nothin´ new really
This weekend I went to Llanes again with my host parents. We left saturday morning, and then saturday evening went to Pepe´s brothers 54th birthday. His brother is develop mentally disabled...or whatever you call it in PC terms. His home pueblo is in Cantabria, a different region of Spain, but it´s on the coast about 20-25 east of Llanes.
3 of his brothers were there and his sister, and a couple of other family friends and I had a great time. They were all warm and friendly and the birthday boy, Luis, was so excited that I was there. His speech is a little off so I could rarely understand anything at all he was saying to me, but it didn´t matter cuz I could just laugh and nod and that seemed sufficient for him.
People asked me questions and I actually got to speak some spanish, and they seemed impressed. We had dinner, consisting of 6 different kinds of thinly sliced meat (salchichon, chorizo, jamon, ....can´t remember the rest, but they were good) with bread and duck pate which i didn´t really like. And for desert (one s or two?) we had this tarta that juana and I made earlier that day. It was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. you should all be jealous. It´s a secret family recipe but I´m going to try and convince her to share it with me :) either that or help make it again and just memorize the recipe. It´s almost like a pie, but with cookie crumb crust and filled with peaches and a cream. I´ll have to make it when i get home.
Then Luis opened his presents and went crazy. i thought he was going to pass out. I´ve never seen anyone so pleased and excited to get a red backpack. No joke. a red Mr. Incredible mochila and he was screaming and jumping and running around. They finally had to take it away so he´d calm down and open the rest. Juana gave him a new button up shirt with a matching t-shirt and this little wooden box to put his drawing supplies cuz he likes to draw. We put stickers of motorcycles all over it and put candy bars inside. But when he went to open it, juana was like ¨oh, that´s from pamela. she got that for you!!¨and then she winked at me. but it make me feel bad cuz i certainly didn´t. he was exstatic and ran over and kissed my cheeks a hundred times. Everyone was happy but I was bright red.
He opened the rest of his gifts in a similar fashion, but nothing was as exciting as that backpack. how cool is that.
Sunday juana and i went on a 10K hike over the hills by the ocean. it was so beautiful. my pictures didnt turn out so great, but believe me, it was gorgeous.
that´s all for now, gotta meet with my conversation partner!
3 of his brothers were there and his sister, and a couple of other family friends and I had a great time. They were all warm and friendly and the birthday boy, Luis, was so excited that I was there. His speech is a little off so I could rarely understand anything at all he was saying to me, but it didn´t matter cuz I could just laugh and nod and that seemed sufficient for him.
People asked me questions and I actually got to speak some spanish, and they seemed impressed. We had dinner, consisting of 6 different kinds of thinly sliced meat (salchichon, chorizo, jamon, ....can´t remember the rest, but they were good) with bread and duck pate which i didn´t really like. And for desert (one s or two?) we had this tarta that juana and I made earlier that day. It was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. you should all be jealous. It´s a secret family recipe but I´m going to try and convince her to share it with me :) either that or help make it again and just memorize the recipe. It´s almost like a pie, but with cookie crumb crust and filled with peaches and a cream. I´ll have to make it when i get home.
Then Luis opened his presents and went crazy. i thought he was going to pass out. I´ve never seen anyone so pleased and excited to get a red backpack. No joke. a red Mr. Incredible mochila and he was screaming and jumping and running around. They finally had to take it away so he´d calm down and open the rest. Juana gave him a new button up shirt with a matching t-shirt and this little wooden box to put his drawing supplies cuz he likes to draw. We put stickers of motorcycles all over it and put candy bars inside. But when he went to open it, juana was like ¨oh, that´s from pamela. she got that for you!!¨and then she winked at me. but it make me feel bad cuz i certainly didn´t. he was exstatic and ran over and kissed my cheeks a hundred times. Everyone was happy but I was bright red.
He opened the rest of his gifts in a similar fashion, but nothing was as exciting as that backpack. how cool is that.
Sunday juana and i went on a 10K hike over the hills by the ocean. it was so beautiful. my pictures didnt turn out so great, but believe me, it was gorgeous.
that´s all for now, gotta meet with my conversation partner!