I haven't eaten this much since the last Castanyada - Never

Now you saw how lame I'm to invent tough nuts to break. Can you even call this as a one? I bet not.

Yesterday we set the table for a huge meal. For me moreover impressive and fresh faces with pleasant,  disparate and comfortable personalities. In the end of the evening, the board was covered with empty glasses of crystals and bottles a bit of wine in the bottom, miniscule cuppas of short coffees, wrapping candy papers and skins from mandarins and chestnuts. The vocal chatting passed as soon as it has started. The full day of fascinating discussing muted to tiredness. More than that, children and I got some symptoms of flu.

This celebration was peculiar compared to what I have got used earlier but I felt accepted among the guests. I was placed to sit between my host mother and one Mexican man. I hold on a belief that we're placed with consideration. Articulately, during the evening people of course changed their places to model constructions for better interaction between them. Once a while I found somebody new sitting on the left or right side of me. Certainly, I was asked about Finland. Shockingly a surprising fact...  Topics about cultural differences, food, education, alcohol consuming, average wages and taxes. One guest - who I may hear more about and alike to meet in the future - had even visited Finland! I felt a little bereft while we discussed about Finnish nature (oh, the lakes in the east-side of Finnish maiden), smoked salmon and - surprisingly - the sauna. 

As a appetizer we were served with plates filled with tastes from three countries: Spain, Mexico and Finland. A little bit spicy jalapeños, nachos  and salsas. I had brought a smoked salmon  with small pieces of rye bread. This was gone swiftly and was hugely complimented. Along with the hosts, they used around three hours last evening in three different shops in which case one was specialized in meat. Slices of Serrano ham and full plates of salami. I was accompanied with the middle one of the siblings and with the father.  In the meanwhile of shopping I was with her carrying out my duty: improve her English skills.

  I got a little bit anxious when the children saw that I had a LSDR-camera because they immediately wanted to become users of it. This was the case with the two of the youngest. Everything went still well, even if we had to put the camera away once a while for a reason. Some pictures did really succeed and as an example is the last picture of chalice filled with Finnish candies. Those were served as a desert with the most important final afters: castanyas the chestnuts.

I cannot even recall all the food we ate. If I remember correct, they carried two oven tin trays and holy goat it had delicious looking leg cuts of goat. (Am I getting better with my figurative writing skills compared to the start.)

  Later - when the parties were over - everybody were a bit drained and wanted to clean the mess quickly and crawl under the blanked as soon as possible. I used my last bits for being for a little time with the middle one, we both laying on her bunk. Because of the language barrier, it can be somehow hard to communicate sometimes. Luckily, she is already 8-year-old and even if she doesn't understand, slowly can I try to explain using very very very simple words and sentences. One week has passed and now she understood when I said how quickly she had improved during my staying. And she said same thing to me but in my case about Castellón and Catalan. Hey, she said this in Catalan.