Random Observations and Whatnots

This county ceases to amaze me in the way that eggs and milk don’t need to be refrigerated in the store and yogurt apparently doesn’t expire for a whole year. Everything closes down every day from 2-5ish, with the exception of random restaurants. The streets are dead during those hours and during Saturday and Sunday afternoons. On the weekends at night mostly, people appear from nowhere, people I’ve never seen before- mostly college kids home for most weekends. I still haven’t figured out the ringing of the church bells in this town because they seem to ring whenever they want. Rarely on the hour and sometimes with only a five minute break in between episodes. I love that after normal Spanish dining times the streets are usually occupied with people out for a stroll. I love how the one old man stopped me to give me a piece of hard candy when I walked by on my first week here, I want to find him again. I love how this is a small town where everyone knows everyone else, usually by name too, and if they don’t, they have a friend who knows them and they can report back to you in 5 minutes what that person is like. I’m anxious to be one of those people that everyone knows in town, and not just knows me as the American girl in town, cuz I’m pretty sure I’ve already accomplished that, but knows me in the way that if someone asked about me they could report back something about me and my life. I love that I can buy some of the best bread in baguette form and only have to pay like 45 cents. I love that I can watch El Hormiguero and Doctor Mateo without having to upload it onto my computer. Even more I love that I can watch every Real Madrid game on a big screen TV surrounded by lots of people who care in a bar owned by a man who is also a Madrid fan and insists on ringing a bell every time the team scores.

Life here is so good. I am pleased. Estoy super contenta :)

oh, and the only Protestant church in this town is Romanian. So not in either of the languages I speak. Looks like I have to find myself a Romanian translator who can teach me the language too haha :)