Somos el 99%!

On the 15th of October (sorry it's so late!) I went to a protest in Spain and it was my first protest ever.  They called themselves 15-M because their first protest, which was only in Spain, was on the 15th of May.  They're also known as the "indignados" the indignants.  So a week or so ago, on 15-O, they did another protest except that this one was joined by more than 650 cities worldwide.  They protested the corruption and misallocation of funds today.  They want a democracy that is more focused on the citizens and less on the businesses.
For me, it was awesome to be there because I've been reading posts on facebook and hearing from my friends that there are protests going on in the states as well and that there is a lot of discontent with the 1%.  I'm sure you've heard of Occupy Wallstreet. To see so many people gathered in Murcia, walking peacefully to a plaza and  then sitting and listening and supporting and making their voices heard was absolutely fantastic for me.  To feel like just because I wasn't at home didn't mean that I had to sacrifice my voice.

Here are some of the things that they said or had written:

Somos el 99%  ---   We are the 99%!
Que no, que no, que no nos representan!  ---  That no, that no, that they don't represent us!
Luego diréis que somos 5 o 6!  ---  Later y'all will say that we were only 5 or 6!
La salud no es un negocio, es un derecho!  ---  The health isn't a business, it's a right!

And....

This isn't the original, I'm so sorry, I'll probably have a camera in November....

Organize yourself!  And be inspired by the 500,000 in Madrid....

Chirimoya

(not my photo, sorry, still without a camera)

This is a Chirimoya.  I had my first one last night.  For those of you who know me, you know that I love food.  I mean I love food.  I also like to try new things.  I'm usually a little cautious, but very curious.  When it comes to tropical fruit, most of the time I'm not all that impressed.  I'm not sure why, I guess I just prefer the fruit that I'm accustomed to.  But this, this is amazing.  It's very soft and squishy and kind of has a flavor that hints of kiwi without so much tartness.  I cut it in half and dug out all the seeds with my spoon before really digging in.  It was fantastic.

Déjame en paz!

It's possible that you've heard me say this expression before.  I actually learned it in my first day of college Spanish.  One of the students didn't know the answer to the question and he told the teacher "leave me alone."  She immediately responded with, "Déjame en paz!" and said that if you were going to say it, you'd better say it in Spanish.

I've actually found myself extremely busy this week, what with trying to get settled into my apartment and learning the bus system and getting familiar enough with the town to get around without my map and so on and so on.  All of these extra chores on top of the fact that I've received so much correspondence and have obligated myself to so much return correspondence that I'm kind of drowning in it.  I haven't even written here because of it.  It makes me wonder how all of you other bloggers find the time.

So I'm here to tell you, that I love you all, that I'm definitely thinking about you and talking about you to my new friends, but that I'm just not ready nor do I really have the time to do more than read my email.  I think I might even start avoiding facebook to a degree.  I have a million things that I want to talk about on this blog, but instead I feel like I'm just responding to emails and giving tidbits to individual people and then everyone else misses out on those things.

So please don't be offended, but I would need a clone to sit at home all day and respond to emails.  Thanks for thinking of me, and hopefully I'll do another post quite soon, now that I'm liberating myself from the emails. :P