Hielo

1/21/09

Yesterday, Chessie and I stopped in a little bar on the way back from picking up our books, because we noticed that it had a big TV. We asked the bartender if they would be playing the inauguration and he said that they could. So after our class, we walked over with a few friends to watch and they turned it all the way up for us and put it on an English station. How nice.

Yesterday we had picked up a few groceries so that we could start bringing our lunches and we picked up a little combination platter of cheeses so we could find which one we liked the best. (spoiler: we later discover that we are easy to please as far as cheeses go and we liked all of them). So today, Chessie and I came home, grabbed the cheese and bought a baguette at a store a couple doors down from our apartment and went off to try and find a park we kept seeing on the map but could never locate. We twisted up all these roads and steep staircases and finally ended up with this gorgeous view over Barcelona and the Mediterranean. We had our baguette and cheeses (so Euro). Then we walked around the different paths. It is a beautiful day today, cloudless sky, sunny and cool weather.

            Interesting tid bits:

            The other day I got a glass for water and put some ice in it (they like their drinks warm here so the pitcher is always just on the table at room temperature.) And I could kind of see Antonia trying to look at what I was doing, but she was on the phone and didn’t say anything to me. Then Chessie sees my ice and thinks, ‘what a good idea!’ (up until this point we all just drank room temperature water). So she goes and gets a glass and puts ice in it and Antonia puts down the phone and starts loudly saying (all in Spanish of course) “No ice! Chessie, no ice! You’re going to get sick! In the summer, yes you can have ice. But in the winter?! No ice! It’s too cold! You’re all going to get sick!” So, in case you weren’t aware of this hard fact: Do not put ice in your drink in the winter. You WILL get sick. Another little known fact: If you walk in an apartment without slippers on you will ALSO get sick.