In the meantime

Hello friends and family,

To be rather honest with all of you, nothing really exciting has happened the last two weeks since my last post. That is partly because I have been swamped with homework, exams, papers, and scholarship applications. However for the other part, I am settling into life in spain, and new things don't really seem so new anymore. I am sure they would be strange and wierd for you, but after spending more than a month and a half here, most of it just seems to come with the territory. For example, the elections are coming up March 9 here in Spain. Denia has become littered with political ads, posters, and what not. In fact, I was woken up to a car with a huge loud speaker talking trash about Zapatero (the current president, and candidate for the upcoming elections, he's rather liberal). I have never seen that in the States, but I wasn't surprised after seeing how rabid Spaniards can get about elections.

Another example, I ate entire fish the other day, including their heads, tails, skin, and bones. It was delicious, and my padre always tells me that the flavor is in the skin, so I am forced to eat it. I tend to agree with him. I can't picture myself liking that in the States, but if you put enough olive oil on anything, it tastes great.

We are heading to Andalucia this Thursday to see what Granada and Cordoba have to offer. I need to remember to put batteries in my camera before we leave, for your sake if not my own. It should be very different than the trip to Barcelona, I think we have better living arrangements this time or at least we better, or else I am staging a protest with pickets and the like. If you know anything about the history of this region of Spain, the art and culture show very strong connections with its Muslim past.

I am glad to hear you all enjoyed my article the previous week. I think I want to write another, but I can't think of an enfoque (focus). Any ideas?

Tommy