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mi madrid: Pictures!
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Friday, February 26, 2010. FINALLY, pictures from Santiago and Portugal. Guadalupe, Cáceres, Mérida and Trujillo). I'm sorry it took me so long! Also, yes, those are square watermelons. February 28, 2010 at 8:21 AM. Ohhhh Spanish supermercados. The other day a friend of mine mentioned that he liked a particular supermarket because its organized. Just that. Because its organized. As we know, thats actually a luxury in groceries here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Livin' la vida loca en Madrid.
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mi madrid: Grocery Shopping
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Saturday, February 27, 2010. So I’m in Madrid again, in my lovely little apartment near Plaza de España, feeling decidedly more Spanish than this time last semester. I’ve been spending a lot of time at the grocery store lately (seeing as I finally. Am able to cook my own food, and all). Ordinarily, I love. I nearly sprinted out of the aisle that was dedicated almost entirely to tuna – tuna in every possible form and every conceivable type of packaging (can, tin, jar, box, bag…). I hurried...Is a particul...
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mi madrid: ¡Más Fotos!
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Here are pictures of Getafe. Southern Madrid, where my university is), and getting there and back from Madrid. Also last weekend we went up north and visited the regions La Rioja (where the wine Rioja comes from) and País Vasco (Basque Country). The pictures. Are of Burgos (birthplace of the written Spanish language), Haro (where we visited a bodega and drank some good wine), San Sebastian (BEAUTIFUL), and Bilbao (mostly the Guggenheim, but gosh is that city beautiful too).
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mi madrid: December 2009
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Friday, December 25, 2009. The Cultural Halfway House. Everyone in the hotel spoke English and Spanish, and thus all my conversations inevitably included both. But the hotel staff just switched back and forth with me as if this was absolutely normal (apparently Spanglish is the official language in this in-between place). Lunch was available between 1:00 and 3:00 pm, gracefully encompassing both the traditional American and. I’ve spent four and a half months in a country where “splenda”...In my lovely th...
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mi madrid: February 2010
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Saturday, February 27, 2010. So I’m in Madrid again, in my lovely little apartment near Plaza de España, feeling decidedly more Spanish than this time last semester. I’ve been spending a lot of time at the grocery store lately (seeing as I finally. Am able to cook my own food, and all). Ordinarily, I love. I nearly sprinted out of the aisle that was dedicated almost entirely to tuna – tuna in every possible form and every conceivable type of packaging (can, tin, jar, box, bag…). I hurried...Is a particul...
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mi madrid: September 2009
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Sunday, September 27, 2009. In Spanish, lengua. Means both “language” and “tongue.” Interesting that they should be the same word, because my tongue- lengua. Has still not been able to settle comfortably into this goddamn Spanish- lengua. 8211; it means shame or embarrassment. So at least I can go home to my host family and adequately describe my post-shopping emotional state. That’s progress. 8221; which would mean (if such a phrase actually existed) “the running language.” To me this ju...When I first ...
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mi madrid: The Spanish "Actitud"
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Saturday, October 10, 2009. I mentioned before that “awkward” really isn’t a part of Spanish culture – un marrón. Can mean an awkward situation, but there is just no way in Spanish to call a person. 8220;awkward." I take this to mean that Spaniards are all just so guay. Cool) that awkwardness simply isn’t in their genes. But wait - I’m not like that! For God’s sakes, people, say it! Better yet, yell it. Get it out there! And for the love of God - stop apologizing for every. Polite. Rather than raisin...
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mi madrid: November 2009
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009. The curious nature of curiosity. So I’m taking this journalism class called “The history of writing, printing… (and something else)”, and I am only. Taking it because I needed the credits in order to meet my program’s requirements (nothing else fit into my schedule). But the class is so painfully boring (could you tell that from it’s title? Things such as making a list of all the books that I have read out of the top 100 most banned books (I have read 26 of them, by the way).
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mi madrid: Café
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010. I should have posted this a few weeks ago, sorry! I’m officially a “regular” at my favorite café. It’s called Cáscares and after several weeks of loyal patronage, my (endearingly grumpy) waiter finally paused, smiled, and said: “Hola, ¿qué tal? Cáscares provides the perfect ratio of laid-back to cheerfully busy, with good food and interesting clientele, and despite its chic décor it is a firmly traditional Spanish cafetería. From what I can tell, “cáscares” comes from...
