis tiempos libre yo fui a la biblioteca para estudiar sola. Pero con Moto y Golem, nada es sola... Los dos sentaban a la misma mesa de yo para una hora. Y para la hora Golem y uno de sus amigos estaban reindo de mis 'stickers' en mi ordenador en uno de mis lados. Y por el otro lado Moto estaba mirandome fijamente. Era muy incomodo porque era, literalmente, menos de un pie de mi cara. Fue muy dificil para concentrar...
Despues de escuela fui a la casa de Silvia con Maddie para pasar tiempo. Nosotras sacamos fotos y empezamos a poner fotos en tuenti ( spanish version of Facebook). Despues fuimos al grancasa para hablar y pasar tiempo con claudia. Comemos una merienda aya y mas tarde sacamos... MAs fotos jajaja.
Hoy me di cuenta de lo mucho que voy a echar de menos espana y los personas de zaragoza... casi lloraba hoy y ni siquiera soy la que está dejando de esta fin de semana. Me encanta este escuela yo voy a echar de menos muchisimo...
pues, besicos para la noche, es la una necesito dormir jaja.
adios, India
p.s. ¿Alguien puede decirme si los besos en las mejillas es aún raro en los EE.UU.? porque creo que estoy camino a utilizar para que se detenga
En uno de mis tiempos libre yo fui a la biblioteca para estudiar sola. Pero con Moto y Golem, nada es sola... Los dos sentaban a la misma mesa de yo para una hora. Y para la hora Golem y uno de sus amigos estaban reindo de mis 'stickers' en mi ordenador en uno de mis lados. Y por el otro lado Moto estaba mirandome fijamente. Era muy incomodo porque era, literalmente, menos de un pie de mi cara. Fue muy dificil para concentrar...
Despues de escuela fui a la casa de Silvia con Maddie para pasar tiempo. Nosotras sacamos fotos y empezamos a poner fotos en tuenti ( spanish version of Facebook). Despues fuimos al grancasa para hablar y pasar tiempo con claudia. Comemos una merienda aya y mas tarde sacamos... MAs fotos jajaja.
Hoy me di cuenta de lo mucho que voy a echar de menos espana y los personas de zaragoza... casi lloraba hoy y ni siquiera soy la que está dejando de esta fin de semana. Me encanta este escuela yo voy a echar de menos muchisimo...
pues, besicos para la noche, es la una necesito dormir jaja.
adios, India
p.s. ¿Alguien puede decirme si los besos en las mejillas es aún raro en los EE.UU.? porque creo que estoy camino a utilizar para que se detenga
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Group Picture
From top left: Claudia, Silvia, Alberto (Garcy), Sergio, Alvaro, Carlos (Charlie), Bea, Marin, Diego, Andrea, Maddie, India, Julia
El Internado and quesadillas
I really quickly wanted to mention the show that we watch every Monday night. It's called El Internado and it is so amazing. If it were in English, it would easily beat out Gossip Girl or Heroes or whatever is popular right now. It is a sort of dramatic/mystery/horror/soap opera show about a boarding school, hence Internado (meaning boarding.) India and I get so excited all weekend and whenever we are together we talk about El Internado! It is hard to understand at times and the plot is really twisted, but we love it none the less. The actors are sub-par and there are lots of dramatic deaths and murders. Yesterday Carol died. Major drama in my house. Laura managed not to cry, but Silvia was sobbing next to me. Carol was one of the main girls who got abducted and murdered in the woods. Bad new bears. But she will probably come back to life next season, it happens a lot. I am going to miss my new favorite show when I get home and I'm hoping it will be online, and maybe even with subtitles so I can get other people addicted too! Or MAYBE we could watch it every monday in Spanish class (any thoughts Sra?) But anyways, it has become a major part of my week when I get to snuggle on the couch with my sisters and learn new Spanish phrases off the tele.
