This is me beneath the sign of the Restaurant where I eat breakfast every morning! it's called Palacios, and that's where i eat my delicious ham and egg sandwich y cafe con leche y judo de naranja (orange juice).
and yes I am double bagging it up. One is my school bag and one is my purse. You should know that this is totally the trend in Spain and everyone does it. It really cool to look like you're going on some sort of Indiana Jones adventure and you need all this supplies that can't be contained in one bag. you should also know that all of the above is false. I have an attachment to being prepared and carrying everything I own with me :).
So today was our last Spanish class :( WOMP!!! ahh and my teacher was wearing like the cutest scarf ever and i asked her if she got it in toledo and she did, but could she tell me where?! of course not. so i scoured the city for it for the rest of the day during free time and no dice. haha, darn that language barrier! But on our last day instead of learning more vocabulary we listened to music!! YAY this is like what I have wanted all along to listen to spanish music. It was pretty good, we listened to traditional music, pop music and then rap. yeah and this rap was like a million miles per hour because i'm pretty sure you can go even faster in spanish than you can in english. and the song had three verses: the first verse had only words with the vowel a in them, the second only had the vowel e, and the third only the vowel o. so its sounded like super freaking cool. it was like this intense song/tongue twister all in one. then when it was over, she goes: okay now you sing it. OUR SPANISH TEACHER COULDN'T EVEN SING IT AS FAST AS THIS DUDE AND NOW SHE WANTS US TO DO IT. yeahh, good one teach, we all had a good giggle about that :)
A fun tidbit that you should know is that before I came to spain I had a fun little phrase i liked to whip out once in a while: "es un misterio", which i would use for its a mystery. You may have heard this before; well i said it to the lovely michelle mumme and all she did was laugh. Yeah like this phrase wasn't real spanish or something, what a spanish elitist! yeah well you should know my dear that this [hrase was actually in one of the pop songs we listened to!! :) i underlined it and felt really happy for knowing a real spanish phrase! hehehehhehe
Okay so I think I am one of the people that trieds the hardest in learning Spanish because I genuinely think this language is interesting and I want to master as much of it as I can while I'm here. So I try super hard to incrperate it into my speech and to speak to the locals and vendors and such using spanish. Well today at lunch I had an epic fail that was just really sad. This is what I ate btw:
and it was delicious. Back to the story. So steven and eli got to the restaurant early and then brynnan adam and I joined them. So the three of us sit down and the waiter comes over to take our drink orders and its goes bryannan--agua...adam--agua....emily (i wanted water too) and what comes out of my mouth...."y tu". yeah that means and you. what an idiot, the guy just looks at me like what? who is this chick? I asked her what she wanted to drink and she says "y tu". immediatly I just go aaslfiguas,fjbgmdfh lafgdgh;fdihkg AGUA. and he smiles and i am like super red and the entire table is laughing at my horrible failure. audsfyghoaidluat mrack. not cool :( i was so discouraged because I tried so hard and there was no success. To make things even worse, when we were leaving he goes adios (as brynnan walks by)....adios (adam is walking by)...and then I walk by...."bye". bahahhahahhaha, yeah I have been deemed so remedial that I can't even understand bye in spanish haha.
It was all good, I had a good heart about it. Plus after that we did something cool and Spanish!
So like I said earlier there are convents around this place like there's dollar stores in our neighborhood, they are EVERYWHERE! so these precious little nuns make MAZAPAN! which i don't know what it is but it is this super dense bread-ish stuff that is incredibly sweet, so right up my alley!! So I went to this Convent by our dorm:
to get some mazapan (just wikipedia it, idk what this stuff is). And then what you do is there is amenu next to the window and you ring the "doorbell" next to the window and the nun unlocks the window, then you open it and she's like what do you want (all of which is occurring in spanish so consider it an extreme success that-with the help of brynnan fink-i acquired this marapan) and then you say ____ and she tells you the price and you put your payment on this wheel she spins the wheel, takes the payment and spins your mazapan right back out to you! ITS TOTALLY ROCKS aslkegyhaskjbg :) weeeee. muy divertida!
So finklestein did this during our lunch break. This next picture is my brynnan and adam ready for class, just thought you would like a tidbit on the actual learning hehehhe. go team aggies!
i would like to take this time for random thoughts of the day:
1. kyndall-pedicures when we get back, i could pass for a tour guide or something
2. i miss random things that i never even use but now that i don't have them i feel ike i need them aka lotion
3. the soap smells like bubble gum :) so i love washing my hands
Okay so this afternoon was our last afternoon in Toledo so we had free time to roam the city and do whatever we wanted. Well since everyone in my little group is like "ahh i don't care what we do", i got to semi-decide our course and of course i chose shopping! hehehhehe. however first we did check out this swords-maker because there are swords in every shop in this town like there is vera bradley in every boutique in Indiana. :)
This place was hard to find so that is brynnan expertly asking for directions!! GO FINK!
SUCCESS:
That guy is making a sword holder thing (seriously wikipedia this stuff if you actually care about my nomenclature) . He is not Inigo Montoya's father; we did not kill him; therefore we are still alive.
Then I got some Gelato!!!!!!!!!!! AHHH adlihbalfibhdflihgte it was so freaking delicious; i got a mixture of a flavor called cookies and chocolate; and this scooper guy OMGSH knew how to scoop (No el trabaja SBISA). i am aware that gelato is italian but i have already had helado (ice cream) and i was just going for the whole european experience here people. all the flavors were in italian if that legitimizes all this for you:
and don't worry, even though i'm in europe i am no more sophisticated (as this photo entails...) i dripped ice cream on this shirt. its white, and i'm me.
Look how fun we are! :)
As I have mentioned many a time, everyone in europe is fabulous so i went to check out their clothes stores :). SO I have this beautiful friend Tara in college station. SHE is fabulous and beautiful and I love her and she totally pulls of this fedora. Kyndall and I talked about it and we decided that in europe I can try anything that works on me cause i'm in europe what are people going to do. Well i wanted to be cool like tara (because she is like one of the coolest people EVER) and so i tried on a fedora. To be fair the first time i tried it on without a mirror and stephen and brynnan both frowned. spririts dampened but i am not despairing (my thoughts: okay these two don't even know anything ehhehhehehehehhe). Well guys, i am sorry to say i tried again by myself and with a mirror. only.sad.reports. :( fedoras look terrible on me, and i am so bummed. maybe i will have better luck with other cool trends :/
oh yeah, remember how i mentioned that i decided europeans are shorter:
sorry brother. i don't think you can fit in the houses. :)
I still love it here though and I'm having a super fun time!!
Tomorrow we don't have class, we are going to a construction site and then to MADRID!!!!!!!!!!
YAYAYYAYAYAY!
Love,
Emily
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