Sant Cugat Rugby Club

First thing in the morning we went to P.'s rugby club where they were having an annual meeting.

Rugby's not a very popular or even a known sport (most Spaniards confuse it with American football) so this is one of two clubs in the whole of Catalunya and even then, it's rather small for British or Argentinean standard. However the club's building is quite new, the field has only a couple of years and is made of artificial grass (visually stunning, from afar it looks like an emerald green oasis in the middle of the general brownish hills). Apparently the club's old place was bulldozed a few years ago when the local council built a motorway, and as part of the agreement, the council gave new lands and it's slowly building a completely new club.
Off course, the players and the parents of the younger kids run and keep the whole thing going. As usual, there's a small core of people doing all the work and they're always in need of money and help.

There's not much we can do regarding to getting money or finding sponsors, we don't know a soul here yet, so I thought that we can help out creating and maintaining a web site for the club, so I offered "the husband" knowledge and expertise and my work. They loved the idea and told us that the council offered to have the club web page in their site and they'd love to share the job, so we'll be in charge of creating and maintaining the section for the younger kids.

Next Wednesday we all going to Perpignan to watch the kids play, so we'll take pictures and videos to start the season's page up and running as soon as we can.

I've no idea how to create or maintain a web page, so I'll learn it as i go along. And I'll tell you the address so you can see it as soon as we have something running.

By the way, next Wednesday is fiesta again. No work or school that day so we'd be able to travel to France to watch the match. It's the day of the dead, so people go to the cemetery to take flowers to their dead. Part of the tradition for this time of the year is also to eat panellets, baked sweet potatoes, roast chestnuts and sweet wine. You can see the panellest here, they're delicious and very easy to prepare, you can check the recipe if you click on the highlighted word.

I'm a firm believer of the old adage "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" so, we'll be eating panellets the whole week. One has to support local traditions.

One of the parties bidding for office on the incoming election proposed a card for immigrants where they'll get point for positive actions toward integration. Although I think that the idea is pure electoral nonsense, I wonder how much points we'd get for eating the panellets.