Recovery Day

Well, yesterday was quite an eventful day, I suppose. I woke up around noon and then went over to Amanda's casa around 1:30 and had lunch over there. Her family is really fun. They had a bunch of people over for lunch. We got schooled in foosball or futboline, as it's known here. It's a big game here. Like they play tournaments in bars for money and stuff. For lunch we had paella and then some good bread with sugar thing for dessert. After lunch, we didn't have enough time to siesta so we worked on homework a little before we had to meet our class down at the plaza. We went on a tour of some Ubeda museums and then it ended with dinner at the last place with some of the host families that overlooked the mountains and olive groves and was really pretty. They served Sangria at dinner, which was SO good and we were drinking it like it was water...probably not the best idea. Also at dinner, there was a belly dancer. One of the dads told us "this is not typical of Ubeda!"...I guess belly dancers can be comparitive to strippers a little bit?!

Amanda's padre, Me and Amanda with the Paella

At one of the museums

The view as the sun was going down...around 10:00pm

After dinner we walked to this bar that was actually really close to my house (the plaza is not) and we drank for a couple hours. It's kind of odd here how the bars work. You get your drink and then they just keep bringing you food (for free). They also give you a bowl of sunflower seeds and you just spit them on the floor. After the bar Amanda and I walked back to my casa. Her madre had told her to have my hermano walk us home or to call her and she would come pick her up because she didn't want her walking by herself. When we got to my casa, everyone was out for the night...and it was 3am! We walked to her house (about 3 blocks) and then her mom drove me back here. Her family really is so nice!

So now I just woke up for the day and I'm a little hungover. Apparently, that doesn't happen to anyone else here. They drink for hours and feel fine. Must be nice. They also apparently don't need sleep and make fun of me for sleeping so much. I think today will be a day of homework and possibly going to the pool at Amanda's casa. I had some bread thing with chocolate in the middle for breakfast that was really good. And I had my milk with breakfast, madre makes me. Dani asked if Amanda and I wanted to go get coffee or whatever with him and his friends later tonight so we may do that after hours of homeworking.