Jamon Flavored Chips

Every country seems to have their own distinct flavors of chips, and here the one i've found is Jamon flavored chips. It just goes to show you that Jamon isn't a food group, it's merely something of it's own sort. To illustrate what i'm confusing trying to express; a story told to us upon coming here, or one of my friends told me i forget to be honest, is that many times vegetarians say they dont eat any form of meat, and then the next meal they still get jamon. when they ask why they gave them ham, they say well jamon most certainly is not just a meat, it's just ham, you can't confuse it with meat like beef. Anyway, if you don't like ham, Spain (or at least Andalucia) is not the place for you, because man it's everywhere. Jewish people and vegetarians that I know are all starting to give in i'd imagine due to their large appetite from walking all day.

In other news, classes have started in earnest now. We're well into our second days of classes, and I already had to give a presentation today on music piracy... for those who know me the word had in that sentence is seeming oxymoronic. Most people can't get me shut up about the subject. Otherwise classes have gone well, for the most part they seem to realize we're here to have class, but also to be out and about. Thus it seems that most of our classes will be taking place in class, and only small light work outside of class, minus a few bigger things. In the end, it results in a nice medium. The classes im taking for those who may be interested focus on the 3 cultures of spain, (which is funny cause im also in an interest group called the four cultures of spain... im gonna know these cultures damn well).. it seems good although so far the prof has been in the hospital so we're still waiting to start that one. Then im taking spanish for business students, which seems to be my most intense class, but after today seems more light-hearted than i thought and it will prove extremely useful. Plus we're spending all our times on numbers and figures and that if anything seems to be the biggest red flag we're not spanish speakers... how many english speaking friends do u have that cant throw down 1/4 or 23.34% when they're reading aloud. Also im taking an econ history of modern spain class, which actually i think may be one of my most fun and enjoyable classes, even after i initially planned on dropping it immediately. finally the last class is Cervantes y Quijote. Although i swore to myself i'd never read it, im glad im going too although it will be quite a good read to say the least. One of the longest i've ever read, and its in old shakespeare-like spanish, fun times.

This weekend i'm going to Portugal, which should be a fun filled experience and maybe a couple hundred photos at the rate we're all going. We're taking the night bus to avoid having to hostel it up, but to maximize our time in Portugal. I'll fill you in after I get back from there how it goes.

Life is going well here in general. Everyone seems to be relatively happy, some people are surprisingly caught up on needing to meet college requirements, or maximize their GPAs, which is sensible, but reminds me how sea-lo-que-sea (what will be, will be) my personality is. Hope everyone's doing well, feel free to comment here if you want or if you use Facebook i'm reachable there too. It's nice being able to update so many people without having to actually send thousands of emails.

I'd love to skype anyone, although i'm six hours ahead and I don't spend much time in my house. Nonetheless if you want to add me go ahead and we'll chat it up if we ever get the right times settled.


Hope all is well, hope everyone has a happy valentine's day if i don't right before then, and otherwise i gotta go get things done!