¡Un mes en España! (One month in Spain!)

I guess I was wrong about visitng Aguarón every other weekend because I'm in Aguarón 

again! I like it though; it's very peaceful, and the house is substantially bigger than the 

apartment in Zaragoza. We left the big city on Friday after 6 pm, and I guess since we arrived 

later than usual, we had sandwiches (bocadillos) for supper instead of a cooked meal. But 

they were good just the same! They had sausage and salami that had olives in it. We ate 

about an hour earlier than usual, 8 pm. For dessert we had yogurt, and when Rosa bent down 

to give Missy, her cat, the yogurt wrapper for licking, another cat attacked Rosa and 

scratched her! But it wasn't serious. Only a small scratch. It attacked because it was hungry. 

Rosa said that it belongs to her neighbor. After supper, I decided to watch a movie. I don't 

know if I've mentioned this before, but my host mom, Rosa, has many good movies! Most of 

them have won Oscars. The movie I picked that night was "The English Patient," which was 

about the ending of WWII. It definitely was worth watching! Moreover, once I learn Spanish 

completely, I'll watch it in Spanish, test out my much improved listening skills. 

The next day, Saturday, was pretty calm. There's nothing much to do in Aguarón, not like in 

Zaragoza where there are a bunch of stores and the rest of the SYA students are. For lunch 

we had cream of vegetable soup, pork loin, fried peppers, and kiwis. The peppers 

(pimientos) that I've seen in the US can be held in the palm of your hand, right? Well the ones 

here are huge! It might be hard to tell from the pictures, but believe me, they seem twice as 

big! And there was a big pile of them in the kitchen, so I wanted to take a picture of them. For 

supper we had them fried again, in addition to cooked tomotoes and eggs with bread. Hmm 

hmm hmm. So good. I love that the Spanish use the bread as a sort of sponge for any food 

that's left on the plate. No wasting food here. For dessert I had plain yogurt with sugar in it. On 

the sugar packet it said "El café da vida": "Coffee gives life." I thought that was funny. After 

dinner we went to the Casino. We sat outside, and since there was WiFi, Rosa told me to 

bring my laptop, so I did. I drank some strong Spanish coffee. Decafinated, quite small, and 

with sugar. I liked it, but I think it was a bit too strong for my taste. 

Sunday's lunch consisted of fried peppers a third time and beans with chicken and a small 

piece of sausage. For dessert we had pineapple (piña). We left Aguarón around 4 pm. 

I'VE BEEN IN SPAIN OFFICIALLY FOR A MONTH!!! It's felt both longer and shorter at the 

same time. How is that possible??? I've been thinking what it would have been like to do 

SYA Summer for five weeks only, and I'm very happy that I chose instead to do the whole 

year. If I were to leave Spain a week from now, I would not feel as if I had gained a lot of 

knowledge about the culture nor improved my Spanish very much. Moreover, I feel as if I've 

just found my rhythm here, and to leave so soon would be sad and sort of frustrating to me. 

This upcoming week is going to be very exciting and busy because it's the week of Pilar 

here in Spain! Which also means I only have 2 or 3 days of school this week so that the 

students have time to see and visit many of the events.  

Giant peppers.

Rosa's cat, Missy