potpourri...

Back home(!), the adventure in Emerald land has come to an end, and travelling will most probably be limited to dreaming and planning for a little while now.  I look forward to visiting Ireland again (it would be so interesting to see those girls again in a little time). Travelling is addictive and I hope I can do more of it pronto (already thinking of "vacaciones" So much to see and learn...) 

Since I ran out of time, I'll try summarizing in pictures and few words (hopefully few mistakes too-yep, good luck to me:) the last week or so.

Sunday we had all of the goodbyes at church and then dinner with the Gibbons (I hope I come back to Waterford branch soon). On the way back home from church, Angela stopped at this cute tiny village that has a castle -de cuyo nombre no puedo acordarme...- with beautiful gardens. I thought the entrance was perfect for the place and the stories (apparently a white witch lives here). We met one of her sons, or so Angela said (I'd like to believe it). He opened a window and with crazy Einstein-like hair and told us: "it is clooosed." (it reminded me of Miracle Max in "The Princess Bride") But then he let us take pictures because "you see, she has come all the way from Spain..." :)

Karaoke on 

Friday was 

brilliant!

Even Siter 

Anna went. 

Our lunch 

buddies

were fabulous! 

They re-wrote

words for a

song and sang

that and 

Dancing

queen in those dresses!

Michelle is the one to blame. Only Michelle could. Everyone had to sing,

and right before leaving all the Spanish did, "Adiós, con el corazón." 

I had a great time and loved being with everyone. They've been and

are simply the best.

For a goodbye thank you treat and as poor students we are, 

we made 6 tortillas de patata for the staff. It was a fun morning. 

 

We had quite a few laughs trying to figure out amounts of potatoes, salt, oil, eggs we needed in the shops the day before... and then peeling, cutting, cooking and turning the tortillas. They didn't stick or burn and we didn't make any alarms go off.

It was a success!

Not one bit of tortilla was left and the recipe on the table desappeared too.