Edited: The post wasn’t timely since the Pares place was already closed so I decided to edit that out.

Nuria has a very outgoing personality. Upon arriving Iloilo from Boracay, she just left her bag at my place and we went around downtown.

She had a taste of the Queen siopao by Roberto’s. Honestly, that was my first time also to have Queen siopao. I’m not a siopao person. I either buy cheeseburger or the sotanghon whenever I eat there.

Then we went to Smallville, Atria, and had desserts at Sweet Cravings.

At my place, like we talked about earlier, we watched Barcelona: A Love Untold. It was kind of fair because while it was a disadvantage for her because it was Tagalog, we couldn’t read the English subtitle whenever someone is speaking in Spanish because it was a pirated copy and the part with the subtitles was cut.

She pointed out different sites in Barcelona and her hometown, Girona, and gave us some trivia or fun facts about those places or structure such as the unfinished Sagrada Familia Basilica and the place where Game of Thrones shot some scenes for the 6th season. It’s not only the movie taking my sister and I into Barcelona, Nuria did that as well with her stories and the knowledge she shared to us.

I went to AM duty the day after and she walked around the city some more. She told me she bought the ticket to Palawan so I sent her off to the port.

It was fun to meet her because she talks a lot, I guess that’s what you get when you’re faced with a teacher. It’s just disappointing she didn’t stay long. I didn’t have the chance to have more Spanish lessons with her as that’s her specialty, especially Catalan which according to her is a mix of Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese.

I saw in her a person who gets very chatty when talking about something that she loves. I miss that in myself, when I have rare chances of being talkative because someone is interested to hear about the things that I love.