Yo Te Tengo que Bigote una Pregunta

October 20th, 2013

A caracol I found

So, where did we leave off?  I have been teaching for 3 weeks now and it's going great.  Last week I taught photosynthesis by explaining that plants need ingredients to make their own food...and the example food was a cheeseburger.  If they lost their focus in class, I would just say hamburguesa and they would look right back to the board. (Interesting plant fact, all of the Carbon that plant uses to for everything including leaves, stems, and roots, comes from the air.  Plants literally appear out of thin air).  I also saw kids spell the number 1 as "juan" which made me laugh.

I started running through the town with my roommates and going to the gym. Kilos are really killing me though.  The conversion is 2.2 lbs = 1 kilo, but man it's still difficult to do at the gym.  It was funny because I would stop at times just to take a picture.  This is a really nice city.

This past weekend I was going to go to Cáceres, the city with the medieval structures.  However, we were celebrating my roommate's birthday on Saturday.  So I had to throw away my plans and had a blast with a group of 15 Spaniards.

First, we went to this bar called Taberna Bigote, which means mustache bar.  There was a private room for us downstairs that had different types of mustaches all over the wall.  Most were in English so they were asking me what they all meant.  They got a little carried away though and asked me a word that was actually a Spanish word!  The food was also exquisite.  We had goat cheese with caramelized onions, bacalao dorado (thin potatoes with egg and fish...yes fish.  You can't even taste it though), croquetas (a fried mashed potato), and meat.  The meat is so good here!

After lunch, we went back to my place where I got some real one on one time with my roommates friends.  Really, each one of them wanted to talk to me.  Some highlights were: this Spanish girl who had read all 5 books of A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones), Pedro, my roommates boyfriend, who promised to show me Cáceres when I go, and this guy who wanted to learn all of the dirty English words.  Obviously, I'm a teacher so I had to oblige.

Sunset over the River

Y ya está.  And that's that.  A great weekend to practice my Spanish.  I've