Beauteous, no?
Yesterday Gianna & I took a train to a nearby town that was having a Euskal Jaiak--Basque Festival. The ride was probably 30 minutes, and luckily we got on the earliest stop because at each stop people kept piling on to go to the festival. We were surrounded by a bunch of young teenage boys talking about who-knows-what. What we saw of the festival was tons of people dressed in traditional Basque garb, chatting and having a good time. At the end we did see 2 people do traditional Basque dancing which includes a lot of jumps and kicks. I don't have any pics, but Gianna took some which will be available shortly.
Also this week I learned how to eat shrimp. I don't like shrimp in America, but here it is served with the head and all. :s Mis padres demonstrated how to eat it, apparently when you take off the head you suck out the juices (luckily they said I didn't have to haha). Not so bad! And last night I had some sort of seacreature meat (maybe it was octopus after all) in ink. It definitely did not look appetizing since it was covered in black muck. She said people from outside dislike it, but all the locals adore it. Ah and yesterday was also sort of reminiscent of home: my "aunt" who is staying with us went to buy us all ice cream from the local heladería (ice cream shop). My madre, tía, and I sat in the kitchen enjoying ice cream. :)
Welp, that's all for now. Agur!
