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Question: Describe the typical daily routine for someone from your host country. What time does everything happen? What is extremely different, and what is exactly the same?
Written by: Leslie Dias
A typical day in Pamplona starts around 8 or 9 a.m. Almost every student has early morning classes because of the afternoon break. Before heading off to class, I usually eat a piece of fruit and a cup of café con leche.
In Spain, they don’t have regular coffee because they think it’s too watered down. Nor do they use cold milk because they think it is weird to put cold milk in a hot drink. Therefore, café con leche is espresso with steaming milk.
In between classes, students usually go down to the cafeterias and get a croissant and more coffee. As 2 p.m. approaches, students and professors have a break for two hours.
They either go back to their apartments to have a big lunch or go to the cafeterias, which are always packed between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Classes resume after 4 p.m., but all of my classes are in the morning, so usually I go back to the apartment by 12 p.m.
Later in the day, people usually go for walks and go shopping in the Old Quarter of the city. Spaniards are always walking around at any time during the day.
Around dinnertime, people go out for appetizers or pinxtos at bars, and they eat a light dinner at 10 p.m. As you can see, northern Spain revolves around eating!
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