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  • Saturday, October 01, 2005

    First Party

    Friday night we had our first dinner party in Sant Cugat. We invited 3 other couples that we had met at the kids school. One couple had moved here from Madrid over the summer. Another couple had lived for 5 years in Connecticut after the husband graduated from Tuck(?) (Dartmouth's business school). The husband of the third couple had lived in LA for a while. It isn't exactly a prerequisite, but speaking English makes it much more likely you get invited to one of our parties.

    We were told that it was fairly unusual to have several people over and that usually a group this big would meet at a restaurant. About 45 minutes before everyone arrived, we realized that we didn't have enough silverware or place settings so I went zipping out to the local mall. There they have a local super market, Eroski, that has everything. It is sort of odd to have a store that sells fish also sell cell phones, shoes, and CDs but you can get it all at Eroski. We now have place settings for 18.

    The party went pretty much like one would in the states. I think that they seemed a bit more reticent than Americans to talk about themselves or say anything controversial, but it was a fun group and we had a good time. Champaign, or the Spanish version that seemed equivalent to me, is big here. Each couple brought 2 bottles. (Though the group from Madrid said they only brought it because the flower shop was closed.)

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