What a week! Where to start? Let me
just start by saying that having good weather makes everything better! It is
easy to say that I spent a large majority of my weekend outside. On Saturday,
some friends and I ventured to San Jean de Luz, France. It is a small beach
town in the French Basque Country about an hour from San Sebastián. The ocean was blue with the sun shining
and people were out in droves. We spent a lot of time walking along the beach
while taking in the view. There isn’t much to do in the city but eat and shop,
so we made sure to take advantage of that!
Earlier
in the week, in my cooking class we ate two very unique dishes. One was pork
loin with milk. It sounds (and looks) gross, but it was delicious! The pork
loin gets cooked with sautéed onions and milk and then the milk and onions are
pureed to make a sauce. The milk tenderized the pork, so it was very moist. For
dessert, we had pears in wine. Obviously, there is nothing about this that
sounds unique, but the presentation was the key to this dessert being so different.
I
ventured out for another race this weekend, this one being 4 miles. It was
completely different from last week. There were no chicken wings and the people
seemed generally friendlier. I am debating whether it was the lack of space in
the street that prompted the chicken wings last week or the extreme number of
females in one place. I am thinking a mix of both! Either way, the race today
was different in that it prided itself on being sustainable. The water cups
were plastic and were thrown into bins to be reused again. I was a bit
skeptical on the cleanliness of the cups, but I do applaud their efforts. There
were also bins for recycling race bibs, safety pins and compost of fruit peels.
At the end of the race, they even skipped the packaged snacks and had fresh cut
fruit out for the runners. The races in the U.S. always give away bananas, but
I learned today that nothing tastes better after a run than a juicy pear!
I
also visited a science museum on the outskirts of San Sebastián. It was similar
to the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis in that it was interactive. It was a
series of stations and each station had a written description of the science
idea/principle and then there was an example. I was probably the only person
there above 10, but I loved every minute of it. There is just nothing cooler
than interactive science lessons. I am a true nerd at heart!
The sunset from the beach in San Sebastián!
That seems to be all for now!
Besos,
Erin
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