Miercoles, 28 de Enero

Yesterday in intensivo, we learned about restaurant vocabulary and several common dishes offered. It was fun, we all set up pretend restaurant tables and ordered off a menu in our workbook, with Javi as our camarero (waiter). Even though I’ve been catching up on sleep and getting enough, I’ve been so tired recently. I was checked out and mentally finished within the first 30 min of intensivo yesterday so it was a bit painful.
Afterwards, I got to skype with mom!
Siesta lunch was arroz cubano: fried egg, rice, and tomato sauce. As gross as this sounds, it was actually pretty good. We also had fried pork, bread, and fruit. Allison and I have started resisting Ascension’s insistent food offerings. We have even started giving her a taste of her own medicine. She pushes the plate of meat towards us saying “come, come, come” (eat, eat, eat), and we push it right back saying, “no, para usted, coma coma coma” (no, for you, eat, eat, eat). Isabel (her daughter) thinks this is hilarious, but I think it throws Ascencion off a bit. She hasn’t been feeling very good lately, so has been using that as an excuse of why we should eat and not her. We just can’t win.After lunch, I took a 2-hour siesta nap. I think I’m starting to get sick. My throat hurts and I’m feeling really draggy. When I woke up, Allison and I went to the JMU office. The Mac problem is still unresolved…very annoying.
On our way home with Colleen and Alex, we each bought a bottle of wine (only a little more than a euro each) to have for the evening. Dinner was Spanish tortilla, salad, and weird white sausage (no bread!?!?!?) After dinner, I did one of Allison’s cardio sculpt workout DVDs in our bathroom (it’s more spacious than our room haha).
Many people had plans to stay out all night and then go for churros and chocolate around 6:30 or 7 (it’s the Spanish way), but most ended up going home around 2 or 3. Typical. Allison and I headed back around 2:30 and had “randi” of course. Randi is the nutella we found last week in the kitchen pantry with the name “Randi” written on it. Clearly, this name has not stopped us from indulging in it often. Just saying Randi sends us into giggle fits.
No intensivo today wooo! It’s some saint’s holiday, I forget who, they have so many holidays here it’s fabulous. The Spanish even have a phrase “hacer un puente” which literally means to make a bridge. For example, if there’s a holiday on Tuesday, they will “hacer un puente” from Sunday to Tuesday and take Monday off too. The same goes for a Thursday holiday. Ahh these people know what’s up. I woke up about an hour and a half ago and my throat hurts so bad! I need to do my radio program parts and start studying for our intensivo exam Friday…yuck. Ally, Andrea, Hannah, and I are meeting at the JMU office at 4 to work on it. Well, that’s all for now…I need some advil and café con leche.