What I have learned so far!

I am constantly learning something new here in Spain... lingustically, I learned that they call bathrooms "aseos" instead of "banos," all the "c"s that sound like S's are turned into a "th" sound, and they drop the "s" off of many words, such as "dos" (two) becomes "do," and "tres" becomes "tre." They don't say "Que triste" (That's sad), but "Que pena," and many other things that are very different between Mexican spanish and Spanish spanish.

In addition, I have learned that you cannot buy a razor and toothpaste in the same place, as they are sold at two different types of stores. Razors are sold at a "drogeria" (a place that also includes hardware store types of stuff as well as products like shampoo), and toothpaste is sold at a "farmacia" (where medicine and other such things are sold). I have learned that I cannot apply for my Foreigners Identification Card here in Priego, but have to travel to Cordoba to do so. I have also learned that if you ask for a simple meal of bread, cheese and ham, they will ask you what kind of ham you like. When you look at them, confused, and say, "I dont know?" the waitress will show you a block of ham, and then a full leg of a pig (they cut the meat right off the leg), and you will squirm and say, "The block of ham, please." At least I'm not eating things that are still alive and moving around on my plate as my friend Claire is, who's living in Korea and eating squirming octopus legs, suckers and all.

Today I applied for a bank account, so it was quite a productive day! Is it bad that I now consider a productive day as a day that I actually get at least one thing done? Also, I'm going to meet up with the bilingual director from my school tomorrow to go see a vacant house his sister-in-law owns, and if I move there, he's going to ask some of the teachers coming in from out of town if they would like to share the place with me, so I'm crossing my fingers for Spanish roommates and an apartment that I like!

ALSO today while having lunch, I introduced myself to the cute bartender, who's name is Pedro. Maybe I will make friends with him, but who really knows? When I was speaking to him he said I was good at Spanish... I dont know if he was exagerating the truth and this was his way of flirting with me or if I really do have good Spanish, but I'll take the compliment just the same.

Anyways, now it is SIESTA time... everything (except some restaurants) closes between about 2-5:30 during the day, and people eat lunch and take a nap, then go back to work around 6 until 8. Will and I wanted to go to a market and buy some wine, but this will have to wait until later tonight.