El Día de San Patricio y Más

Sorry for the double whiny posts yesterday...but, I felt (and still feel) very mistreated by these airlines.  Fortunately, when Mary and I called today to talk to Iberia about changing our flight so that it wouldn't have an overnight layover, they very nicely changed our flight without a fee.  When I called, I asked from someone who speaks English, and we got through it haha.  We haven't called about the other flight with Vueling from Oviedo to Paris, but we might.  I got an email response today to my complaint I sent yesterday saying we could see if they have different flights, it's just a lot more expensive to call them than Iberia - like, twice as much.

Anyways, just wanted to keep everyone updated and even though I was freaking out and really, really upset yesterday, I'm better today.

Today is our first day of "X Jornadas de Cultura y Sociedad" (Society and Culture X-Games).  Super corny, we are all well aware.  I'm taking dance and photo-journalism.  I couldn't do normal photo and photo-journalism, so I did dance instead haha.  My schedule is completely messed up this week, I have dance in the mornings and photography at 5pm, but we don't have normal classes!  That's not to say that I don't still have a ton of work to do for the end of this week/beginning of next week...

How'd you like those double-negatives?  Gotta love that Spanish grammar...

This past weekend we went to Gijón for a city tour on Saturday.  I didn't take a single picture of the city.  You should be SHOCKED.  It was pouring and I didn't feel like wrestling with my camera and my paraguas in the rain for grey, wet pictures.  I'll just go back when it finally haga bueno en Gijón.  We did have an amazing 3-course meal that I took pictures of :D.  The pictures below are of the food that I actually ate:

Ensalada

Croquetas - Fried balls of gooey potatoes with a pinch of jamón

Paella

Cake called "Muerte por Chocolate" (Death by Chocolate)

Death by chocolate.  Reminds me of something... CAKE DEATH (a very serious problem we need to make people aware of).

That night was St. Patrick's Day, so we went to one of the Irish pubs in Oviedo that we've been to a couple of times.  It was pretty fun.  The music was fantastic and reminded me of contra dancing hehe.  They also had live music once it got later.  We started our evening pretty early because we knew the bar was going to be pretty packed, but we got a table and played cards - it was a good evening.

Raspberry Belgian Beer - Tasted like fizzy fruit juice

You had to drink 2 pints of Guinness for the hat...luckily someone didn't want theirs :D

My tiny half-pint of Guinness

Live Music :D

Sunday I didn't do anything, except freak out about flights.  The weather here has been very New England-y, in the sense that it could be brightly sunny (like it is right now) for 20 minutes, but then it pours for an hour.  Reminds me of home haha.  That's what happened on Saturday - we thought it was going to be nice out and then it poured, and it's been doing that ever since.

Anyways, I'm off to photography in a bit.  This weekend I'm going to León with my group from Umass and then the weekend after I leave for Paris! I'm still excited, though very disappointed that we're going to be missing so much time in what people say is the most beautiful city in Europe...

¡Hasta Luego!