No autumn colors here yet. but it was a beautiful sunny day today. manolita and i took the bus out towards el sardinero (the beach sort of) and we took lots of pictures of the ocean, the boats and el faro (the lighthouse). José didn´t come with us though. I guess he´s really sick. he usually stays in bed, but this morning we all walked to the store. manolita was telling me that josé is starting to get alzheimer´s. they both have diabetes too. last night on our walk, we usually always go for walks with Nuni (the dog) , and she was telling me that José used to be a heavy smoker...like a chainsmoker i guess. I´m glad they don´t smoke anymore. i was afraid i would have to live with a family that smokes but i got lucky.
Tomorrow we´re going to go to Suesa? i think it is. the little family house their family owns in the pueblo. It´s really cool. they have a bunch o f fig trees and last time we went we picked a bunch of higos (figs). I was trying to teach manolita how to say "figs" but she pronounces the word more like "fix". I guess it´s really common for families to have a little house outside of town that the extended family shares and passes down through generations so that they can have get-togethers on weekends.
I had little coffee this morning, but i think i want to go buy some. i also need to buy some more toothpaste. Thursday i went to a chinese store in santander, they call it the bazaar, and it´s a lot like the store "Big Lots". I bought a few cheap books in spanish to read. i´ve been looking for books, but they´re expensive in the little book stores. however i did find La Naranja Mecánico (A Clockwork Orange) in spanish and i want to buy it ( i couldn´t buy it at the time because it was 9€ ¡muy caro! that´s spanish for expensive,) but now that i have some money i think i´m going to go and buy it.
The books that i did buy at the chinese big lots are called "Las Babosas" (the slugs - it´s a silly horror novel about slugs that eat people) and "La Venganza del Tiburon" (the revenge of the shark - and it has a picture of a big, scary great white shark on the front). My grammar teacher told us that if we want to speak spanish we first need to be able to read it so i´m trying to find all the cheap spanish books i can.
3 comments:
Great post Gabe! Sound wonderful about the little house in Suesa......Maybe you and Manolita can make a fig tart :o)
Don't let "Las Babosas" give you nightmares!!
I love you..........so-o-o-o much!
Gabe, it is great to hear your adventures. i am glad you are spending a lot of time with your host parents. remember the to exchange students we hosted who were "bad apples". have a fun weekend, i love you.
Sounds fun,
There are plenty of fall colors in Oregon. It's gorgeous here. I did an interview on immunization for the Ashland Daily Tidings the other day, and I'm currently reading Crazy For God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, and Learned to Take all (Or Almost all) of it Back. By Frank Schaeffer. So far its really good.
Hope you're having fun, and try not the think of Pollo and Wilbert.
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