Today, Marimar bought me tortillas and cheese so that I could make them quesadillas! India and I were appalled when we learned that no one has heard of quesadillas, burritos and other Mexican delicacies! So today after school, I prepared simple cheese quesadillas and they were a big hit! Of course they added ham to spruce them up, but other than that, it was a whole new concept for them! It was so much fun to cook in the kitchen with my adorable host mom. She teaches me the words for lots of foods. I can't wait to make more quesadillas tomorrow and maybe I will add some ham or chicken too!
oxoxoxo
Today, Marimar bought me tortillas and cheese so that I could make them quesadillas! India and I were appalled when we learned that no one has heard of quesadillas, burritos and other Mexican delicacies! So today after school, I prepared simple cheese quesadillas and they were a big hit! Of course they added ham to spruce them up, but other than that, it was a whole new concept for them! It was so much fun to cook in the kitchen with my adorable host mom. She teaches me the words for lots of foods. I can't wait to make more quesadillas tomorrow and maybe I will add some ham or chicken too!
oxoxoxo
Monday, January 25, 2010
Barcelona and some other adventures!
Like India said, we had an awesome time shopping on Friday night. I was supposed to go to Barcelona to visit Silvia's dad, but we decided to leave in the morning instead. While India was off on other adventures on Saturday, I was in the car with Laura, my little sister who is currently on crutches with a foot injury, and Silvia who sat up front with her dad. Mariano is my host dad's name and he is so amazing! He is a hysterical and loves to try to talk to me in English even though he commonly confuses kitchen with chicken.
The ride to Barcelona was unbelievably long and although I lost track of time, we got to the city at around 4:00 in the afternoon. He drove us to the top of a huge hill and we walked to the very peak where we got to look over the entire city and at the ocean beyond! It was so pretty and so enormous! After that, we met up with his girlfriend, Loli, and I got situated in my room at their cute apartment.
It became clear that the reason we went to Barcelona was so that I could see the city. For hours later on, we walked around through all of the famous streets and looked at lots of cool buildings and old churches. I love the street performers here in Spain! People make a show and career out of dressing up with props and face paint and standing frozen in the streets. People give money to take pictures and pose with the "statues." Silvia and I were too nervous to go up to any of them to take pictures, but I got one photo of a couple who painted themselves silver and propped a bed up in the middle of the street where they pretended to sleep! It was so cool!
After much sight-seeing and a rest stop at their favorite coffee place, Starbucks, we headed back home and went right to bed. In the morning, Silvia and I woke up a little on the early side to go out into Barcelona again with her friend. He lives in Barcelona so he drove us around to see Sagrada Familia, a famous church, and then we stopped at a little cafe for cokes and to hang out. We went back home again in the afternoon to get ready for our ride home! The drive seemed even longer this time and we got home just in time for kisses from Marimar (host mom) and huevos fritos con aceite de oliva, salchichas y pan. This consists of fried eggs, olive oil, sausages and lots of bread! I thought it was delicious!
Today, I was excited for school and to see India! My first two classes were Language and Social Studies which were very hard to sit through. Then I had English class. Rosa Marie has been out for the past week with a cold, so we had class for the first time in over a week! She made me read paragraphs aloud in Spanish and then translate them on the spot into English. It was really hard and embarrassing when everyone laughed at my pronunciation, but thankfully Rosa Marie does not speak perfect English and she couldn't tell when I was making up my translations!
At recreo time, India and I talked with some friends and taught Laura to sing Tik Tok by Keisha. It was thoroughly entertaining. India and I have decided that besicos are the way to go. We have grown to LOVE greeting people with kisses on the cheeks! Although our first encounters were awkward and we couldn't stop laughing, now we give besicos whenever we get the chance! We are having a hard time remembering how weird it is to give kisses in the states, so I guess we'll have to see when we get back. At least we'll have each other in case everyone else thinks it's strange.
I have been practicing the Spanish poem for school with my family. They help me with my pronunciation so that I sound like a true Spaniard by lisping all of the words with S in them. Laura likes to laugh hysterically every time I say the author of the poem, Juana de Ibarbourou, which makes me really embarrassed, but it's so fun to get Spanish lessons!
Today at school we had two hours of library time in the afternoon today, and we listened to Chemistry podcasts and tried to ignore EVERY SINGLE freshmen who insisted on staring. We can't figure it out, but for some reason, no one cares if they get caught staring... they don't even look away! We had two girls pointing and whispering about us. Two boys talking audibly about how we were probably just listening to music and not doing any work with our headphones in, and another boy in the back of the room was staring and blowing kisses. I wonder what India will do when she is alone in the library for her last week!
