Plucking feathers and eyeball gouging.

I've now been in Bilbao for just over a week, and it's great! The weather has gotten better (bar Saturday night's storm), the sun has made a couple of appearances and everything is just going great! Happy times :)

Work is still superb, I constantly get to do stuff I haven't done before, and I just want to do more. I've even learned the kitchen staff's names; there's Zuri, Balta and Adrian, and then Rober who is currently on vacay and I haven't met him yet.

I did an evening shift on Friday, during which Zuri and I cleaned up a sorda (absolutely no idea what it is called in English). Here is a visual aid:

Oh my goodness it's supersoft sort of like Pixi if you ever gave her a little pat. Now for you hunting folk in England who've picked apart a bazillion pheasants this will be nothing new to you (and potentially of no interest either), but I've never done anything of this sort so I am keenly telling you all about my experience. You start by snipping off half of the wing with scissors, and then start pluckin'! Once the bird nekkid (and the floor covered in feathers), you gouge out the little eyeballs with scissors, that was kind of gross. It got served so that it's head was on the plate (you don't eat it, imagine stuffing that beak down your throat!), and it's intestines were mushed together with foie gras and served on toast. Yum?

On Saturday I had a jolly evening with the Finns; but getting to their place was quite an ordeal. I mentioned the storm earlier, it was CRAY CRAY. So crazy that I actually broke my umbrella. I'm actually quite sad about that as I got if as gift from my Grandmother for my high school graduation, and it has Moomins on it. But I got a new BIG one and hopefully it will last future storms. Anyhoo, once I got to their flat and dried off, the merryment began! Oh being a country where a litre of not too bad white wine cost 1,15€ (the other one they had seemed to be of a higer quality but it cost 1,19€ and let's face it, 0,04€ is a considerable amount of money to save when you're on a budget) and where you get free drinks in a bar because you are an exotic Finn. NOT EVEN JOKING ABOUT THAT ONE.

One of these days I might get my butt in gear and upload some photos, but until then enjoy this (eventhough it's shit and funny and not even Spanish but it's great and you can further your Spanish by listening to it and I can remember stuff from Buenos Aires (REMEMBER, SAUL????) and yeah it's really awful but I remembered it yesterday so enjoy)