Aventura 6: Chocolate Caliente

So.  The chocolate calientes here? That is to say the hot chocolates? Well, these aren't any hot chocolates I've ever seen.  See for yourself:

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These chocolate calientes are actually melted hot chocolate.  It's incredible.  It's amazing.  And an adventure in itself.  But the real adventure today came with the chocolate caliente.  So yesterday I had an intercambio, where I meet with a UB student and we talk a little in english, a little in spanish, to practice both.  So I met with Belén, a student at UB, and today I met with her again, but travelled 40 minutes outside Barcelona en train to Mataró, a city in the afueras (cities and villages outside the city).  We went to this amazing cafe shop, drank (more like ate?) chocolate calientes, and just talked and talked! And her friends came at the end, and I met them and we just talked and laughed - and it was wonderful.  It's so cool to get to know someone from España, because we can study here and be here as much as we want, but until we get to know the people who live here, we'll never really get to know the city and the afueras.