Interesting Facts About Spain.

Interesting Facts About Spain.
ok perhaps not facts because i am making them up, but you know what i mean.


1. I understand now why they say Spaniards are always late. It's because everywhere you go, you have to catch a bus, which makes it almost impossible to meet each other at the same time. Also, it takes a lot of planning beforehand.

2. The idea of a missed call. So great. Americans, we need to implement this. The general idea being, since cell phones are expensive and you aren't charged for calls that people don't answer, to call and hang up when you are leaving to meet someone, or you've arrived somewhere. That way, the person can just look and see a missed call from you, and basically its just like a text message saying, "I'm here!" The only complication is not knowing if the person wants to really talk to you or its just a missed call, haha.

3. Some cool words to add to your vocabulary: guay, which means cool or awesome, vale, which is pronounced 'bale' which is the same as 'okay' and basically means anything you want it to, emocionada which means 'excited'. Take note that excitado does NOT mean excited, it actually means desiring of sex. SOO, don't get those two mixed up, yeah?

4. Did you know? Spaniards always wear shoes in the house. I hate wearing shoes so I always forget this, so my senora is like, "Donde estas tu zapatos! Pontelo!". Blargh.

5. The adventures of showering in Europe. You know, I think that this almost deserves its own post, but let's just say showering is always a challenge in Europe. They don't believe in shower-heads or tubs or doors or any sort of device to ensure water doesn't get EVERYWHERE. I don't know how they do it. I thought to myself, Okay, maybe this is just a sloppy American thing. No. I have tried and I still manage to get water EVERYWHERE. Also, the Orientation people scared all of us into taking the shortest showers ever -- they said that everyone here showers under 8 minutes, which is super intense, so all of the students always compare stories about trying to shower (I like the one where this one guy dropped the shower head and it was spraying all over the place and he knocked over everything in the bathroom trying to catch it.) and how everyone is speed-showering because we're too terrified to waste any water. Or how nobody wants to ask to take two showers in a day, like if we go to the beach or something. Its pretty hilarious, actually, how terrified we all are about this shower thing.

6. Just the general state of confusion. Since I don't understand a good half of what is said to me, I sortof just smile and nod. "Si" y "Vale" have become my two favorite words. Seriously, I am silent almost all of the time. My voice is going to wither away from lack of use. I just stand in the kitchen because I want to hang out with my family but I can't really talk to them, so I'm just the awkward large shadow that hangs out and laughs at things but never speaks. Or, when I do speak, it usually translates to something like, "To want. Table. Outside. Butterfly." which, obviously, clearly communicates what I need.

7. Continuing with the theme of confusion, I tried to buy some deep-conditioner because my hair was really dry. I was SO excited for this -- I had forgotten to bring it to the shower for like 2 days so I was so pumped about making my hair nice. OKAY. Too bad I CANNOT READ SPANISH LABELS and it is NOT conditioner. LOL. I put it in my hair and then I was realizing -- this does not feel right. It's like a pomade gel thing! Oy vey. Wellll.. live and learn, right?

Oy vey. I am having lots and lots of fun and lots and lots of hilarious experiences.

Those crazy Americans...

Last night we went to a concert on the beach. So beautiful!
Lauren, me and Sarah, with Randy the matador hiding in the background!

Talk to you later!
Kandace