four to go! I finished my first class yesterday and I'm off to britain tomorrow!!! I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!! Matt has gotten all his stuff together for work and we're packed to head to glasto.
All is well and hopefully a job will fall into place for me when I get back. Not much else to say, just wanted to let you all know how excited I am. I'll be back with all the details and pictures from glasto on the 27 june.
Adios!
16 June 2007
13 June 2007
YEY!!!!!
Matt got a job!!!!!! He'll be working at a english school summer camp teaching english to kids up in the Sierra Nevadas. He starts July 1 and works for six weeks with a couple of days off between sessions. He gets room and board up in this nice hotel and I can come see him on the weekends.
We're both super excited and it was the perfect set up because he starts right after we get back from Glastonbury!!!!!
Now I just have to find a gig and we'll be sorted. Even though i'll be sad that's Matt's leaving...it'll give me time to practice my spanish because he won't be around to talk for me. As good as he's been making me talk in spanish...if you know matt...you know he likes to talk...no matter the language. Besides...he was telling me how he never went to summer camp as a kid...so I told him this was his opportunity to make up for lost time...becasue summer camp is sooooo much fun!!!
Oh...btw...I was reading over my other posts this morning and realized that I spelled the name of my street incorrectly. It's not totally unrecognizable...I just put the "d" or "g" in the wrong place. To clear anything up it's C/Recogidas. Sorry if this screwed anyone up. I shouldn't be trusted with numbers and dates and street addresses. We all learned this last year.
Alrighty....that's it for now. Only 6 days until Glasto!!!!! 6 DAYS! 6 DAYS! 6 DAYS! Hugs and kisses!!!
We're both super excited and it was the perfect set up because he starts right after we get back from Glastonbury!!!!!
Now I just have to find a gig and we'll be sorted. Even though i'll be sad that's Matt's leaving...it'll give me time to practice my spanish because he won't be around to talk for me. As good as he's been making me talk in spanish...if you know matt...you know he likes to talk...no matter the language. Besides...he was telling me how he never went to summer camp as a kid...so I told him this was his opportunity to make up for lost time...becasue summer camp is sooooo much fun!!!
Oh...btw...I was reading over my other posts this morning and realized that I spelled the name of my street incorrectly. It's not totally unrecognizable...I just put the "d" or "g" in the wrong place. To clear anything up it's C/Recogidas. Sorry if this screwed anyone up. I shouldn't be trusted with numbers and dates and street addresses. We all learned this last year.
Alrighty....that's it for now. Only 6 days until Glasto!!!!! 6 DAYS! 6 DAYS! 6 DAYS! Hugs and kisses!!!
10 June 2007
Nothing too exciting this week...except...
Off to Britain in a week and Glastonbury on Tuesday night! I'm so excited! Get to see Arcade Fire, The Who, Manic Street Preachers, Killers, and loads more! Matt promises me that we'll both come back from Glasto with a clear head and lots of mud and grime...which we both need. The clear head at least...I could probably do without the mud, but it's forcasted to rain a bit...welcome to england i suppose. Anyways...out tickets came via Royal Mail the other day.
This past week has been much the same. Hard time finding work and my going to classes and it being HOT! The feast that the festival commererates Jesus' last supper and that the whole week is more or less about eating a movable feast. Supposedly the real party was outside of town at some fair with rides and rollercoaster, but sadly Matt and I didn't have the dinero or determination to go out there, especially when I ended class at 7 and we'd been walking around all day as it was looking for work. The last thing we wanted to do was walk around a fair.
Matt managed to find two days of work at a little cafe owned by a french guy, but after Matt worked his butt of during two of the busiest days of the festival, the guy turned around and said his spanish wasn't good enough. We sized this up to just an excuse because through out the corse of the day, while serving spanish people, they asked him where in Spain he was from! Besides, he's french and I heard him talk in Spainish...it's not like his is up to par. When I met him he started talking to me in french! So basically it is the same old same old. Matt then got called by Pizza Hut...which we're looking at as a last resort, and to top it all off, they want him to deliver, and one thing he doesn't posses is a valid liscense! He then stopped by this resurant again where manager promised him work as an assitant chef in the kitchen. Luckly the man gave his word that he would have work for him as off June 28, the day after we get back from Britain. Then again...it's just his word...and this is Spain.
As for me, I've dropped off a number of resumes at language schools, but no one has rung yet. One lady was really nice and said that they would find something. But in Spain that means they might be able to find something in a month, year or two -- mas o menos. We're hanging in there, but it's not easy. Sorry if I sound a bit pesimistic and skeptical, but it's not like we've been met with open arms these past four weeks. My spanish has improved ten fold and I am actually starting to understand people when they speak to me. Maybe it's just because they're my teachers at school who know they have to talk to me slowly, but I've picked up so much.
