Now that you've received your praise for the day, let me tell you a little bit how the last few days have gone. I did end up going to Cabra on Saturday and explored around with one of the teachers that I work with, Antonio, and his children. The town is actually really nice and I got some great pics. We walked around for quite a while and Antonio explained a lot of the history to me about different parts of the town. I only stayed for a few hours because even after the first hour I started feeling horrible (my cold/cough hated me!) and I was exhausted and just overall unable to function.
I got back and just stayed in bed...minus the one trip to the store to buy some EXTREMELY necessary medicine to keep me from coughing up a lung. I did have to eventually leave my beloved bed to get ready to meet up with some friends. It was a friends birthday and I was going to introduce him to some of my Spanish friends so I kinda had to go. I was in and out within an hour, came back, got into pj's and went back to being a sloth, sitting in my bed and skyping Mike. Luckily for me the next day was Sunday! So I just stayed in bed....
Since then I've pretty much just been recovering and getting back to my normal schedule here. Classes just started back up on Monday so now I'm back to work! Over the break I added a few more side classes as well so now I have about 9 students of my own :) Its nice to stay productive...at least for someone like me. I've also gotten back into going to Pilates classes and will even be going to one in just a few min here.
I picked up some rosada (a white fish- possibly red hake?), squid, clams and some shrimp- all very fresh mind you. I was going to imitate the recipe I learned with my friend/spanish mom, Elena :), when she cooked it a few months back. Let me also say right now that I have NEVER in my life cooked seafood besides fish and shrimp...now I would have to behead and de-feet some shrimp as well as dismember some squid. The shrimp wasn't too bad considering shrimp are almost always cooked whole here (on the grill and what not) so you have to take off the head, feet and shell before eating them anyways.
The squid was another story. First- I've cut up squid before but never one WITH a head...and eyes. And the eyes were looking at me- so what did I do? Poked one. After proding at my food I had to start the...dissection. I, first, had to remove something similar to a spine that looked and felt exaclty like a flexible piece of plastic...
I even thought it was plastic at first and that the poor thing had eaten it. But alas, this was not a sign from the North Pacific Gyre reminding me of how plastic is destroying sealife (among other things) but instead just the spine. I realized this only AFTER working on the second squid. The after the spine was removed I had to basically squeeze out the head since it didn't just fall off (there were parts "stuck" on the inside of the body). I had to also cut off the top of his head, just like he was getting a buzz cut, to get off the tentacles. Then was the easy part, cut up the body into rings and add that (and the tentacles) into the soup. And that was the story of the squid(s) who became my dinner.The only other seafood I had to handle was the fish and the muscles- both of which both just thrown directly in the pot of soup, left to stew for a few min. In the end all was fine, the soup turned out great and none of the sea creatures came alive and tried to run away.
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