Virginia made an awesome breakfast (photo and description below) and then I left for a field trip to the Italian Ruins. It was super neat! First, we went to a museum where there were recreations of what the palaces used to look like and then we went to the actual site of where they were located. The arena was my favorite thing to wander around but the ruins of the palace were really interesting as well. Something cool that I learned today was that the days of the week (in Spanish) were named after different gods and goddesses. The palaces were huge and I learned a lot more about the ruins but I don't want to bore you too much with a bunch of nerdy facts!
I arrived back home in time for lunch with Virginia and Francisco. Virginia killed it again with an awesome lunch, photos below! I took a nice sunday siesta and then went to a cafe to work on my essay!
I love chai tea lattes and I found a great place to get them today! The chai was amazing and they serve all drinks with a piece of chocolate! This place already has my loyalty. For my essay I had to interview random people about E-commerce so I talked to a student at the cafe and then started writing my paper!
I had a wonderful dinner with Virginia and now we are watching a TV show! Their TV shows here are a lot longer than they are in the states, this one lasts around 90 minutes!!
Sending Smiles from Sevilla,
Rebecca
I promised some quotes in this whole blog thing but I haven't quite kept up with that. My friend Becca sent me a list of quotes from this Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and I really liked this one!
“Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures… Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks—the traffic signal that said “Walk” the second you got there—and downticks—the itchy tag at the back of your collar—that happened to every person in the course of a day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.”
The Arena/ stadium!
Some columns in the ruins!
Breakfast: Pan frita and cola cao for breakfast with Virginia and Francisco!
Lunch: My first paella (rice with peppers, onions and chicken). I didn't really like the chicken part but the rice was delicious! The peppers were also great!
Dinner: Spaghetti with olive oil and garlic, mini pizzas with ham (I actually kind of liked the ham..but there was only a little bit on it!) and a beautiful fruit salad for dessert!
So you talk a lot about food but what are the eating customs there? Do you have to eat as a family? Do you have to clean your plate or leave food on your plate? Do you have to get seconds? Or another custom.that I've never heard of? Also do you say grace?
ReplyDeleteI've usually been eating a quick breakfast by myself in the morning! Lunch is the biggest meal of the day, but since I have class from 12:30-3:30 I just take a PB&J to go! I've been having dinner with Virginia every night. Some nights her kids will come over and on the weekend her husband is there. She bring out a few dishes of food and lets me serve myself, so I take a little bit at a time because I don't want to waste any food! I have have seconds, thirds, fourths if I wanted too, she gives me soooo much food! I can never finish it all! They do not do grace in this family! The only other custom I can think of is always having fruit for dessert! and they don't eat salad first!
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