I feel like I’ve done a lot today! Probably because I’ve been up since 8:45 (which is extremely early for me, being a non-school day and all!). I had an English lesson with Carmen at her house at eleven o’clock. I hadn’t seen her since before Christmas break, so we had plenty to talk about! I left her house about 12:15 and went to the market; not that I was looking for anything specific really, I just wanted to browse. I did walk away with two kilos of mandarinas, though, for only 1.75€!

I brought the fruit home (two kilos of mandarinas can be heavy to carry around for a long time!) and went to Arturo’s to barrow their measuring cup, since I’ve decided to make arroz con leche either today or tomorrow (probably tomorrow).

On my way back I stopped at the store for some juice and hamburger meat (odd combo, I know!). Whilst there, I was browsing in the dairy section and this older lady was like “can you help me?” So I walked over and she asked when the yogurt she had picked up expired. I told her February 8. She then asked if the yogurt had sugar in it. It said so on the package and so I told her yes. At that point she confessed that she couldn’t read any of the smaller print. She grabbed my hand (in kind of a grandmothery way) and said something else. I could have sworn she said something else about sugar and so I said yes again. At that, she dropped my hand, gave me a really disgusted look and turned away. I’m still not sure what I actually said yes to…but clearly it wasn’t something good! I had to laugh as I went up to check out. It’s these types of things I’ll always remember!

I’m just chillaxing right now. At six, Will and I are going to watch a movie in English with the English club. No plans after that though. We’ll have to see what tonight brings…

Xoxo,

Court