Olive fields foreverrr

I forget what the last thing I wrote was so I'll just write about yesterday. We went to an olive oil factory. It was pretty cool to see how they make it. The guy who was showing us around was absolutely hilarious. So first of all, an olive tree can't be picked til it's 15 years old. Talk about an investment. When the olives are ready a machine shakes them out of the tree onto this umbrella thing that then dumps them into a truck. Then it comes in, they go on a belt thing to be sorted, cleaned etc. Then they get all juiced and squished and then they get made into oil. (Sorry that's real vague, the guy talked in Spanish.)

Then we walked up the world's longest, steepest mountain to get to the actual town part of Sabiote. One of the other American's host mom works at a school there so we stopped in, talked about America and had a little fiesta. Everywhere you look around this place there's olive trees. Everywhere is an understatement. Then we walked more uphill to go get the bus. Note: there was NO downhill walking all day. Our bus was a little late so I didn't get home in time for lunch. I missed it by about 30 minutes, but when I got home my lunch was sitting out on the table for me looking all sad. I hate to think that after today I only have 2 more lunches here.

After lunch, I siesta-ed (claro) and then had to get up to go to a 2 hour repaso for my test that was this morning. And my test, I mean final exam. I either did really well, or really bad. I followed what I thought were the rules, but I may have made them up. So either they're all right, or all wrong. I guess we'll find out soon enough. Our 4-5 page compositions are due by tomorrow night. I think mine's mostly ready, maybe just one more scan over to make sure it's alright. Finally, this paper has been taking for-ev-er.

When we all finished our tests today, we went and had a fiesta with our Spanish friends. They're so awesome. What's better than good food and good company? We also got little certificates for completing the intercambio. They did too. We had a little graduation, it was precious. After school, a bunch of us went to a store to buy some clothes. I'm proud to announce that I actually bought nothing for me, as bad as I wanted to, but finally knocked some gifts off my list!

I'm not really sure what the rest of the day holds. Clearly, siesta despues almuerzo. Then tonight at 8:30 we're having a big dinner/get together for all the host families, which should be fun. After that, I'm probably going to be forced to go out with my brother and friends. And by forced, I mean invited and I'll willingly go. I mean, it is my last weekend in Ubeda. SO SAD.