"This isn't normal, not at all. Its winter now, usually it is cold and rainy. no es normal. You will see, it will get cold and you'll have to buy winter clothes."
I have this conversation with different people almost everyday. Yesterday, apparently it rained, and everyone wore pants and were like see see, its winter! And I'm like, the sign still says it s 25 degrees! And are you sure it rained? Or were they just cleaning the streets again? Maybe it rained while I was in the bathroom or something because I definitely did not see it.
Hence I'm still holding out on buying the winter clothes. I'll believe this winter when I see it. The funniest day was November 1st. To be fair, it might have been a few degrees lower than usual but I came upstairs and everyone in my Spanish family were wearing pants. Then I went to school and my spanish teacher was as well. I totally missed the memo that winter started exactly on November 1st.
I'm really not complaining though, I dont mind still being able to go to the beach every weekend. For Halloween, however, the boys had a problem that we definitely never have in Canada. Their costumes were to warm. They couldn't wear their dracula capes! They went to a Halloween party but the North American culture hasn't taken over enough yet for them to be able to go trick or treating. We did carve a pumpkin. It came with instructions and a black sticker face just in case you weren't sure what a jack-o-lantern looked like. The boys were really confused though as to what exactly the pumpkin was for. They were convinced that we now had to go trick or treating and collect the candy in the pumpkin. It didn't matter how many times their mother and I tried to explain to them that we use a plastic pumpkin to collect the candy, or better yet pillow case, they were still convinced that the pumpkin needed candy. I finally did manage on Halloween night to show them how a candle goes inside the pumpkin. A candle is much less exciting than candy.
I was also invited to a Halloween party and it was actually really well done. The only things that gave away that we weren't in North America was the food and the music. The music being Spanish salsa and the food being barbecued meat, and olives and not a piece of candy in sight.
Honestly I think its kind of sad how our commercialized holidays are spreading their way around the globe. I dont really now how to explain why I don't like it, it's just a little scary.
David and Ivan.
Thanks for pointing out the two different clock times, do you get to choose in Spain what time you want it to?
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