Thanksgiving in Spain

The much-awaited pictures are here! Let's narrate: First, there is my Thanksgiving dinner...I will get to that later; second, you have me "wearing" the orange glasses (the strip in the middle is optional, but it shows that you've got more orange-peeling skills if you can keep it there...); ...Below, and third, is a picture of the orange peel to give you a better idea of how it is cut, in case any of you feel like attempting it before I can show you... :)





Ok, now, as I said, I will talk about our Thanksgiving...Well, it started off as a rainy day, which is a little bit atypical here in Sevilla. For that reason, I opted to not go to Italica (the Roman ruins nearby) since it was all outdoors...I ended up going shopping with some other girls instead...The rest of the day was pretty normal...In the evening I got ready for our dinner (we had to be at the restaurant by 9pm...schedules are quite a bit different here...) Evidently everyone except for Karla and me had been told to get "guapa" for the night...somewhat in rebellion and as revenge for not being important enough to be told, I wanted to not get super-guapa...but in the end I relented and I got halfway guapa...moving on...

So, I barely make it to the restaurant in time...or maybe I didn't after all, but others were later than me, so it was ok...We waited around for about an hour, and were rather ravenous since it was 10pm and we had not had any food since 3pm...the school passed out papers with nice things that the other students and the staff had written about each person...among mine were "great dimples", "cool socks", and "reminds me of a medieval princess"...it was amusing if nothing else...

Well, finally our food came (we were the last to be served, of course)...and, as you can probably tell from the picture, it was pretty disappointing, but that's what I was expecting...I must say, the green beans were amazing! Other than that, though...yeah...I'm also pretty sure that the meat was NOT turkey, and when I told Salud about my suspicions, she remembered that some other year one of the girls told her that it was ostrich meat; evidently ostrich meat is cheap here and turkey is rather expensive...who would have thought??

We later got dessert (carrot cake and/or flan; the flan was pretty good) and then got our "amigo invisible" gifts, aka "Secret Santa" gifts...I got a salt and pepper shaker from the ceramics shops! Which is funny, since I bought my "amigo invisible" a cute little cup from the ceramics shop...hehe...

So, all in all, the food wasn't great but the company was wonderful!

Hope you all have a great week!

Oh, and just in case you were wondering, I'm pretty sure that it's only 19 days until I'm home!! Crazy!!