So my family here is unconventional, but one tradition they do keep is the genius one of Cake Sunday (which means that every Sunday the dinner dessert is cake, obviously). And this is what I've been looking forward to all week, Cake Sunday. Cake Sunday is the only reason to even start weeks, in my opinion. So last night I walk around the neighborhood for a few hours with Rachel, we eat patatas bravas and a chicken dish at a really cheap and trashy neighborhood restaurant, I talk about how excited I am that Cake Sunday has finally arrived, whatever. And then I go home and I siesta, await for the knock on my door telling me about dinner time, which really is just a formality until cake time. And so eventually I wake up, it's 11pm, my family's watching a football game with some amigos, drinking the cans of Estrella and bottles of Voll-Damm that've been hanging out in the kitchen this weekend, and I'm not eating cake. But not only was there no cake involved, but no dinner, either.
AND THEN TODAY the bocadillo my host-mom packed for my lunch consisted of a few scoops of mashed potatoes encased in a tomato-rubbed hogie. What the hell, who eats potato sandwiches? What kind of balanced-diet does that lunch promote? Starch upon starch- if the idea behind this was to comfort me through my malnourishment, it failed.
Anyway, this could be a post that ends in me using my voice and talking about things, discovering that these are just wacky misunderstandings, but for now it just ends in head-shaking bewilderment.
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I was just cranky.
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No comiste anoche? Que mal. Lo siento. Aúnque "Cake Sundays" es una idea muy linda. Tu blog es más popular que mio, y así, soy un poco amargo. Pero no me importa. "No me importa" es mi frase para mi viaje, porque cuando algo va mal o yo no entiendo algo, digo "¡No me importa! ¡Todo bien!" Es una frase importante para tí a aprender. Porque tu estás en España, así, ¡todo es bien! Quizas puedes ver; mi palabra favorita en español es "así."
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Cake Sundays is for sure, one of the most wonderful ideas I have ever heard of!! We should,sometime when we are both in la misma lugar, debíamos tener "cake sundays". Te extrano bastante, linda, y cuando voy a comer en la pachanga aquí me hace pensar en ti. Hopefully you don't think I am a creep. Love you lots! Espero que todo contigo vaya bien!!
ReplyDeleteAnna Z. Williams how would I ever think you're a creep? Te echo de menos, carina. Mielta- remember when I tried to make that word up?
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