Food...

So, yesterday, it was pretty monumental....we had PAELLA!!! Absolutely delicious...and Salud, being the very conscientious sweetheart that she is, made it without peas...yay! It was a seafood paella, so that meant that there were shrimp in there...WHOLE shrimp...being a midwestern girl, I can't say that I've necessarily ever seen a whole shrimp in a setting where I would need to consume said whole shrimp...Salud gave us a lesson in how to peel them...There were also little seafood guys that had shells...which to me is quite strange, eating something straight out of its shell, but that's how they do it here...i guess, when in Spain..., right? Anyway, paella=deliciousness... And I got a picture of Salud posing by her paella, which i will hopefully post here...

Also, the produce here is utterly amazing...And I have had more pomegranates in the last week than i had had in my whole life combined up to that point...yum! And, there was this sweet other fruit thing that Salud had us try...I believe it's called something to the effect of "chirimoya" but I'll have to do a little research to figure that out...I just looked it up on google...It is indeed spelled that way, and the English translation is "custard apple" for those of you who have heard of such a thing before...I, for one, have not...but, you should do a google images search for "chirimoya" if you would like to know what it looks like...Last but not least, I had a green orange yesterday...the peel was green, but the fruit was normal-colored...It was kind of a mandarin orange, i guess, but it wasn't all that sweet, but I was ok with that...but really, a green orange?? crazy...

And, random story time:
So, last night as I was watching "Gran Hermano" with Salud (translation: "Big Brother" just like in the States) Karla came in to ask if she could use my charger and I said yes and proceeded to try and tell her where it was, and basically failed in that attempt to use language...the gestures worked, but the language was an utter flop...so I go back to watching the tele, and then I hear this big thud from the bedroom...Salud instructs me to go check on Karla...I go to my closet, expecting to see my computer fallen to the floor...But, i notice the computer bag safely on my bed; so i turn to my closet...the shelf that was at the top is now below the hanger rod, as is all of the stuff that had been on top of the shelf...I still have no idea how it happened...Karla's not quite sure either...So, we proceed to take all the stuff off the shelf, but after we have taken the shelf out too, we realize that it is a pretty tight squeeze to get the shelf back in, so it has to go in at an angle...This means that all of my clothes must come out too...That accomplished, we turn back to the task of getting the shelf in: it needs to get above the little peggy things in the top little section, but also has to fit inside past the doors...This is proving to be a challenge and we are basically failing at it as well...so Salud has come in at this point and is instructing us what to do, and then she just ends up taking Karla's place and helping me lift it...except that I don't get the proper angle the first time, so the shelf is perched awkwardly in the top of my closet, which obviously won't do...so, like three tries later, we eventually get it, and I go on to put my closet contents back in their proper places...nothing was (seriously) damaged in the process, so that is good...but I'm still not even sure how the entire shelf just slipped out of place...it is boggling my mind...

Have a great weekend! If I get internet access at a café or something, you might possibly get another post from me, but no promises...