the fifth week begins!

It was a great Monday morning for this girl! Despite being zombie-like from our wild weekend in Madrid, I enjoyed an apple and brie for breakfast with my usual café, (their version of coffee which is basically espresso it's so strong). Surprisingly, I now prefer coffee black with sugar, weird.. With Spanish news in one ear and American news about the Grammys on my iPad, it was a good morning to be alive in Spain :)

Started my human resources management course today through the international business school here! It is going to be a great class! Abby is in it with me along with 4 other Americans, kids from Scotland, Germany, Finland, Holland, and Poland! Not to mention a really cool teacher who happens to be the Dean of the business school here of over 7,000 students.. Connections?- check that off the list. And better yet, he has been to Mizzou's campus! I'm going to ask him tomorrow who he knows there. It's got to be someone connected to CLP, so hopefully I'll know them! And I thought the US was a "small world"...

I also learned how to make Spanish tapas tonight! About ten of us went to a cooking school that CIEE organized and they taught us how to make some traditional Spanish tapas! Hey friends- if you're reading this you'll get a Spanish dinner made by me as your souvenir when I get back! (sorry, don't have room for 20 pairs of cool spanish leather boots...) And fam- Green Lake Spanish night is coming your way so get excited! It was really fun and soo good. Lots of potato things, but also this great tuna salad kind of thing, (and i don't even like tuna out of a can, but this was good), omelette type thing, and fried calamari! I'm sure the calamari here is much better than what I could find in the Midwest but it will be fun to try anyways. I go back next Wednesday for round two where we make more of a meal rather than appetizer type foods! Traditional paella and stuff. I'll take my camera that night..

This is a GIANT dish of paella (pronounced pie-ay-uh) and Alicante is known for the best paella in Spain. It's a rice or noodle dish with either seafood, vegetables, or meat/chicken. I prefer the seafood and vegetable one. I'll learn how to make this at my next cooking lesson!

Time for a busy day of class straight through from 9-4:30! I do still go to school here, despite what it may seem from reading this.. :)

-k