Aaaww… a refreshing glass of Sidra. Throughout our travels and adventures it is not uncommon to “try something new”. Pouring and drinking Sidra falls into this category. The art of this culinary activity begins first with pouring the Sidra from two arms length high to “break it up” and give it some fizz, then after quickly gulping 2/3 of the 1/2 full glass, one must chuck the rest of the Sidra on the ground, be it inside or outside. You will soon see this in action…
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I fell asleep that night enveloped in thoughts of the next day. Every year at ECA we would go to a beautiful forest which had a river that would practically be frozen solid if the water didn’t move so fast. We would all jump in, and then jump out of it, barely able to walk for the cold. I dreamed of the river, the gorgeous river, and all the people shouting and jumping in.
The next day we arrived at school, I got in the Dehons car, and we were off to Pedriza! When we got there, a huge line greeted us. Me and my friends got out and walked around a bit and ate chips while waiting to get in. Finally we got in, and, after finding a parking place, walked along the river. The magnificent trees surrounded us as we made our way on the trodden dirt path
When we found a swimming hole, the water looked up and dared me to jump into it. I jumped. The water crashed over my head and quickly enveloped my body in a swirling confusion of white and blue. I dared to open my eyes, and in that brief fantastic moment, I saw a little family of fish suddenly scurry out from under me. The moss covered rocks shined green under the swirling water. Then the moment ended, and the lack of air forced me to rise.
Hurriedly I got out and did it again and again, Intel the cold forced me to get out. Rapping into the inviting warmth of a soft towel, my shivering gradually left me. After that adventure I climbed on the rocks in the woods, playing amusing games like tag and hide-and-seek. Slowly we made our way back to the river, and when we arrived, we found everyone picnicking on all sorts of good food.
An hour later some other people arrived, and they hopped in the frigid river. I got on top of the small water fall were some people were lying on some dry rocks in the middle of the river. Excited, I climbed around a bit, exploring. Then I slipped. Continue reading ‘blood and stitches’
It started out as a normal day…wake up….brush teeth… eat yumynis…home school………when suddenly, I went to the smallish store to buy some food, and the lady who checks stuff out gave me a map that had all the best hikes around Asturias! But still…I thought it was a normal day, and it was. (If you have a spectacular day every day, then you count spectacular as normal and normal as spectacular)
I went home and showed my mom the map and I told her that the lady at the counter had especially suggested that we go up the Pina. I asked dad if we could go on a walk to Pinos, and he stood up… and off we go! 15 minutes later we were trudging up the steep trail. Continue reading ‘Hiking in “Pinos”’
My trek began as I searched for a deserted town that was said to be up on the hill behind our apartment in Collanzo, but afterwards I figured out that I was really on the wrong mountain all the time. I took my bike and rode until I met the bottom of the hill, then I pushed my bike back up. When I was half way up, some Spaniard boys my age asked if I wanted to play soccer, “Qiueres jugar futbol con nosotros?”. I said yes. Continue reading ‘My Asturian Journey’
I went to the eye doctor on June 30 because I had lost my peripheral vision an hour before for about 10 minutes. My dad read about in on the internet and he thought it might be a sign of childhood glaucoma. We had a specific eye doctor we were going to go to at first, but that eye doctor didn’t have the right machine to check for peripheral vision, so we walked around. After walking around for a while we came to a place that seemed to have the right machine to check for glaucoma, but it was all shut down, since it was close to 8 pm and he wanted to get home, he checked real quick to make sure I wasn’t in any kind of serious danger, then he said to come back tomorrow so he could test me on the machine.
The next day me, my dad, and my mom all went to the eye doctor. He first checked me in case I needed glasses, and told me to look at that chart that had all the letters on it. Then he said,”not that one, The OTHER one” so I read the other one, and he said I didn’t need glasses, what a surprise!
Then came the machine… Continue reading ‘The Eye Doctor’