Not many lessons this month...basically a month of fun and travelling, and I am reminded how lucky i am to be here following my dreams. this has been absolutely amazing so far what with the people ive met through my class and through work, and being in beautiful Spain. i enjoy my work and my students, i am learning as much from them as they are from me, i get to travel, and im living again in Spain. I made this happen for myself, and i'm very happy about it. A friend of a friend was visiting last weekend and was completely blown away by our lives here--we work few hours a week but make enough to pay rent and enjoy living here. the culture is so much more relaxed compared to the states. don't get me wrong, the spanish are opinionated, loud, and irritating. but i love them. they are a passionate people. a marathon was going on in Lisbon when we were there, and we stopped to watch for a few minutes. there was a group of spanish people standing near us singing and chanting loudly , wearing spanihs flags like capes. i love to laugh at them and make fun of their bizarre ways, but it is only because i love them. their language is beautiful, and their ways admirable, even if different than mine. at first siesta time everyday is irritating (everything in the city shuts down for 2-3 hours each afternoon) but you get used to it. some days all the shouting and the lines for the lottery (theyre obsessed with the lottery!) and the woman with briefcases on wheels make me so angry, but other days i smile and laugh, because its spain.
Our explanation for anything bizarre here has become "well..its Spain." A random toilet in the middle of a street..."It's Spain" or restaurants not opening for dinner until 830, people wheeling their kids in strollers around well after midnight, people trying to sell you socks and used containers of shampoo at the market, an hour wait at the grocery store because they only have one person working checkout...all of these things have a simple explanation. I'm in Spain...and the Spanish are crazy.
Feliz Navidad! just 2 days of work this week(tomorrow and Thurs) and then off to Milan on Friday...where i will be stuffing myself with pizza!
Ricardo brought Shaz and I a weird pudding cake type thing from Northern Spain , i'm eating some now..its ok, kind of sweet and milky.
ciao!
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