I had a cancellation tonight, so I jumped at the chance to buy groceries... don't know how I was going to manage to eat properly otherwise. Things have heated up.

Anyways, rather than getting at my work that still needs to be done, immediately after snacking on some finally decent bread (had to run across the river to get it), it sat down at the dining room table (just a tiny table good for two or three really). Pepa was reading on her kindle or other e-book thingy, but as soon as I sat down we started to chat. This was really necessary as last week was loca - semana santa and her grandchildren here and she finally sick the last few days. I feel like an unsociable weirdo eating in my room in front of the computer. It's what I always did in the previous place because of the unpleasantness of my companeras, and for that matter, the dining room. I have had tons of stuff to do as well, so took every chance to be in front of my computer.

Pepa told me of her family - she has three children. Her husband died quite a long time ago and she came back to the city of her birth, after living most of her life in Rio Tinto and Huelva (capital of a neighboring province). Mainly she told me about going to Asturias with her husband, where he was from, on vacation in August. You'd think any Sevillano would be glad to get out of the unbelievable heat during that month. She said she couldn't understand why her sister in law woke them up in the morning because it was sunny and they should all go to the beach. She jumped off a big stone into the ocean, as everyone else was doing, and said she just about died of cold. At first the greenness everywhere was so beautiful. But after a couple days of clouds, and then more clouds and rain. She said, "I'm not a cow. I'm not going to go around eating all this green. I need sun!" And wanted to go back to Andalucia. She said after 28 days of this, she was really depressed.
She tells me about this neighborhood and how everybody knows everyone, and about how open they are. It is true. You can feel it when you cross the bridge. I have had that thought a number of times myself, but she says this is true. People are just that much more friendly here, as if they weren't already in Sevilla center. It is significantly more relaxed.