Wednesday July 8th: Today is great. I spent the morning in classes after eating breakfast at home and trying to communicate with my host mother that we wouldn’t be here for lunch because we went to the Museo del Prado. Class is great. Everyone has loosened up a little and we are starting to joke around a have fun the with activities that we have to do for the class. For instance today we described our dream home in Spanish in front of the class and drew a picture of it as a group. There were some interesting things put into some houses: pools, four car garages with limosines in them, floors of gold, etc… After school though, we had a twenty minute break during which I bought a loaf of bread and had that as a snack knowing that lunch would be later if I got one at all. Then, we went to the Prado. The school was required to show us the Goya and the Velasquez paintings and so they rushed to those which was really frustrating to me. It was similar to reading cliffs notes for the middle of a book and expecting to be caught up. However, I met up with John Bundick and we spent a good 3-4 hours in the museum while most students left after the requisite 40minutes to an hour. I got to see Spain’s most famous canvas in Diego Velasquez’s Las Meninas. Which while an amazing painting (I think I looked at that alone for about 10-15 minutes) was not my favorite part of the museum. My favorite part of the museum was marveling at the sculptures and how they were made without modern tools and techniques. I have been craving good conversation and today has been abounding in that. I had a great afternoon talking with John about art and faith and just trading stories back and forth as we walked through the museum. I was able to teach him a little about art and he a little bit to me about faith. The afternoon was spent looking at great art and with good conversation. It has been nice not having a huge meal for lunch. I like feeling hungry instead of completely way beyond full. We pretty much kept talking right up until I got off the train at my stop, in fact I almost missed my stop. I then came back and answered and sent some emails before dinner. Dinner was very interesting. It was the first time that something had been put in front of us that none of us liked. I’ve never been fan of beans much less bean soup, but I didn’t really have a choice. Then out came the salad which I have a picture of.
Yes those are anchovies that have been halved. You eat them whole, tail and all. All in all the meal was, as always, filling it was just a struggle to put down at times. Dinner was good though because we were able to have a full conversation with our host father. We spent a good 30-40 minutes talking with him while we ate, which is unusual. After dinner talked to Sarah for a while then I finished my homework which was to come up with 10 differences between the US and Spain. That is a discussion for another time. After I finished my homework I went to bed and slept soundly.
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