Sundays are Fundays

Today was a really wonderful day. Joan and I were up early enough to give the piso a good clean and to go to mass at St.Feliu church. I understood only a bit as it was in Catalan but being a Catholic church, it translates. At 1:30 his parents and brother came from Lloret to see our place and then we went to a great place for lunch. The dishes were very catalan but delicious. I had a mousse of eggplant with four cheese sauce. I thought I would hate it but it was like nothing I've ever had-delicious. We had dessert, wine and lots of laughs. Joan's mom loved the area, the gardens and all the little shops. She plans to come again one Saturday so I can show her more of Girona as she is more familiar with Barcelona.

Sergi's birthday was yesterday so we had a mini celebration at our place after lunch. I loved that his parents came today, they were so excited to see our place and for us it was a nice change to lunch in lloret at the house. We had a feeling that his parents were very proud of us. We're living in the city, in a very modern,very posh area in a beautiful apartment, working hard and just doing well. We did work hard to get to this point. Anyone can see that we've come along way from last December when I arrived. With only 1000 euros in my account, we didn't have jobs or a place to stay and look at us now. In 10 months we'ce grown a lot.

Tomorrow will be a busy day as usual, I'm working and teaching three English classes. Tonight I want to relax with a glass of wine and watch a movie with my sweetie. It's going to be a long week.

Hope all is well where you are.

Ciao

Why Friday Is Great

Here's the scoop:

1.I found out I'm going to Madrid with Moises on November 20th for Recruitment-yes!
2.The girls in my English class are doing very well and one of them wants private lessons
3.The boss and I are getting along well and she told me I would be doing Recruitment and IDs from now on which is great news
4.I'm doing a bit of shopping today which is a long time coming! My extra money from Acadomia really helps!
5. My grandmother is sending me Christmas things from home, bath and body works scents, baking goods, music and I'm thrilled!
6.Joan and I are getting our new plasma t.v. today from the man that designed our piso!

Hope you are having a great Friday as well!

Back to the Blog

I'm currently in the library at the School of Languages here in Girona, my class was cancelled until tomorrow so I am making use of my time to catch up on my correspondance.

First, OBAMA! I woke up at 7 a.m. on November 4th, ran downstairs, turned on the news and I saw the best thing to happen to the white house since JFK! A young, open-minded leader full of hope to change our country for the better. Every station was covering the news, the newspapers today all have pictures of Obama and his family, polls, just about everything and anything to do with the election. People may not realize that the rest of the world (Spain specifically) was also waiting anxiously for the results. Right now, the states and Spain do not have good relations since the President of Spain decided to pull out the troops in the war and Bush disagreed. Obama wants to ( I have to say it) change that and that is something people here really care about.
I don't want to talk politics anymore so...

Joan and I are settling better into our new home. There have been some surprises such has the power going out when we turn on the oven, building my closet (this was quite and adventure that involved Joan borrowing the truck from the furniture store to bring back the what they gave us because it was wrong and then getting home to realize only two pieces were the wrong color and we could have fit them in the car) moving furniture, getting into a routine and getting organized, as well as getting locked out of our house last Friday.
We are so close to having everything in its place. What we really need though is a desk. I am teaching six english classes a week and need a place for all my lessons etc. I'm still in Spanish class and would love a place tp study. Hopefully this weekend we can search around.

Next week Joan has to drive from here to Reus which is almost two hours with Casandra and then take a plane to Santander for Recruitment. He will be going overnight which means take-out and movie night for me! We will also be going to Stanstead next week as well. I will have to meet the Ryanair people, learn my way around the airport so next time I can go by myself. I wish we had time (and money) to go to London, sometimes being so close is worse than not going at all. Although I do love buying books in English, eating "more American" like foods including Dr.Pepper and Joan and I always stop at Starbucks. It isn't a bad time at all.

All in all things are going well. I am always busy but I am working full time at Cavok and teaching, I will be obtaining my TEFL certificate through a accredited online course so I can be more informed about grammar, lesson planning etc and be able to get a better job teaching English as a second language if I want to in the future. Early next year I also plan to finish my degree through a distance course with Dublin University. After all that happens, Joan and I want to move back to the states. I've said this before but after two or two and a half years here we may want to give New York a try or perhaps in Kansas City. Time will tell.

Joan ordered our internet package today and they say it could take up to 30 days for them to install everything. I will have to resort to short time periods at the library to blog and check my emails.

Until next time-