Day 3

So, it´s day 3! It´s a little difficult to type on these keyboards because there are additional punctuation marks so all of the punctuation is in different places. So excuse my typing like a 1st grader.

To explain a little more of the culture, they eat breakfast anywhere from 8am to 11am and it´s usually fruit or bread with olive oil, tomato, ham and cheese. Schools let out at 2 and all leave work at 2 or 3 and eat lunch. Lunch is the biggest meal of the day. Yesterday we had fried fish, spinach tortilla (which was a spinach omelet, just egg and spinach), bread, french fries (yes, i know, odd combo), cherry tomatoes (which i did try, but still don´t like...not even in spain), homemade mayonnaise which you eat with the fish and tortilla, and diet coke to drink. I love the diet coke, or Coke Light as it is called here.

Everyone takes a ´siesta´ (there are no double quotation marks here) from around 3:00ish to 5 or 6. Some go back to work, but not all. All the shops and everything close during this time. It´s wonderful!

Last night I went with my host dad, Blas, to buy some bread at the grocery store, el mercado, and we walked around part of the town. We went into a smoke-filled bar, because everyone smokes here...no me gusta (i don´t like it), and had diet coke and tapas. Tapas are complimentary snacks at bars in small towns. They are the same in larger towns like Madrid, but you have to pay for them. It was a small plate of peanuts, and ham and cheese on small toasts. Like what we commonly eat with bruschetta at parties. The ham is good here. It´s very thin and I think cured. They eat it a lot! Ham and fish are huge foods!

Well people are waiting for this computer so i´m going to go. much love!