Tidbits II:

>School supplies are different here. There is no lined paper or folders. Notebooks have graph papers and are much longer than in the US (Although, they do have Bic four-color pens!)

>To say chubby in Spain you say hermoso, which also means beautiful!

>Taxi drivers in Valencia are A LOT friendlier and talkative than in Barcelona.

>Kids get out of school at 5pm (the bus stop is right outside my apartment window) and they take normal city buses, not school buses.

>If you talk to a European for more than a minute the chances of them asking you "who is going to win, Obama or Hilary" is VERY high

>Spaniards are very defensive about their siesta break. They adamantly insist they do no actually nap during the day. (Nevertheless, I still find the mid-day siesta break very inefficient. I see stores bring in all their stuff off the sidewalk and close their shops around 1:30, then have to put everything back out around 3:30 only to put it all away at 6:30.)