Caimari and Bike Trip

Hey everyone!

I went to this really cool festival in Caimari, one of the pueblos outside of Palma this last week. Caimari is really well-known for its olive oil, and they had the festival to show all of the products they had there. There were booths set up all over the place where you could taste different olives, olive oils, wines, and hierbas (a type of liquor that is typical in Mallorca). It was awesome! My favorite olives were these ones that were pickled in some spicy juices and stuffed with peppers! Wow they were delicious. We also went inside on of the factories where they had an old olive press and we got to see how the oil was made.

We also saw a prize winning sobrasada (Mallorcan blood sausage) that was enormous! I can not even imagine how many pigs it was made of... kinda gross. Although I'm not gonna lie... It doesn't taste all that bad!

But overall the trip was really fun. Helena's mom has a house in Caimari and she let us hang out there and meet some of the other family members. We really appreciated it.

The other day when I was at my gym I saw an advertisement for this bike trip called La Pedalada in which you could go on a tour of some of the older parts of Mallorca. We only had to pay 3 euros to rent a bike and we got a free T-shirt and some other goodies. It was super fun. We stopped with the group to take pictures toward the end, and in one of them we got a pretty good shot of the famous Cathedral here in Palma. It is soooooooo beautiful, and even more amazing inside.

As for the rest of my life right now... Things are great. I cannot believe that two whole months have gone by; the time has just gone too fast since I have gotten here. School is good. One of the student teachers and I are going to have tryouts for a Christmas performance of Grease soon! We are also having auditions to sing some Christmas songs in English in the middle of December. I really like the kids I work with as well as the teachers.

I'm starting to take Salsa lessons here too! Every Sunday there are free lessons at one of the bars along the water, and Sunday was my first time there. It was really fun, although I know I have a long way to go.. heehee.

Other news: I'm going to Berlin this weekend! One of my friends here wanted to go somewhere for her birthday and we found plane tickets for a total of 30 euros! I'm really looking forward to it and I will make sure to put pictures up when I get back!

Hope all is well with you! Love you all and miss you!