JAPAN!!!!

today a girl from Japan moved in (wow i def just struggle write that sentence in english was def about to say "arrived a girl from Japan today" haha). she's my age, has a bf, speaks english alright, knows very few words of Spanish so i get to translate (haha yeahhhh). she's only here for 3 weeks tho. she said they have a special program. after talking to Lola and others i learned its hard to go from Japanese to Spanish. Yuki goes from Japanese to Englsh then to Spanish sometimes i think is what she told me. but yeahhh there's 10 people in her group and they are here to learn about the culture. she said something about having a class or 2 in english here because they don't know spanish. i can't even imagine. i have a decent vocab and don't understand things and they know very little. Que loco! p.d.: we're friends on facebook now.

ma, you got some competition in the kitchen

Pura makes my fave food ALL the time! i LOVE it!!! she's made patatas ali oli, filloas (gallego crepes)--i fill them with chocolate, and the other day patatas bravas mmmmmmmmm yummmm!!! in our Galician class the today we were talking about different dishes and i was able to say that i had filloas last night for the 2nd time haha ahhhh so good! then she proceeded to talk about patatas bravas and well i had that one covered as well. so i had to ask what the difference between patatas ali oli and patatas bravas are because they taste very similar. notes from class are as follows: (las salsas)

Patatas ali-oli -- AJO + mayonesa

Patatas bravas -- Ketchup + picante

and that ladies and gents is the difference between the 2. i tell ya they are the most amazing patatas evaaaaaaaa

mom--your potato salad and grilled diced potatoes have some competition...i'm a sucker for that garlic sauce!

**but yes, if will be coming home knowing how to make patatas ali oli, patatas bravas, filloas, y tortilla espanola i will tell ya that!!!

~officially love it here...never wanna leave~

i LOVE being surrounded by a SEXY foreign language ALL the TIME and TRAVELING and everything else that SPAIN has to OFFER!!! the FOOD, la GENTE, the festivals, the SUN, being chill, puesssssss TODOS!!!