Paella!

Paella for dinner tonight, which means its going to be a good night. Normally paella, a rice dish very common in Spain, is filled with mariscos (shellfish)...most of which have their shells and EYES. Needless to say, our senora makes the safe version: chicken, shrimp (without shell/eyes/antennas) and veggies. A perfect end to a perfect day.

I feel so disconnected from American pop culture lately, aside from the TV shows I catch on sketchy websites. For some reason most of the networks wont broadcast their shows overseas and Im forced to Google search my way to the latest Gossip Girl episode. I only hear things from word of mouth here for example: Kanye at the VMAs. I didnt even know that the VMAs were happening! And Patrick Swayze dying?! Its been nice to not be bombarded by information at every second of every day. My only daily dose of information (aside from Facebook, which I religiously stalk) is when me and Kerry watch spanish television while we eat dinner. We usually catch Pasapalabra, a game show that our senora loves, or the noticias (news). Its also been a crazy transition from having a cell phone in America to a pay-as-you-go phone here. Every text costs 0.15 euro and so we have to pick and choose what is worth texting. I have now realized that most of what I text is pointless. AND now that texting costs so much, I pay attention in class! A win-win situation.