Today we got more work done. Stef said he had been down the last few days but now it was time to get more work done. So we organized the laundry room and I painted some doors downstairs. Lunch was very simple, salad in tortilla wraps, which Stef requested. I think Stef is getting tired of my “complicated cooking,” although I think I have been cooking pretty simply.
Anyway, after lunch I took a brief rest on my bed, because I was SO COLD, then went to the garden and dug up all the weeds again. It was not easy. The hoe rubbed a blister which popped and then a second blister formed afterward. But the garden is ready for planting tomorrow.
The Italian volunteer arrived around 6. Stef asked me at lunch if we were going to speak English or Spanish, and I said Spanish. My Spanish really hasn’t been getting better since Montse and Carlos left. (Carlos made it to Barcelona, btw.) Hopefully it will go back to improving.
I have only met the volunteer; Stef brought her out to the garden where I was working. We said, “Hola” and when I came in she was in her room. Stef heated rice with chili peppers for dinner and I had that damn stew. The volunteer didn’t come out until I was in my room, so I have no idea what she is eating. Hopefully the rest of the stew.
I’m not really sure what to cook tomorrow, or if I should. We haven’t had many pilgrims, and Montse is demanding Stef pay what he owes her. But we are in the middle of Holy week, which is actually a time you get pilgrims, and we haven’t been. And we need to be sure we have all the food we want tomorrow, because the stores will close and they won’t open again until Monday.
Travels and Adventures with Jane 