Market

Today for Spanish class we went to the market in Rio Piedras. It was really cool. They had a ton of fresh fruits and vegetables. They also had meat stands. Some of the weirder things were dried out salty looking fish with the skin still on. I wasn't curious enough to buy one. They also had these things that they call botánicas. They sold insence and all sort of herbs (no, not the illegal kind). Puerto Ricans are all into herbal remedies for everything.

I just bought some cilantro, an avacado (aguacate in español) and some tarmarindos. The picture is of tamarindos. They have a shell on them and the inside is kind of sticky. They have the consistency of apricots with the little seeds inside. They are both sweet and better at the same time. I like them, but they are a lot of work to eat.

Apparently I don't just attract creepers in the states either. I had a man who had to be mentally ill following me around for quite a while. It was pretty bad. Roble let me pretend he was my boyfriend and even told the guy to leave me alone. It was one of the first times in PR that I have truly been creeped out. He was like a shadow and he would get right up into my personal space every time I stopped. Even when I was walking arm in arm with Roble. We were window shopping at a shoe store and he grabbed a shoe off the rack and tried to put it on my foot. My friends thought it was hilarious at first, but eventually they were all just creeped out too. I'm not sure how we lost him, but I'm glad we did because he just kept giving me this direct stare-down that was making the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Countdown til Elizabeth gets here: 4 days!!