Espagne

Directly after class Friday, I hurried back to have a quick lunch and to get my stuff packed. Barely an hour after my class had ended - the car was packed and I'd had a hurried lunch. We were off to Spain!!! to visit Bérengère's sister. It was the first day of vacation for Europeens, but since we were on the road at 2 we beat most of the traffic.

Once we had reached Escala (where her sister Raymond lives with her husband Guy), we spend the evening relaxing and talking. It was very nice... I'd like to say I learned a lot of common French (oral, but not written), but I retained very little of it since I wasn't sitting there taking notes.

Saturday morning, Kaille, Pierre, and I went to the Dali Museum in Figueres. It was really weird. I wasn't prepared for all of the surrealism. I really haven't had much experience with it; however, it was a nice way to spend a morning. That was actually the first museum I've visited this trip. The afternoon was laid back - I ate too much and then slept for two hours before going to the beach for an hour. For dinner we went out to a Spanish Restaurant where the Spanish football game was playing which was fun (and the food was an amazing deal)

Sunday morning we went to a market on the beach - I didn't buy anything. It got really hot and we headed back to Raymond's house. We had to eat inside (rather than on the terrace where we'd had all our other meals) 'cause of the heat. Afterward we got ready to head back to France and had a nice drive back (with 20 minutes of a really bad rain storm (I don't think I've ever seen rain like that - the drops had to be the size of my thumb) and the temperature dropped 10 degrees... Celsius).

Overall I ate too much really good food during the weekend, but some of the food was just amazing. Guy actually fried French Fries for us! They were some of the best fries I can remember having. Oh and we had a special treat - paté. For those of you who don't know... Paté looks, smells, and I strongly believe, tastes like dogfood. Not the dogfood my mom makes for me - the stuff we would feed to Buster and Toby or the cats. I'd recommend trying flat looking peaches in you come across them though, they were delicious.

It was very relaxing way to spend the weekend, but almost too much French for me to handle - well, too much French I didn't understand. Whenever I didn't understand something they'd explain it - it it was so much information that I couldn't grasp it all.