Friday, June 28, 2013

Bob Esponja Y La Estrella Rosada & Other Misadventures

"Spongebob and the Pink Star" is the direct translation.

I say this because during dinner, we usually watch "How I met your Mother" in spanish, but we finished all of the episodes that we had, so we watched Spongebob in spanish and it was great.
My host mother and I were singing "Bob Esponja, Bob Esponja" while cleaning up, it's actually catchy. If you hear them say it on TV anyway....

Also, a friend and I actually went to an intercambio exchange last night. The one I was going to go to before, but I didn't want to go alone. It turn out to be a great deal of fun. Everyone there was just from the most random countries and they were all trying to speak English, some more successfully than others. We ended up talking to an older Spanish woman for roughly an hour and a half (when I say older, I mean roughly 40) in English and in Spanish, just switching back in forth (at seemingly random times, may I add). We learned a lot about Spanish history, and it was quite interesting (even more so to actually learn about it in Spanish). You would think that this woman was a history teacher or something, it was ridiculous. It was also fairly funny because she would stand obnoxiously close to us, so throughout the entire conversation we were subconsciously backing away and by the time that the intercambio finished, we were outside of the bar and a good 10-15 feet away from it. Definitely not used to that.

We also went to a bookstore. My gosh. I don't find bookstores even remotely interesting in the US, but here... Just every book that I would normally read in English interests me 120938 times more in Spanish. I even picked up a Garfield comic book in Spanish. There were soo many things I wanted to buy, but I decided that I couldn't own the store, so maybe I'd just have to settle for a book or two. (I want to go back and buy "The Peanuts" comic and "Animal Farm" in Spanish.)

After all of this, I went back to the Jazz Club. It wasn't AS good as tuesday, but it was still pretty great. And for 6 euros, no complaints. I think the Blues crowd is more excitable than the Jazz crowd.
A Jazz trio was playing and they were pretty good. Guitar, organ (keyboard), and drums. I felt like they needed to be a little more in-synch  It seemed to be basically a 2 hour solo that was missing rhythm at times.

Once in a lifetime muffin.








Sometime during these adventures I had a once in a lifetime muffin.
You know it's good because I had to use a fork in knife. (Fact)

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