Showing posts with label Sevilla Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sevilla Spain. Show all posts

Friday, March 5, 2010

Real Life Absolutely Fabulous



It was yet another evening at the school's cafeteria called NABAR. Here you can usually find Tea and I: over eating some dry ass pasta, drinking coffee and/or an alcoholic beverage, because yes you can have a bloody mary right before class.

So like usual were sitting there having an intellectual conversation, catching up on the latest news, since we have a pre paid/pay as you go phone out here it is impossible to have actual conversations on the phone, so sitting for coffee takes place instead.

So were talking about art, politics, music, travel, fashion week, pink nail polish, parties, our future, men, etc and watching Absolutely Fabulous all at the same time, sometimes even in the same sentence, when during this Ab Fab episode there is a scene where Eddy and Patsy are on an airplane destroying it via drinking tons of alcohol from the little bottles they give away on airplanes as there going to France.

I go on and say, "wow Tea, one day
we will be on a plane together drinking little bottles of wine, laughing out loud trying to join the mile high club and old ladies rolling their eyes at us..."
Then Tea replies... "well uh, im actually going to Madrid to visit a friend, i think she said its cool to bring someone...YOU SHOULD COME!"

"Madrid?" i ask myself... omg hell yea! so i quickly get online and search for flights! im not even kidding, 10 minutes later i had purchased a flight to Madrid!!!
I love doing things on the spontaneous tip... they always turn out more exciting, and you know me, i LIVE for excitement.

As soon as my purchase went through and I received my confirmation email...

...out of nowhere, like from the sky or something, traditional flamenco music began to play and i jumped on top of a table and danced a solo inspired by the one and only bad ass Carmen Amaya. It looked a lot like this:


;)

And that's how, ladies and gentlemen, the story of Madrid begins....

Friday, December 11, 2009

La Matanza

La Matanza, literally translates to = The Killing... this basically means a big feast where an animal is killed then ate and cooked in many many different ways, at least in this case. It felt like i was at a wedding or somebody's family reunion... lots of folks and lots of food.
Sooo, they killed a pig then took a piece of it to a specialist who lets them know its all good to eat it which sounds like a good idea cus i heard pig meat can really fu*k people up if its not right...
And here i am, lil ol non-red meat eater me, being an outcast looking like im hella picky... but its like yo, i havent ate red meat in about 6 years and it feels good!
They were nice and cooked some sea food on the side for me =)
But im not gonna front on you... i had a conversation with myself....
self 2 self:
"damn girl, you know u in Europe where the main food is pork and you knew this before coming. remember you even told yourself you would try it again just to try it and not feel bad about it?"


self 2 self:
"yea, i did say that..."


self 2 self:
"well its not like i dont eat red meat for religious or political reasons, its simply a health choice ive made.... hmmm.... well if im going to ever try pork again it might as well be here where i know where its coming from. Besides that, im in Spain and you know they're gonna make some slammin' dishes..."


self 2 self:
"but what about the stomach ache after because your body is not used to digesting this anymore!?"

self 2 self:
"damn.... thats true. well i'll just have a small bite then pick it out to eat the rest..."


and thats what i did ladies and gentlemen... i ate a piece of pork! i couldn't even believe it. i dont regret it. it tasted good even for a non pork eating person (i cant even say that anymore). The texture drove me crazy though so I didnt have too much. I dont know if i will start eating it again, doubt it. But I HAD to try it.
Anyhow... i HAD to take pics of course... here are some, i had to pick these out of like 400....


CHICHARON^^
haha, ryding durty..lol
haha, we were feeling ourselves obiously
Jorge killin' it on the Cajon!
The Mamma busting out with the flamenco!!! Yo this was such an experience. All of a sudden someone started playing the cajon and they started singing typical flamenco songs and dancing. They had a cypher going on and everything....
COJONES FLAMENCOSSSSSS

food food more foodPracticing my flamenco moves!!! heheh


Of course... they wanted us to dance in the "cypher" and u know we HAD to!!!
LA NEGRITA rummmm... i wish i could bring this back with me and take some back to my madrina Carol
Las Cubatas (the drank)
Comedy Central all daaay
It got cold outside but the party didnt stop so they brought it inside
In there somewhere was this man that i think is tryna get his son to marry a latina girl, haha. He kept talking about how much he loves our culture and language, and i was like yea uhhh, your ancestor colonized my ancestors remember? anyways, he said his son goes to San Francisco a lot and i was like yea yea uh huh- can i get some wine please? Next thing you know he hands me his phone so i can talk to his son, who is a pilot btw! haha... i thougth it was so random and then he kept taking photos when i wasnt looking, then i got unconfortable.... haha...
flamenco rock-

ok i forgot the name of this but lemme just say, this ish was ridiculously deliciousssss
did i mention more food?
red spanish wine
our last nite
yo girl.... f a d e d

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