I thought I was going to be writing about how awful my weekend was. The boys were terrible Friday morning and I was really not looking forward to the 3 hour drive to Caceres with them, much less losing all my free time ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went on a mysterious errand with Maria Jose and the boys. "We're going to buy bread and then to the church to ask a question". A question? It was so weird. I've never seen them do anything religious before. They don't go to church, or pray (that I can see) or have crucifixes or anything around the house. So we went to the church and ( Read more... )

Yesterday was incredibly beautiful outside and the boys and I and Maria Jose and her friend Sylvia (who, Alison, reminds me a lot of Joan) and Sylvia's son Nicolas went to the park and played futbol and it was great. I love being outside! I want to have a picnic ( Read more... )

1. Like a Prayer
2. Since U Been Gone
3. Don't Stop Me Now
4. Upside Down From Here
5. I Hear the Bells

Yesterday people were shooting a movie about a block from my class. It was so exciting! No Almodovar, sadly. I didnt recognize anyone, but it seemed like a fairly big production. The actors were wearing 1940s? period clothes. So I need to keep an eye out for all Spanish period movies next year ( Read more... )

Yesterday the school Im taking my Spanish classes at had a showing of Volver. I was really sad I couldnt go because I had to pick up the boys. In my class we were talking and no one else had heard of it. So today I get to class and the teacher had the 3 people who had been to see it explain the movie. The whole plot! And then they started talking ( Read more... )

It's not snowing here.
It wasn't snowing in Chicago.
According to weather.com, it's not snowing in Beloit.
There's no ice storm to be seen.

I am so mad. And I feel like an idiot, and very sad that I didn't go.

It's looking like I probably won't go to Chicago... though I still have about 3 hours to decide. Man, we have the worst luck. I'm now officially homeless because Ido moved in around 10:15 this morning. I had just gotten back from Maya's house around 9, so good thing I got up really early. I'm still wearing the clothes I wore yesterday, and slept in ( Read more... )

I had dinner with Scott and Aida and Farah tonight, and Farah, who'll be 3 at the end of the month, speaks the cutest Denglish. Like "Dada's leg ist besser, now he can fahr die auto to dance class with me!" and, oh, I can't make these up and that's the only one I can remember. I always assumed that she didn't realize the difference between the ( Read more... )

I'm at that point in packing where I'm really, really, close to being done, it's just a lot of little things that I have to do. And clean the house. That's the thing I'm really avoiding doing. And I have some of those "I should but I don't need to" errands... which I probably won't end up doing ( Read more... )