Tupperware

Tupperware. Tupperware. Tupperware. At Pension Jaen, one of the first things you’ll do when you arrive to Guardamar is go to Mercadona or the Chino Store and buy tupperware. Vicente, one of the liveliest people you’ll meet, is in charge of the Jaen restaurant, the place you’ll eat during the week. At the Pension they give enormous portions that are merely impossible to finish in one sitting. They start off with a salad, bread with allioli, and drinks, then you get a starter plate that typically consist of paella (a typical spanish dish) or pasta, and then the main dish that consists of creative creations from the cooks. Because this is so much food, the routine at the Pension is to bring your tupperware and save one of the dishes for dinner. 

Once you’re packed and ready to go you must hurry because if you take to long, once you reach one of the 3 small refrigerators, your tupperware might not fit, and you’ll have to do an intense game of Tetris trying to reorganize everyone else's plate to make space for your dish. 

Once you decide it’s dinner time, you grab your tupperware and a dish and put it in the microwave. Make sure you have napkins, and MAKE SURE TO WASH YOUR DISHES AFTER YOU FINISH. It’s so easy for dishes to pile up!

This is the typical dinning routine at the Pension Jaen. It’s an essential part of the experience of the Architecture Studio in Spain. 

- Ekaxi