MI MADRE

We have been talking more and more with our Madre and we have been getting know here better. She really is a sweet old lady who likes taking care of us. She does not like when we leave our room a mess. Today after our dinner, which was pâté, an omelet and a salad, we went and talked with our Madre. She asked us about what we liked in our diner. We both told her that we did not like pâté. It is seriously the most disgusting looking and tasting thing every. I finally fessed up the bread, so maybe I wont have to keep hiding it in my suitcase. I also told her I really like nutella, so maybe she will buy us some because the Randi jar is running pretty low.

When we were done talking about food, Sarah asked our Madre about her favorite TV show, Mira Que Baile. Our Madre is glued to the TV whenever this show comes on. Mira Que Baile, which roughly means ‘watch that dance,’ is the Spanish version of our Dancing with Stars. Our Madre loves to watch the dancing and listen to the music. She told us when she was younger she was very skinny and liked to dance a lot, but now that she is old and fat she cannot dance anymore! She even called herself a cow! We asked what her favorite dance was. She told us she liked then all and then she asked us if we knew any dances. We told her no, but we want to learn the salsa. This is where the conversation turned really funny. She told us to go to the Rojo y Negro Café, because you can learn how to salsa there. Isabella, our Madre’s daughter was in the room too. She immediately said “No, No, No you don’t want to go there, that’s a strip club.” Isabella and our Madre went back and forth over whether the café was a strip club or not. I thought it was quite funny especially because if Isabella had not been in the room our Madre would have sent us to a strip club! It was also really cute when our Madre got up to go make her dinner she did the Cha Cha down the hall to the kitchen.

We did not have class today, so everyone had a relaxing day of nothingness. I fully enjoyed being lazy and sleeping in. I did go to my little Spanish gym and saw the most ridiculous man in the craziest shorts on the elliptical. I could not look at him because I thought I would just start laughing too hard. I went on a quest to find more Nutella, but after three supermercados I was unlucky. I will search again tomorrow.