Hello!
I
realised that I should probably start these blogs with some sort of a
greeting, since not all of you will have followed this blog from the
start. I think that the best thing we learned today had to be the
cultural aspect that when the Catalans don't know what to say, they talk
about shit. Literally. When it comes around to Christmas time here, the
children are given logs in school, which they paint and give a face to.
They then take these logs home to "feed" them oranges. After a while,
these logs are getting fatter and the night before Christmas, Christmas
eve, the logs are covered with cloths and the children gather round
their log to sing a song and hit it with something...then they uncover
the log and they receive presents. This log is called Cago Téo in
Catalan and the English translation is a "shitting log", which was quite
funny for us to learn today. There are some strange traditions here in
Catalonia.
Apart from this, I'm ashamed to say that Conny, Tom and I didn't make
the most of this lesson because it was so hot and boring in that big
room. I think that we probably still came away with some good
information, but productive things like this, happened instead.
We
learned quite a lot of Catalan today in the four hour lesson, still
covering the basics ranging from months to time. Time is a difficult
concept in Catalan because like the Germans they prefer to look ahead to
the next hour when talking about time. So it would be as if we were to
say it's a quarter of one, and that would be quarter past 12 and so on.
Very interesting but a little difficult to grasp really.
We
went for another really long walk today after lessons, but this time to
the other side of Girona, past the old town and even venturing into the
next area. And also realised when we got to our destination that the
shop didn't really have what we were looking for. We had seen a
Carrefour on the way there though, and since I know that in France they
have practically everything in them, I suggested we go in to see if
there were any bikes, and it turns out there were. Hoorah for
Carrefour!
Tomorrow we have more Catalan classes and hopefully less walking to do!
Ciao :) x
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