ARROZ CUBANO

Today for lunch we had an interesting adventure, rice covered in tomato paste with over easy eggs. It is called Arroz Cubano and I highly do not recommend it. First off I can’t stand wet eggs and the tomato paste on the rice was very unusual. I gave my wet eggs to Sarah. Tonight we are having a Spanish tortilla, which is basically an omelet with potatoes and onions inside. I can handle this dish, as long as the eggs are not wet.

Yesterday I joined a gym here is Salamanca. It was 92 Euros for three months, which is about 120 dollars. I went to work out later in the day and there was a weight lighting class going on it was so funny to hear everything in Spanish. The instructor said ariba, abajo, ariba, abajo and counted out the sets in Spanish. I did the elliptical in Spanish. I did not really understand how to program it or what my weight is in Kilograms. There were lots of men working out at the gym. They all stared at me when I went to go lift weights. It was like they had never seen a girl lifting weights before!

I bought a bag to carry my camera and traveling stuff to bring on excursions when we walk through the cities. One of the girls on the trip told me that she knew someone who was carrying a small purse in Madrid, and someone came up behind her with a pair of scissors and cut the bag off and ran. I figured I should buy something more secure that I can wear across my body instead of on my shoulder.
I can’t wait for this week to be over. We will be done with intensivo, which is our grammar class, and then we will be traveling to Portugal on Friday. Unfortunately it is suppose to rain in Lisbon all weekend. I have been talking to a lot of people about their plans for spring break. We have just about two weeks off. I really want to see Paris and then go somewhere warm. A couple other girls had similar ideas, so we are going to investigate plane tickets today.