What a beautiful autumn weather! I really enjoy the clear air, the amazing colors, the soft light when the sun goes down. The way the cold wind makes your nose numb so that you have to face the sun to melt the icicle. Unfortunately all this is only given if it's not rainy and foggy, like usually. However, the last few days have been wonderful. 
I've been out for some foto sessions. These are my facourite shots:

Yesterday we went with a friend of Sabrina on a trip to the monasteries in the area north east of Ourense. They all differed a lot from oneanother and I'm convinced the forest that sorrounds them is enchanted! 

NUMBER ONE:

NUMBER TWO:

NUMBER THREE:

NUMBER FOUR:

I have been thinking about my conversational skills. I can have a vivid conversation with people I know and people who are open and willing to talk to me. I understand jokes and can be funny myself. However, it is much harder to speak with someone who is not interested in talking to me. They often (probably unintentionally) make me feel ashamed for my accent and for the words that I don't know. As soon as I feel comfortable though, I can confidentally talk without any problems.
Sabrina and I talk in Spanish of course and we understand eachother perfectly. Altough we might be using words from time to time that nobody else has ever heard before ;)

The "Noite Meiga"! This is how they call their Halloween here. It is the Galician expression for "Witches' Night" and we celebrated it on the 2nd of November. There is no Trick or Treat but people dress up as corpses, ghosts, vampires and witches to crowd the Plaza Mayor, visit the tunnel of terror, watch the concert and dance in the pubs. Sabrina and I helped taking pictures of the people who came to the facepaint room to get...well...mostly severely injured! 

But, to be honest, we did not look very healthy ourselves:

There was this woman. She passed by, looked at us, put on a face of plain disgust and made this sound...pretty much like "Bouwah!". What more could you wish for?
The eyes are made of ping-pong balls. We found the aprons in the flat. Some old forks. Some old spoons. A little bit of flour and water. A little bit of red and black paint. And a lot of fun! 

There also was a competition of Jack O'Lanterns. I decided to participate and I wanted to create a very special pumpkin! So I bought an overpriced pumpkin and some cheap carving tools. 
And guess who won the competition! The award was a Noite Meiga bag, badge and shirt, a bottle of liqueur of herbs and a diploma.

I will probably never make an ordinary Jack O'Lantern again!