It’s not uncommon in Spain for people to have cookies and milk for breakfast, but I understood cookies to be a breakfast cookie, such as Belvita, because I had had something similar to those for breakfast in Sevilla.
One of my responsibilities was to help the girls get breakfast, but a lot of mornings they were up before the sun was and would start helping themselves when they saw me come out of my room.
One morning, they pulled out packages of mini Oreos and claimed this was breakfast. I thought they were pulling my leg (they loved to do that), but they were adamant that their parents let them have Oreos and milk for breakfast on occasion.
This was SUCH a concept to me — it’s pretty unheard of in the U.S. My brothers and I were NEVER allowed cookies for breakfast, but I decided to trust them and gave them the go-ahead.
If you want to laugh, watch this short vid! They would each create their own tower of mini Oreos and then check-in with each other to make sure that they were eating them at the same pace. In the video, Ana (on the left) is telling Eva (on the right) that she needs to eat one of hers so that the height of their stacks matched.
They tested me and challenged me every single day, but life was certainly never boring with them.