That's about it. Now that I've learned to post pictures on my blog they should become more frequent and a lot more interesting! Talk to you all laters.
This past week has been much the same. Hard time finding work and my going to classes and it being HOT! The feast that the festival commererates Jesus' last supper and that the whole week is more or less about eating a movable feast. Supposedly the real party was outside of town at some fair with rides and rollercoaster, but sadly Matt and I didn't have the dinero or determination to go out there, especially when I ended class at 7 and we'd been walking around all day as it was looking for work. The last thing we wanted to do was walk around a fair.
Matt managed to find two days of work at a little cafe owned by a french guy, but after Matt worked his butt of during two of the busiest days of the festival, the guy turned around and said his spanish wasn't good enough. We sized this up to just an excuse because through out the corse of the day, while serving spanish people, they asked him where in Spain he was from! Besides, he's french and I heard him talk in Spainish...it's not like his is up to par. When I met him he started talking to me in french! So basically it is the same old same old. Matt then got called by Pizza Hut...which we're looking at as a last resort, and to top it all off, they want him to deliver, and one thing he doesn't posses is a valid liscense! He then stopped by this resurant again where manager promised him work as an assitant chef in the kitchen. Luckly the man gave his word that he would have work for him as off June 28, the day after we get back from Britain. Then again...it's just his word...and this is Spain.
As for me, I've dropped off a number of resumes at language schools, but no one has rung yet. One lady was really nice and said that they would find something. But in Spain that means they might be able to find something in a month, year or two -- mas o menos. We're hanging in there, but it's not easy. Sorry if I sound a bit pesimistic and skeptical, but it's not like we've been met with open arms these past four weeks. My spanish has improved ten fold and I am actually starting to understand people when they speak to me. Maybe it's just because they're my teachers at school who know they have to talk to me slowly, but I've picked up so much.
That's about it. Now that I've learned to post pictures on my blog they should become more frequent and a lot more interesting! Talk to you all laters.
04 June 2007
Mondays aren't any better in Spain
So...it's Monday morning and I still have the same old Monday morning drag. Just sitting here finishing up some homework while Matt catches some more zzzz's. The weekend was rather uneventful, but relaxing none the less. I've had a real bad sore throat so I've just been drinking lots of water. I feel better today, but it's still bugging me. I think it's all the pollen from the trees. When it's breezy you can actually see clumps of the stuff floating through the air like snow. A lot of people actually walk around with face masks over their nose and mouth. As silly as it looks, I'm seriously contemplating invensting in one. It doesn't exactly make a fashion statement though.
On Saturday night Matt and I went out for tapas with our flatmate Claudia from Sicily and her friend Sophie from France. Since Claudia doesn't speak any english, and eveyone else speaks fluent spanish...I had no choice. As horrible as my grammer was...I did get the point across...and managed to talk about relative things like California and the States, not just things like pens and pencils and clothes and stuff.
Alright...the beast has arisen...so now I'm going to finish getting ready. Laters!
On Saturday night Matt and I went out for tapas with our flatmate Claudia from Sicily and her friend Sophie from France. Since Claudia doesn't speak any english, and eveyone else speaks fluent spanish...I had no choice. As horrible as my grammer was...I did get the point across...and managed to talk about relative things like California and the States, not just things like pens and pencils and clothes and stuff.
Alright...the beast has arisen...so now I'm going to finish getting ready. Laters!
02 June 2007
It's Saturday!
Which means I survived my first week. It actually wasn't that bad...I'm just super tired at the end of the day and now I'm all congested with a sore throat, but am better now that I've found some theraflu someone preceeding me left in the cupboard. Another reason to be better if that this upcoming Monday is the first day of Granada's Fiestas del Corpus aka Corpus Christi (and no...it is not a celebration of that boarder town in Texas with the same name.) I'm still trying to figure out what it's all about, but I know for sure it's religious...then again...what big celebration with floats and costumes and fireworks in Spain isn't? They've been preparing for weeks, putting lights and decorations all around town...and I'm super excited. It officially kicks off Monday...but there is still plenty happening this weekend.
And then there's only two weeks until Matt and I head back to Britain for Glastonbury. They offically accounced the line up yesterday...with The Who headlining Sunday!
Other than play...Matt and I have been working really hard. But that's about it for now. Adios amigos!
And then there's only two weeks until Matt and I head back to Britain for Glastonbury. They offically accounced the line up yesterday...with The Who headlining Sunday!
Other than play...Matt and I have been working really hard. But that's about it for now. Adios amigos!
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