Comida

The food here is amazing!  There's always so much to eat though I never know what to do with all of it.  My cousin Christy taught me a phrase of what to say when I like the food but there's too much for me to it.  It's definitely come in handy for me.  We eat at 8:30 am, 2:30 pm, and 9:30 pm.  When we eat our meal I always feel so full after and never think that I can eat anything again.  Then around 4 hours later I am really hungry again.  My stomach hasn't adjusted to eating every 6 hours with huge meals instead of every 1-2 hours with tiny meals.  The other night for supper I ate 2 pieces of bread with cheese dip, two pieces of pizza, a cheeseburger, potato chips, and a thing of yogurt.  My exact quote to my mom was "WHO CAN EAT THAT MUCH FOOD!?!  Well apparently I can!"  I still can't believe I can eat that much but I think it's because I walk so much that I burn off all the calories.  It takes me about a 30 minute walk to get to anywhere I want to go so I do about 2-3 hours of walking everyday.  For breakfast everyday I usually eat cereal with chocolate powder on it so that way it makes chocolate milk.  I didn't think it would be pretty good at first but I actually love it.  I also have a hot chocolate every morning too.  Then with lunch I always have a fruit and at supper I always have yogurt.  We eat lots of soup, bread, and vegetables.  I think we've had some sort of potato at every meal.  I also like a lot of the food that she gives me.  Sometimes she gives me american type food like a cheeseburger or a hot ham and cheese but they're so good.  The cheese is way better here because it's not as gooey and more stringy which I love.  I was telling my mom that she should've sent me to a foreign country a long time ago so that way I could have broken my bad habit of being a picky eater.  When I come home I will definitely not be eating the same way.  Although I do miss my junk food a lot.  It's weird going from eating junk food every day to healthy food everyday.  Though they do have 3 or 4 bakeries on every single block.  So on my 30 minute walk to school I pass by so many bakeries.  Not going to lie i've definitely stopped in them quite a few times but I tell myself I need to get my sweet tooth fix in and it only costs about one euro.  These pastry shops will definitely be the death of my money besides all of the shopping.  A place that me and my friends have gone to a couple times is Cafe Futbol.  They have really good desserts there and the people are really nice. 

I couldn't resist a classic blueberry muffin

                                       
                                       A bunch of us at Cafe Futbol we had churros con chocolate
                                                   which are like funnel cakes. they were so good!

                                                        this is what the ice cream looks like

I didn't take any pictures of what my host mom makes because I think she would think i'm weird for doing that.  But you just have to trust me that it looks like classic Spanish dishes and they are very good.