Things you didn't know about Spain..

Since I first arrived I've seen some pretty weird things. First of all, what's with the JAMÓN obsession!?

If you don't know what jamón is I will explain.. Jamón, (pronounced haMON) is basically dried pig legs. The longer they hang to dry, the better the jamón. I personally think it has quite a strong flavour, I can't really describe it, it's kinda the spanish version of proscuitto. But I don't like it! 

Anyways, so the pig legs basically just HANG in the stores where they sell jamón, in neat rows and just all over the place. There is even a Museo del Jamón!! Jesus..

So the past few days, looking in the supermarkets etc, I saw that they basically have EVERYTHING jamón flavoured. LOOK! PRINGLES! I think that's funny :D

This is the jamón hanging from the ceiling!!!! Oh the horror.

Another thing is.. coronas! They are called Coronitas! Why, you ask? Because it's Spain! Hahaha, everything as we know it will have a different name or design here. 

The next thing is not strange and I'm not complaining AT ALL. But oh my god, these mojitos we had last weekend are the size of my head! Seriously. You can get them at this tapas bar called El Tigre for 6 euros. That's a pretty sick deal. The bar itself is very spanish. First of all it's PACKED with people and everyone's standing up! I thought that was so strange, and then the little asian waiter had to go through this crowd to get peoples orders. That was pretty funny.

The next thing... Wine in a box! And not just any box, a juice carton! Haha, for 54 cents that's pretty awesome. It didn't taste as bad as I'd expected actually, so that will come in handy, I'm sure ;)

The last thing... NUNS! They are seriously everywhere, I think that's pretty weird. And they're always walking in small groups and sending everyone evil looks. Blah, that's not really my thing..

Wow okay, that was alot of info at once. I'll go face the screaming kids now, god this night should be fun. And tommorrow there's a slumber party.. right next to my room! I don't think I'll be going home.

xoxo

Sarita