Well, it's 6am and I'm getting and early start on my favorite day of the year...FAT TUESDAY/MARDI GRAS/GORDO MARTES. In whatever language, you get the idea...the one day of the year you God lets you stuff your face without feeling bad about it. Clearly this is my favorite day of the year to be a Catholic!
I already made plans to have a few girls over for "make your own pizza night". (They learned I can't realllly cook so they've been good to me on having me over for meals lately so I owe them a few) Seeing as today is Super Tuesday AND Fat Tuesday, we will be celebrating our American greatness by wearing sweatshirts, jeans, tennis shoes, and stuffing our faces all day long...to conclude our day, we will head to the polls at midnight here in Madrid to cast our votes in the primary election from abroad. Can you imagine anything more American than this day? I sure can't :)
The elections here are perhaps an even bigger deal than in the states and the candidates are lovingly refered to as "el negrito" y "la mujer" (the black and the woman) FYI- "el negrito" literally means 'the little black' and is also the word the super market uses to sell brownies....PC? I THINK NOT! haha. I giggle everytime I go by that aisle, almost as much as I giggle at the Americans who refer to blacks in Spain as "African-Americans". I'm sure somewhere there is a happy medium regarding PC but I've yet to find it! Either way...I can't believe that by my second presidential election I'm able to vote for a black man or woman....wow!!!
Hmm, not too much new besides that. Oh, I did watch the Spanish "Oscars" called the Goyas with my roomies. Well, I started to until I realized that there are really only like 2 Spanish movies made each year so it's just the same two movies winning OVER and OVER and OVER so I excused myself from that little bonding activity.
So, that is all...have a good, eat lots, and GET OUT AND VOTE!
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