Well I've been promoted from pilgrim to princess! I have a room all to myself in a 3 bedroom apartment 2 floors up about a half hour walk out of town. One of the first things Fredy did for me was to connect my phone to their internet service provider. This is such bliss, to have warmth (and a hot cuppa) anytime I like. A home base, and people to easily connect with for questions, directions or just casual conversation. For those of you who don't know ... Fredy and I have been skyping and chatting on line since about August last year, teaching each other our languages. He is actually Columban (an so is his flat mate, Santiago) and his wife is Still back in Colombia, both Fredy and Santiago are here studying the depths of physical education and sports. So now we meet and it is great.
I decided to stay home for the first day and rest the blisters on my heels from the new shoes. I made some orange peel candy which astounded the guys, they'd never heard of eating the skin of an orange before. I offered to make dinner the next night, suggesting chapati (the thin Indian ones) and a vegetable stir fry. I'm glad I suggested it for the next night .... cos it gave me time to discover that the main meal of the day is lunch! They only eat fruit and jelly for the evening meal. So we had chapati wraps with a mixture of fish, onoins, tomato and a new word for me. ... pimientos - capsicums inside. With their usual drink of fruit juice and milk mixed. They made the fish mix, I made the chapatis. We all thoroughly enjoyed it.
Going shopping in the supermarket on my own is a bit of a lark! Half the time I don't know what I'm looking at. An the other half I'm deciphering what I want :-) also its interesting to see some of their sales tactics .... like check out the guy on the cleaning agent bottle, with pierced left ear! They certainly don't know the meaning of muesli here . . Almost all of them have chocolate in them, and the baking shelves area is sparse, unless you are happy to just add water and shake :-( It really gives me an appreciation for the variety of DIY foods in NZ, it also would appear to me so far that green veggies are not the norm in Spanish households, even the veggies I did see in the supermarket looked like they'd been waiting a long time for someone to realise their value.
Have a look at the notice oft seen on shop doors, their opening hours for mornings and afternoons :-)
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