Blogs from Ávila, Castile & León, Spain, Europe - page 2

Well, howdy, ya’ll! Long time, no post! I haven’t updated in two weeks because I haven’t had enough blog-ish material for separate entries, so I’m lumping it all into one long one. Happy reading! Last weekend (the 11th), just about everyone left for various individual trips… Thursday was some holiday in the region of Valencia (although no matter how many times it was explained to me, I still don’t understand it), so everything was closed for the day, and most people took a long weekend. I stayed here, though, as Saturday was the Volvo Ocean Race! Daman and I went down at around 10, and the line to get in was enormous! It was really rainy and windy, but the crowds poured in. The boats took off around 11, but, like the weekend before, just sailed ... read more

So it was about time that I took a trip to visit Louis in Ávila. I managed to catch the last us and got there just in time for the trip to the kebab and then, the bars!!! Despite it's size, Ávila seems to have a healthy proportion of young people and therefore...bars! Hurray! Besides that, Shannon had appointed herself my winglady for the weekend. If perhaps I had mastered the knack of Spanish chat-up, we may have made an indestructable pair. But as it is. Im absolutely bloody useless at pulling in Spain. Ah well. It was a good night and we crashed back home at around 4am. NOt too shabby. The next day was a rather tender affair. I woke up snuggling with the cat Pantera, and spent the rest of the morning gingerly ... read more

So yesterday we took a day trip to Avila. All was going fine. I was at Kastin's house getting ready and took out my cell phone to play a game and then slipped it into my pocket. After we arrive in Avila, Pablo gets a phone call from our friend saying she has my phone. I have never felt so confused in my entire life!!! Apparently it slipped out of my pocket when I got change out at the newstand to buy a newspaper after we left Kastin's house. What happened was some lady found my phone and called the first person in my address book, Angela. Angela then met the lady, got my phone, and gave it to our other friend who we were meeting that night! Then she called Pablo to let him know ... read more

Hola amigos! Como estas? See my Spanish IS improving!! Like I have said before it is not easy picking up the language seeing as I am teaching English, planning lessons in English and everyone I live with speaks English. Even my roommate from Mexico wants to always speak English so he can improve, but that doesn't mean I am not trying. Last weekend, I spent almost the entire weekend surrounded by the Spanish language. It was difficult but necessary. Friday night I went to a friend of Marcos' (my Mexican roommate) for a little while. Everyone there was from Mexico so Spanish was the language of the night. It was difficult at first because there were about 10 different conversations going on at once, so I had to focus on one and listen carefully. I will ... read more

Aujourd'hui c'est très brumeux au lever, il faut dire que la mer est déchaînée. On ne peut même pas se baigner. Il y a même des gardiens qui regarde les quelques singlés qui veulent. On se retrouve aujourd'hui a terminé nos petits cadeaux pour le retour. On commence à vraiment avoir hâte de repartir nos mousses et les maris nous manquent beaucoup! Et je crois bien que c'est la même chose au Québec. Mais ce qu'il y a de drôle là-dedans c'est de voir notre Sonia International allé au magasin pour demander une peinture(et tout ça en Espagnol mélangé de Français) pour repeinturer le fameux plafond où l'on retrouvait quelques goutelettes de vin rouge qui en passant était très bon(Sonia avait voulu ouvrir une bouteille de vin avec un couteau (il n'y avait d'ouvre bouteille) et ... read more