11/1/10
On Monday, it was All Saints’ Day. This is always the first of November and it is a pretty big holiday here. I spent the morning studying, because I knew in the afternoon, we would be having a big family party. Even though Pepita was on her cruise all her kids came over to our house around 5:30. Not everyone got there until around 6:30 and we started eating shortly after that. It was nice seeing there whole family all together, but it makes following conversations way harder. I think that is one thing I have been missing out on here… group conversations in Spanish. I can listen to Pepita or my professors and follow along just fine, but when multiple people are talking it is hard to follow the conversation. Another thing that made it hard was the Catalan. They knew to speak Castellano, because I was there and that wasn’t hard for the adults, but Juan Carlos who is my age was having a really intense conversation about the law and he naturally switched into Catalan because of how into the topic and conversation he was. For food, they put out a bunch of snack foods and sandwich making items. We did pan con tomate (bread with tomato and olive oil), which is how they make all their sandwiches. Basically the method is this: cut a tomato in half and then forcefully rub it on the bread, and then drizzle the bread with olive oil and add meats and cheese. We also had lots of finger foods like chips and crackers to enjoy with the meal. For dessert, we had roasted chestnuts and roasted sweet potatoes. These two things are always eaten for this holiday. It was the first time I had tried roasted chestnuts and they were great! Everyone left by about nine thirty, and I felt like I had just had Thanksgiving dinner. I was stuffed and just wanted to go to sleep, but I studied a bit more.
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