Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Dos Meses en España

Things I've Learned:

  • Time flies
  • What rabo de toro (tail of the bull) tastes like
  • A Spanish children’s song about Jesus
  • How Pasa Palabra, my favorite game show, works
  • A Big Mac tastes like the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten – if you haven’t eaten a real burger in months
  • Approximately how much a breakfast of cafe con leche and a media tostada con tomate y aceite should cost
  • The verb “quedar” can be used about 6 different ways
  • The correct way to use the phrase puta madre!
  • Some American movies come out in Spain long before they come out in the US
  • Fried camembert is pure heaven
  • I forgot to pack sweaters
  • Real Betis is better than Sevilla in futbol
  • It takes about a month to get Internet installed here
  • 20% of the words in Spanish originated from Arabic
  • Marble floors + high ceilings + no direct sunlight = cold apartment
  • How much a haircut costs
  • Where my favorite view of the sunset in Sevilla is
  • There’s a tapas bar in Triana with killer fried eggplant
  • In 1981, a failed military coup occurred in Spain
  • Spaniards express emotional easily – with little prompting, they yell in anger, cry tears of sadness or happiness and they laugh a lot

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice :D