second day...

not too much going on around here today. school doesn´t start til friday, so i´ve basically just been keeping myself busy by taking walks and bike rides. yesterday we ate the most interesting thing though:
i sat down for dinner and saw a plate sitting in the middle of the table. on it were strips of meat that looked like bright jerky. my host mother said ¡jamón! ¡come! this means ham! eat! so i figured it was ham, right? oh no. i tasted it, and it tasted uncooked. i looked at my host brother and said -¿en qué se cocinó? (what was it cooked in?)- he responded -no se cocinó.(it wasn´t cooked)- i almost died. so as if to elaborate, my host mother went into the corner and pulled a towel off of what i had previously thought was a machine. ohhhh no. not a machine. a leg of a dead deer, uncooked. apparently this is quite normal in spain. i doubt i´ll catch on. =]