We went to the gym today and saw Colorado kid. We met him the first day at the gym when he came up to us because we spoke English. We talked really awkwardly while Silvia hummed and laughed to make things worse. Turns out... his name is Nicholas and he wants to hang out this weekend at a disco or a park in town. Good thing we had an excuse... but a sad one! I'm getting ready to leave for Connecticut this weekend! How depressing!
I told Silvia that I am going to miss her so so much and she invited me to live with her.... I'm glad I have options. But at dinner tonight where we had emenadillas with salchichas, peaches and licorice rice (don't ask me), we talked about how sad we're all going to be!
I am having so much fun but I can't wait to see all my American friends and family!
besicos besicos and more besicos
The ride to Barcelona was unbelievably long and although I lost track of time, we got to the city at around 4:00 in the afternoon. He drove us to the top of a huge hill and we walked to the very peak where we got to look over the entire city and at the ocean beyond! It was so pretty and so enormous! After that, we met up with his girlfriend, Loli, and I got situated in my room at their cute apartment.
It became clear that the reason we went to Barcelona was so that I could see the city. For hours later on, we walked around through all of the famous streets and looked at lots of cool buildings and old churches. I love the street performers here in Spain! People make a show and career out of dressing up with props and face paint and standing frozen in the streets. People give money to take pictures and pose with the "statues." Silvia and I were too nervous to go up to any of them to take pictures, but I got one photo of a couple who painted themselves silver and propped a bed up in the middle of the street where they pretended to sleep! It was so cool!
After much sight-seeing and a rest stop at their favorite coffee place, Starbucks, we headed back home and went right to bed. In the morning, Silvia and I woke up a little on the early side to go out into Barcelona again with her friend. He lives in Barcelona so he drove us around to see Sagrada Familia, a famous church, and then we stopped at a little cafe for cokes and to hang out. We went back home again in the afternoon to get ready for our ride home! The drive seemed even longer this time and we got home just in time for kisses from Marimar (host mom) and huevos fritos con aceite de oliva, salchichas y pan. This consists of fried eggs, olive oil, sausages and lots of bread! I thought it was delicious!
Today, I was excited for school and to see India! My first two classes were Language and Social Studies which were very hard to sit through. Then I had English class. Rosa Marie has been out for the past week with a cold, so we had class for the first time in over a week! She made me read paragraphs aloud in Spanish and then translate them on the spot into English. It was really hard and embarrassing when everyone laughed at my pronunciation, but thankfully Rosa Marie does not speak perfect English and she couldn't tell when I was making up my translations!
At recreo time, India and I talked with some friends and taught Laura to sing Tik Tok by Keisha. It was thoroughly entertaining. India and I have decided that besicos are the way to go. We have grown to LOVE greeting people with kisses on the cheeks! Although our first encounters were awkward and we couldn't stop laughing, now we give besicos whenever we get the chance! We are having a hard time remembering how weird it is to give kisses in the states, so I guess we'll have to see when we get back. At least we'll have each other in case everyone else thinks it's strange.
I have been practicing the Spanish poem for school with my family. They help me with my pronunciation so that I sound like a true Spaniard by lisping all of the words with S in them. Laura likes to laugh hysterically every time I say the author of the poem, Juana de Ibarbourou, which makes me really embarrassed, but it's so fun to get Spanish lessons!
Today at school we had two hours of library time in the afternoon today, and we listened to Chemistry podcasts and tried to ignore EVERY SINGLE freshmen who insisted on staring. We can't figure it out, but for some reason, no one cares if they get caught staring... they don't even look away! We had two girls pointing and whispering about us. Two boys talking audibly about how we were probably just listening to music and not doing any work with our headphones in, and another boy in the back of the room was staring and blowing kisses. I wonder what India will do when she is alone in the library for her last week!
We went to the gym today and saw Colorado kid. We met him the first day at the gym when he came up to us because we spoke English. We talked really awkwardly while Silvia hummed and laughed to make things worse. Turns out... his name is Nicholas and he wants to hang out this weekend at a disco or a park in town. Good thing we had an excuse... but a sad one! I'm getting ready to leave for Connecticut this weekend! How depressing!
I told Silvia that I am going to miss her so so much and she invited me to live with her.... I'm glad I have options. But at dinner tonight where we had emenadillas with salchichas, peaches and licorice rice (don't ask me), we talked about how sad we're all going to be!
I am having so much fun but I can't wait to see all my American friends and family!
besicos besicos and more besicos
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