the next day!!

guess what?! i am writting the next day!!!

so i think maria rosa wants to make me and jacquelin fat!  she always puts sooo much food on our plates (think the amount that eric eats!) and i feel bad not eating it all because whatever we dont finish, they just throw away!  and even after we finish what is on our plates they offer us even more food and we have to repeat "¡estoy llena! ¡estoy llena!" (im full! im full!)  maria rosa is such a mother, so much like the jewish mothers i know (cough cough!)

oo and lunch today was interesting.  their son nacho (erics spanish name!) was supposed to come and visit this week (he had doctors appts) but got snowed in in London.  apparently they got a meter of snow and none of the public transportation was running!  but maria had started to prepare his favorite dish yesterday (what a good mother!) before we found out he was snowed in.  so today for lunch we at his favorite food.  it was a garbanzo bean soup with onions, chicken and some other stuff in it.  that was great.  but in the middle of the table was a huge plate of what looked like meat.  so after i finished my soup maria rosa takes a piece of what looked like chicken (but it was probably pork), and started to shread it up on my plate.  then she added a few pieces of chorizo that started to crumble.  to top it off she blobbed on something that was maybe gelitin, or a hunk of fat, or an egg...we couldnt figure it out lol.   she told me to cut it and mix it all up and enjoy.  so i did, and it wasnt bad until i ate a blob of the gelly thing that i didnt mix in properly.  the second it entered my mouth my nostrils flared (mom you know what that means!) and it was all i could do to swallow it and follow it by a piece of bread.  needless to say, my stomach had the mcgurgles all afternoon!

so after lunch i went to class and my teacher had someone come in and talk about the bull fights (corrida de torros).  and we learned that there are 3 matadators and 3 parts to the fight.  the first part is when the bull just runs under their cape-thing.  the second part is when they stab them on the shoulders, and the 3rd part is either when the poor animal dies or they decide he put up a good fight and let him live in a pasture with lots of cows to make love with.  we watched a few videos, and the first part was cool, but the 2nd and 3rd got a little violent and disturbing for me.  i just have to keep reminding myself that its another culture over here and its not the violence that they go to see, but rather the dance, and passion and tradition of it all.  regardless of how i might look at it, i still want to go see a bull fight when they start in april.

and lastly today i went to the museo de bellas artes which is right down my street.  i went because i have to write a paper on it for my class.  it was a beautiful building (check out the pics once i upload them) but the art wasnt amazing to me.  it was all very religious (very catholic) with lots of virgins and babies with wings and people being crucified.  some of the paintings were beautiful and intriging, but it was a little much.  one thing that was really cool was a statue of the head of john the baptist (i didnt know who san juan bautista was until my friend told me it was john the baptist and he was decpitated).  the head was laying on its side so you could see where the neck should have connected to the body, and then you saw the inside of the neck, what it would have looked like if someone was really decapitated.  i thought that was cool.

anyways mis amigos, its about 12:30am and i still need to write a paper!  te amo!