Family Dinner

Hi everyone! So this is officially the first post on my blog...how exciting. I've been meaning to do this for awhile so that everyone can see pictures, but haven't gotten around to it, despite the fact I've been here exactly a month. Time flies when you're having fun.

We just had a "family dinner" tonight...the girls from Mizzou plus a girl from UNC all host dinner one night a week. Tonight was "southern food"--and it was pretty great...fried chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, bread, salad, and a Spanish twist with these huge delicious flaky cookies in the shape of a heart. My week is next week...I believe I'll be making fajitas. Mexican food is a rarity here--thankfully the last girl who lived in my piso was Mexican, and left behind a wealth of 20+ packages of refried beans and some hot sauce. My Spanish roommates aren't big fans of Mexican food, so I was left the inheritance. The rest I can get at El Cortes Ingles, which is a huge store similar to Macy's, but with a grocery store attached that features a lot of international food. Perfect. They also sell peanut butter there which will be helpful in the future...

I'm posting some pictures from the places we've gone in the last few weeks, mainly San Sebastian, Bilbao and the Guggenheim. While I'm definitely glad I went to the Guggenheim, the exhibition there right now is pretty weird. It's mostly anime of some questionable themes.

Next on the horizon...we are going to Las Fallas, which is a huge festival in Valencia that leads up to St. Joseph's day (which we happen to have off school!) The city creates these huge paper sculpture things and then sets them on fire. A girl who lived in Pamplona last year said it was the coolest festival she's ever been to, so I'm very excited. Then we will spend the weekend in Madrid exploring. After that, it's off to London to visit an ADPi friend, and two other ADPi's from Brussels will also be joining us.