Lunch time!

I have a break now between classes, so I thought I'd update my little bloggy blog.

So, where should I start?

I guess I'll start with last night.  After watching a wonderful episode of Gilmore Girls season 6 with Spanish subtitles, Cata and I decided that we wanted to do something fun!  The day before we played Littlest Pet Shop.  The day before that we played Barbies.  And the day before that we played Monopoly, so we wanted to do something different!  Mix it up a bit.  I was kind of in the mood for chocolate (heck!  I'm always in the mood for chocolate), so Cata and I decided to walk to the nearby supermercado to buy supplies for chocolate chip cookies!  (Cata had never tried homemade chocolate chip cookies).  It was interesting looking for the ingredients at the store.  There were no chocolate chips (kind of an essential ingredient), the baking soda was different than the US, and we had to search high and low for brown sugar.  We ended up buy a big block of milk chocolate and cutting it up into little cubes.

Cata was SO excited to make cookies.  When we got home, we threw our cookie supplies down in the kitchen, flipped on some Gloria Estefan (Christmas edition...), and started whipping up las galletas!  It was so fun!  We danced...we baked...we sang...we ate cookie dough.  It was the perfect evening!  And I have to admit, I was pretty proud of myself because I made the cookies without a recipe.  I guess that's not to impressive since I bake chocolate chip cookies back at home almost once a month...

Our cookies turned out wonderful with only a few modifications to the recipe.  Oh.  I forgot to say that I also bought some PEANUT BUTTER at the store because Cata had never tried peanut butter before.  I also bought some low sugar strawberry jelly and American-style wheat bread.  I made Cata and me an American dinner...peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, banana with peanut butter, and chocolate chip cookies for dessert!  (Basically a kid's lunch in the US).  She really like everything, but she said that all the sugar made her head hurt (this coming from a little girl who eats dulces every day...).

That's all the time I have for now.  I'm headed to lunch in the fancy, exclusive teachers' lunch room.  ;)

Will write more later...