Lunch with Marimar!

I met up with Marimar today, it was so good to see a familiar face and to compare impressions of her home town that she is seeing with somewhat fresh eyes after more than a year in Reno. We ran into someone else she knows from Reno -- who worked at Starbucks in the student union and is a student in the USAC program along with me.

 

I´ve been meeting with an "intercambio" (conversation partner), someone of my generation (approximately) on the faculty in the university, whose English is much better than my Spanish ... she´s polishing her English for a vacation in Scotland next week, while I´m still trying to learn a little more survival vocabulary (not much hope for complete sentences). She has helped me learn a few new things about being in San Sebastian. Ellen arrives tomorrow! We´re signed up for a Saturday excursion to the French Basque coastal towns Biarritz and Bayonne.

 

Nobody who lives here believes that we can hear a donkey in the mornings in our apartment, but it is true -- and we saw it up on the hill above Gros (Mt. Ullia).