Reflections and/or comments

In Spain it is abnormal to eat raw spinach. Thus, it is never used to make happy green salads and it took quite a bit of convincing for my roommate to believe that those were in fact spinach leaves that I was eating mixed with tuna, corn, tomato, cucumber, sesame seeds, and dressing. This same roommate reads The Onion to keep up to date on American news and culture.

Italian is a fun language, though rather confusing at times.

Have I mentioned my grand plan for peanut butter in Europe? I am slowly convincing all the Europeans I can that peanut butter is a wonderful product. The best way to start this is with sweets, specifically Reeses-like chocolate covered peanut butter balls, hopefully eventually getting to the point where they will enjoy it in its most natural state, with jelly on two slices of bread, but that isn't as important. The important part is that they start consuming it at a higher rate and sharing with their friends. Then demand will increase, production will increase and prices will be forced down! Then if I ever come back to Europe I'll be able to afford to buy it more often. :-) This comes up today because I gave a presentation in my Spanish for Foreigners class on the subject and posted on the class's blog. They all enjoyed the chocolate covered peanut butter balls and many want the recipe...

Don Juan is a jerk. I read Don Juan Tenorio by Zorilla for one of my classes. It was a fun read, but I just want to say that he really is quite a jerk.

I'm slowly working through Don Quijote... He's not quite a jerk, though sometimes he can be. Mainly he's just a very odd man.

It's been fun reading a lot in Spanish lately. I've finished at least six books (all in Spanish) during my time here, two of which during the last two weeks.

Speaking of reading...I should go study.