Jan 17th – Day of Pastries

Finally! It took three separate attempts, but we finally went to the pastry store! Walking in, there are different types of pastries on every shelf and everywhere you turn. Everything looks really good and it smells amazing. I’m so overwhelmed that I don’t even know what to choose. My friends get donuts or other treats and I decide to try a pastry from the window. It looks like a small piece of cake covered either in glazed icing, or like a donut (whatever the long donut is…just imagine it cut in half). It smells like a Harvey Wallbanger cake with a little hint of lemon. Taking a bite, it tastes like a really moist lemon cake, but it’s a little rich for me. In my head, I make a vow to go at least a few times a week and try something new. We have a two hour break today in between classes, so my friends and I walk over to a candy store nearby (since I’ve missed having candy all the time!). At this candy store, they have what is like our Blow-Pop, but it’s called Fiesta and it tastes really fruity and has a lot of gum inside. I also decided to try a twisler which turned out to be flavored like tutti fruity and fruit punch. Then we walked down to a bookstore since my friends needed to pick up their books for school. And the most surprising thing I saw there was that they had a book about Grace Kelly! Weird how even a whole world away, she’s still popular…or at least known. By then class is about to start and I have to get a move on. After class, I take the bus home and have lunch then take my siesta. When I wake up later, I tell Ana that I’ll be going out tonight with friends and I’ll be home late. I didn’t feel like having a lot for dinner, so she made me a sandwich and some yogurt. The sandwich was weird at first and I didn’t think I’d like it, but it turned out to be really good. It was smoked salmon with boiled egg slices…weird combo that I wouldn’t have put together but it tasted good. Mom would have been happy since it was filled with ‘lots of good protein and brain food’. After I went to the plaza. Meeting up with my friends, we went to the Can-Can. We had so much fun dancing and there were a lot of people there! Dominique, Victoria and I were really happy because there were a lot of good dancers (from Spain) and most of the time they are awful. We were there at the discothèque until it closed at 6:30am if that gives any indication of how much fun we had. The three of us danced, literally, for the whole time we were there and only left the dance floor to cool off and get more drinks. The Spaniards I had danced with kept asking me what part of Spain I was from! They thought I was a native and when I told them I wasn’t they would say ‘No really…what part of Spain are you from?” I was excited I passed for a native even if it only was at the discothèque! After we left, I caught the bus home and went to sleep.