Day 16 Tuesday July 14th

Day 16
Tuesday July 14th: Today really was just class and homework. I spent the morning in class learning more about indirect and direct objects, at the break had a bite of a really good croissant from the corner store, and then finished the morning in class. I spent some time with the group at Park Retiro. After a talk about string theory and whether aliens exist and if they do why we won’t ever find them, I came home to lunch with my host mothers son. Meals are still feasts every time I sit down (except for breakfast which is entirely meager). He spoke a bit of English so we were able to ask him where to find a Frisbee. He pointed us in the right direction along with showing us on google maps where we can go swimming in Madrid if we so desire. I took a nap this afternoon, and struggled a bit with my homework but managed to figure it out fairly well. Dinner was interesting. One of the guys I’m staying with decided to take an authentically Spanish meal of tortilla de patata (potato omelette) and mix some cheese in and have my host mother microwave it to melt the cheese. When he started to add cured ham she refused to heat it up for him, which proved to be entertaining. For the sole reason that I have eaten everything that has been placed in front of me she seems to hold me in rather high regard. Also I know the most Spanish of the three of us. I end up translating at meals. Which makes me wonder how they get along when I’m not there (for instance the bullfight and Carmen tomorrow night). Due to the nap I had a little trouble sleeping and it proved to provide interesting dreaming.