How is Spain?
Nov 29th, 2013 by willmarks
Torre de Collserola, Barcelona
We are enjoying our time here, exploring the culture and history of Barcelona, with long tasty lunches, a slow pace of life in general, exciting and inexpensive travel around Spain and Europe, a fresh and frustrating language that we are trying to conquer (do they speak more quickly than we do?), and new friends from all over the world. The experience has been amazing, albeit with challenges, including the language barrier. But it is not all about us, the adults, is it? Many have asked if the children are enjoying it. Here we go…
What Spanish food do you like?
- Maggie: artichokes (we have been preparing them the same way we saw them cooked in “La Boqueria” off La Rambla, quartered and sautéed in boiling olive oil with garlic and herbs de Provence)
- Ella: vegetable paella, chorizo, artichokes
- Max: jamon iberico, cheese
Tell me about school in Barcelona.
- Maggie: It is very easy. Most people are from Spain, some are from the U.S. and other countries. My friends are from the U.S., Spain, India, Holland, and Germany.
- Ella: School is easy, but I like having 45 minutes of Spanish every day and being part of the harder math group.
- Max: It is really easy but I like my world history class, our school futbol tournaments, bringing my own lunch every day, and riding my scooter home. I wish we didn’t have to take the metro to school every day.
What do you like about Barcelona?
- Maggie: I like that I have a lot of friends. The food is really good, and I like practicing speaking Spanish. The flamenco show was great but it was a little loud.
- Ella: I have friends here from all over the world, including the U.S., Europe, Russia, and Asia, and I like that they live close by us in Barcelona. The sidewalk tile designs in Barcelona are really interesting and the beach is fun. I like playing on a futbol team with Spanish girls, and I like the gelato.
- Max: I like going to Barça games, living next to Turo Park, riding my scooter, and learning the Spanish language.
What do you miss?
- Maggie: I miss all of my friends and our house because now we live in an apartment. It is hard to communicate here sometimes.
- Ella: I miss my friends, my school, having a car, and our house.
- Max: I miss my friends, having a car, our yard and our ping pong table.
Inside the Torre de Collserola
This is a great post, and I love seeing each of their different perspectives on what they enjoy and miss. I cannot wait to try these fried artichokes, and wonder if Lenny will like them as he considers them the wasted vegetable.
it is good to see that M & M have not lost their sense of American dress!!
Tell Max that Uncle Robert is buying him a ping pong table in Miami for when he goes to visit him there 🙂
miss you all. xoxo
He doesn’t believe it!