Something Spain

Whoo man, have we been off our blogging game this week! Not to worry, you didn't miss too much, just another week of class, more or less. One update: Esperanza has started buying butter! So that's been a fun edition to an already-opulent breakfast.

"Constant Rain of Ideas"/Shower of Lightbulbs

Other than that... Tutoring, class...Ah, we started our Cultural Passport activities at last. In retrospect, we should have started waaayyy earlier, but we'll just have to do our best. The activity we went to this week was a free movie screening of this old-ish Italian movie called La Lozana Andaluz. "La Lozana" is a Spanish girl who moves to Rome, falls in love with a cute boy, and then they, with the help of his aunt, set up a whorehouse together and live together in prosperity. Very heartwarming.

Tomorrow, we go to the Reina Sofia and the Valle de los Caidos--Franco's tomb for WWII casualties. Gotta say, I am a little uncomfortable with the level of esteem some people still seem to hold for Franco. Like, why are we going to see one of his monuments? Hopefully we'll find out tomorrow.

Today's pic is from the window of a place near where we do tutoring. We haven't been able to figure out what the actual business is, but the window display always has some kind of artsy sculpture made out of bathroom appliances. Go figure.

We swam with the Middlebury girls Tuesday and today and aced our Latinamerican Lit midterm. All in all, a good week thus far. Also, Zayn and the boys released their latest music video last Friday, and tickets for their 2015 tour went on sale this week! Woohoo!