ham cheetos...mmm

pic caption: me & hill at yupi w/yupi. he's so guai.

So I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. I've been slacking but seriously blogging is one of my favorite hobbies so I won't forget about you.

So on Sunday we went to see "Los Simpson, la pelicula" and it was pretty amazing. However, I was sad homer didn't say jaja instead of haha. Movie theatres are so much cooler here. It was like 5 euro (which is like $6.50) to get a ticket on the wknd, (usually its like 3.50) then you walk in and they have a candy shop INSIDE the concession area. you can buy candy by the pound or just like chocolate bars. Choice of drinks: fanta, water, coke, BEER. yes, I said it. Spain even lets you drink in the movies. I know you're thinking this is the last straw, you just need to get on a plane and get over here. So I sit at my sit and I'm like so confused. Is this a new theatre? Theres no litter on the ground...no old man/taxi cab smell...no sensation of body lice as you sit on the seat. It was so freaking clean. I was amazed. So I've decided I'm pretty much hanging out there everyday. Hey it was cool in 7th grade right?

I've been talking to other people in summer school and they're like "YEAH god doesn't it suck to be in school, classes are hard.. I can't concentrate bleh blah bleh" and I'm like well today Macarena told us which discotecas to go to and what beer to drink, and then in Culture class we learned some common foul language. It's pretty hilarious. I also love their teaching methods. Macarena acts out EVERYTHING. Someone is sad, then she starts fake crying. someone runs their bike into a tree, well she jumps on that invisible bike. She says there is some day in Cadiz where everyone is supposed to dress in caracter (like superman ,spiderman etc), its called Dia de los Freakys haha. So she immitated this spiderman kid she saw by jumping around the room pretending webs came out of her hands. We asked Macarena if she would take us out one night and she was like "ah si si claro que si" but apparently she's booked til like the 10th, after that its fine. hopefully she can lapiz us in.

So yesterday we went on our weekly excursion. We went to the beach city of Tarifa which is the southernmost part of western europe, about 7 miles from the coast of africa. When we went there was this thing they call EL VIENTO (the wind) which is african winds that are super strong and basically pellet you with sand so hard you think your skin is going to fall off. So that means we can't go to the beach, AS PLANNED,and will spend most of the day on really really exciting walking tours with a man named Alfonso that has this interesting accent that not even Spaniards can understand. Then we took the bus over to Bolonia (pronounced like Italy's Bologna but not). There they have these ancient greek ruins of the city Baelo Claudia. I put pics on flickr which have some discriptions. I found it on wikipedia because at that point in the day I had no idea what Alfonso was saying anymore.

So on our way back we start to slow down and I look out and see traffic. And I'm like ah god but I'm from Southern California so like 10 cars at a stop isn't earth shattering to me. Apparently some semi got its freight disconnected from its bed and it hit a car. I don't know. But as we were sitting there for about 25 minutes or so I notice something really interesting. All the spaniards get out of their cars. (Well either that or pull u-turns that somehow do not clip your car.) They walk over very angrily, wearing their linen capri's and flip flips, and look over at the accident with this face of "I hope you know you are making my life very difficult" then walk back to their cars, walking AROUND their car (not getting in) as if loitering is really going to intimidate people, and then they get on their phones and start ranting. I was like "CAN I GO OUT AND LOOK?" I just wanna fit in.

We get back and decide to go straight to la playa which means a stop at Yupi, pur fav general store to stock up on some water, chips and juice. I decide to pick up a bag of cheetos and as I pop one into my mouth I'm thinking "this is not cheese...". Nay, very true to their roots these cheetos were ham flavored. Honestly, Spain only has 3 flavors for all chips; olive oil, bbq and ham. It will say different things all over the bags; cheese, tomato basil, plain...but no, it always tastes like 1 of those 3. I still ate them tho, ham flavor isn't all that bad.

Well I'm gonna take a siesta and then go eat at our fav tapas restaurant. It's like euro-asian fusion and its SO GOOD. it's like the only place I've seen in spain that cares about presentation, the food actually looks good when it comes to you versus the usual that looks disgusting but if you keep eating it enough you start to like it.

Besitos y abrazos!