Carrefour and more

I was not going to post today but I have to tell about our new experience yesterday.

Yesterday we went to the Carrefour… a.k.a. Walmart. It’s like Walmart in that it has everything you could possibly want and more… food, clothes, fresh seafood, an entire aisle of whole ham hocks, 2 aisles of wine, an aisle just for birds, a huge section of furniture and beds, freshly baked bread, pastries, a wall of chocolate :) … you get the idea. We definitely fit the stereotype of crazy Americans – taking pictures of everything, laughing uncontrollably at the amount of dead fish in front of us. People were staring and pointing… it was great.

You gotta break down and enjoy the differences every now and then instead of always trying to fit in and look like you’ve lived here all your life. There were fish heads bigger than my laptop! Life is good

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I’m sitting on a bench right now in a park in between my house and the CLM. The weather is beautiful, the sun is out, and I left the house without a coat for the first time since I’ve been here. In a little bit I am going get more minutes put on my phone. (I have been out for about a week) There is a little internet place on my street and I found out last night that it costs more to call a cell phone in Spain than it does for me to call home to the US. Explain that!

I am also going back to the hospital today, hopefully to play with more kids. Tonight we are going salsa dancing again. As for school, classes are almost over – our exam is Tuesday and then I am off to Munich for the break. I am going with Catherine, Marysa, and Cole. We are flying into Munich, have a hostel there for 2 nights and then who knows. We are all picking 2 things we want to do and that way we all get to see things we want and other things we wouldn’t have done on our own. I am so excited to finally do some traveling!

Hope all is well at home! Keep sending me updates – I don’t want to miss anything!! :)