Jan 23rd – Day of Pastries, Take Two

With only one class on Wednesdays, it was quickly becoming my favorite day of the week. Plus it was one of my most fun classes, civ. Today we learned about the different political parties in Spain since they have an election for the president coming up this year (I think in April). Afterwards we even watched a couple of commercials for the political candidates, and they were really vocal in what they wanted from their president. And I mean that in the sense that…well, here it’s better if I describe the commercial. A clear ballot box starts out empty, first an old man comes up with a piece of paper with ‘We are tired of the discrimination, we are not ignorant’, folds it and puts it in the box. The next person that is younger and more Hispanic, same set up but ‘Tired of not getting the same rights. I deserve them too’ and as the commercial goes on, more and more different types of people putting their opinion in the box. Then the candidate talks about what they want to offer the people of Spain and then a music montage of the person with fellow Spaniards that love him. It’s like he is cheered on as if he were a hero who saves the village. But instead of a village, he will save Spain. Then his slogan ‘The better Spaniard’. And all of them are that vocal. It was surprising but cool. After class was over, I ran into Victoria and Trevor. They had a break in between their classes so we went to the pastry shop. I got the pastry that I had before, which was awesome. And Victoria got this pastry that tasted like frosted flakes! It was so weird, it was like those honey buns but more flaky and less saturated with the stuff that’s on it. It was like a croissant texture, and was covered with powered sugar. In the middle there was sweet cheese, but white. I think I found my second favorite pastry. Then they went to their next class and I went to my host home for lunch and to work on some homework. My friends Katy, Michelle, Victoria, Dominique, Trevor and I were leaving to go on a trip to Barcelona this weekend. We didn’t have class on the following Monday because of holiday, so this would be our first trip together. We were definitely ready for Thursday. Even when I told Ana, she was excited for me and upon telling Adrian that I wouldn’t be here this weekend, he got upset. He’s so cute, and then Ana said ‘Oh, but you are going too! Don’t you want to go the Barcelona with Lela?’ and because he was upset I was going, he said ‘No!’ and folded his arms to pout more.