Food, Weather

People wanted to know about the food I am eating. Spaniards eat tons of meat and everday I eat some sort of red meat. I have never eaten so much red meat in my entire life. I guess I am just building my cholesterol for my lifetime this year. Some central american friends said they eat bull penis here so they really are into the meat...

For breakfast Spaniards hardly eat anything. I have cookies-which are more like graham crackers with whole milk. I also sometimes eat yogur. They have cereal but it isn´t typical. There are pastre shops with good stuff but most people just get coffee.

After waiting all day until about 2 I eat lunch which is the biggest meal of the day. Lunch will be some meat- usually pork or hamburger. I haven´t had chicken yet except for eggs. Lunch we usually have some pasta and bread. They use tomato sauce on their pasta so it tastes different. I usually make some toast with jam because i need sugar and they dont eat much of it at all. I am very full after a plate of all meat and pasta. They don´t really season anything and most restaurants dont have pepper. My meals have been very similar except one dish is like a cooked cheese with this fishy taste, it was terrible. They grow peppers here so we have cooked peppers on occasion and they are delicious. It is typical to eat a lot of fish in parts of Spain but here it isn´t as prevelant. No one really has acne so all the protein they eat must be helping. I haven´t had too many vegetables and it may just be the lady who cooks for me or I don´t really know.

The meals I have had are (pizza, spagetti and meatballs, pork, tortilla de potata, eggs, sausages, peppers, roast beef, beef stir fry stuff, pastres, cresants, bread, nasty fish thing, Salami sandwiches, pudding- but it is warm. I am sure i am forgetting some but you get the point. Meat Meat Meat.

Dinner is really late and I eat at 8 oclock which is super early. My roomates dont eat until 10 at least. Dinner is usually more meat, with sausages and sometimes pizza. They always use ham on their pizza. After dinner people will then go out for a drink.

One typical cocktail here is called Sangria and it is red wine with some sort of juice. The name comes from the word blood so it is red obviously. There are other Spanish drinks but in the north here we don´t have a lot of them. Everyone drinks wine and beer. They have really cheap beer that people buy in liter bottles. In the bars it is typical to drink beer with limon. Everyone always makes fun of american beers cause they are so thin but i wouldn´t know much.

Weather

Today it is in the 70´s and kind of cloudy and sunny. It is rare for it to be completely sunny but it can be. There is usually an overcast and sometimes rain. It hasn´t rain a lot but I guess it will soon. Last night it rained and I used the "nice umbrella i got from my dad" it broke after about 6 seconds but it still sort of works. It has gotten down to almost freezing but only one night. It is usually 60´s or 50´s during the night. It will snow some here, but they are babies about it. They never wear shorts in the fall so I am always sweating while walking my 25 minutes to class.

I haven´t really gone out a lot to eat the food cause it is very expensive usually 10 -12 euros. They have little appetizers at bars that are really good. They vary greatly and can be seafood or sausage things. Their markets are cheap so it would be cheap to make food but I never need to worry.