Now it´s the sixth of October 19 days away from home and something like 248 days left in Aranda...annnnnd no...it´s not a bad sign that i know this day thing exactly...cuz well if u figure it out once...well it´s not really too hard to figure out in ur head =P
I´ve gotta say...my lil bro has gotten REALLY ******* annoying in the past few minutes...he keeps touching me and being loud...again...i thank god every day for the invention of headphones...they are remarkable....
anyways...As I´ve probably mentioned before, Aranda is a small city of 35k+ inhabitents that is right between Burgos and Madrid...
The entertainment industry here is nonexistent...in the resdient´s own words, ¨Aranda is a strange place...we used to have arcades...they closed them for ´repairs´ we used to have numerous night clubs....they went away...we used to have SEVERAL movie theatres...now we have one...as the world moves forward it seems the only thing we can hold onto is our wine!¨
Apparently this isn´t just a situation in which it proved fiscally irresponsable to have these businesses present in the community....if not that the local gov´t drove them of by taking forever to grant them all the permits needed to open/build/run any sort of business...further evidence of this can be found in the fact that my host father had to wait for a new mayor to get elected before he could even start work on his new bar.
He waited YEARS just to get the stupid stamp that says he could REMODLE an UNUSED EYESORE of a place...I´m sorry..but I just don´t see that happening in Northbrook....oh and they stopped running trains through Aranda more than twice a day.
but people are PISSED about that one....protests in the streets, everyone´s really quite upset...but they don´t hold gov´t accountable....the gov´t will just continue to not listen to them...it´s sad really...but what can you do?
Despite this however...I must say even if they don´t know much about ehir politics...they sure as hell know their wine!
lol it´s one thing everyone above 25 here is proud of....and something EVERYONE knows a little about. And it´s at this point where I must thank Uncle Nick for his tuttelatge in what to do when testing wine (stir it up and then stick ur nose wayy in there to smell it, look at the color against a background of white, swish the wine around in ur mouth to fill ur pallet so u can really taste it...etc.) annnd i also have to thank Papa for giving me a nose large enough to get far enough into the wine glass to properly smell it =P...well I´d´ve looked notably less sophisticated at the wine tasting thing my host dad brought me to....=P
I will get those pics of the wine tasting up as soon as I can find where the heck they went on this computer...I apologize again for how incomplete this is...but I don´t really have time to write full essays =P
I miss you all...and please if anyone´s curious about anything...just e-mail me and it´ll at least give me somewhat of a prompt to refer to when writing....because well there are just so many things that are different here and worth mentioning that I don´t really know quite where to begin
Miss you all and hope to hear from you soon
-Andrés
Pic of the day....errr....post?
¨Me looking excited by the barrels of wine...it was really awesome tho...maybe I was just too astounded to react at that point? haha i duno¨
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