Upcoming Weekend

We had a group dinner last night at a resteraunt called Casa Mingo. It serves typical Asturian food, and we got to enjoy Cabrales (astrong cheese), grilled chicken and cider. Rafa, our history teacher, was kind enough to be our escanciador. Apparently with cider, you have to pour the cider from up high into a glass down low, otherwise the cider tastes bad. Somehow the shock of hitting the glass completes the fermentation process, something like that. Anyways, the escanciador is the person who pours the cider in such a manner. The dinner was a lot of fun, and it´s always great to get together with everyone in the program to eat.

We have a three day weekend, and I´ve got a packed schedule. Despite a number of amusing setbacks, I´m heading to the Escorial tomorrow, and to Granada Saturday and Sunday. We not only have bus tickets, but reservations in a hostel and tickets to the alhambra. It sounds like we´re organized, but we´re really just saving up all of our calamity for the last second. I´m in the process of puring my camera, in hopes of lots of sweet architecture, landscapes, etc, so hopefully I´ll have some images to share at the end of the weekend.

Sean OUT