Ok so last Monday after blogging, I probably ran some errands, came home and practiced guitar until it was time to go to have class with Nacho and Alicia. The dinner that night was a delicious Mexican feast that included the Spanish version of nachos and soft tacos, including, guacamole and sour cream. Nothing really like the true taste but close enough to be amazing. We had a good class and then Nacho took me home and we rocked out to Queen´s Bohemian Rapshody all the way home. Then I probably did some more stuff and went to bed.
Tuesday, November 27th I woke up, also was too lazy to go running and went to guitar. Then I mailed some more postcards and stopped back by my house and now the details are all so fuzzy. So yeah more running errands and shopping. I think I did some serious Christmas shopping that day. I pretty much go crazy Monday and Tuesday since they are my only days off. Tuesday after lunch I had a full evening of class. From 6-7 with Marta, 7-8 with Carletes and 8-9 with Maria Angeles. So they all went pretty well and then I came home pretty tired, talked to my mom on the phone, watched some tv and ate some dinner and went to bed.
Wednesday, I went to work, 2 hours with the teachers, and then 1 hour with the kids that just went so - so. It had been a long time since they had had real English but it got over soon enough. Then I walked home, made a pizza, and got ready for class with Conchi and Valentina. They kinda come whenever they make it out there so its always a suprise and a little frustrating. But that went well too and it also got over soon enough. Then in the evening.... I don´t remember anymore except for practicing the guitar and posting the pictures on my blog. Then Kyle XY with the roommies and bed.
Thursday I actually had a pretty good day at work. My classes went well and the kids were pretty good and seemed interested and I think we all had a good time. It was fun because I told them a joke in Spanish but made them learn the vocabulary in English and translated phrases for them like "I´m the bomb" or "I rock!" which they care more about learning that other vocabulary. They can talk about whatever they want as long as its in English. So it suprisingly went really well. Then I came home pretty late, made and ate lunch, rested and went to guitar. My guitar teacher is a character and either Tuesday or Thrusday he said this epic quote, the title of this blog, which my feministy friends will love. He more or less said, "An untuned guitar is like a woman who leaves her house without getting dressed up." When he said that all I could do was smile and laugh. And then he tried to explain himself more. You gotta love 70 year olds. Then I bought some stuff on the way home and then watched tv and went to bed really, really early.
Friday morning, I woke up and somehow made myself go running, ate breakfast, got ready and went to work. It was just an ok day, but shorter because I didn´t have to go in for the first hour. At the beginning of the one class where the girls drew the note/drawing of me, (featured in the last photo blog) they came up and apologized to me for how they acted during that class. I think that was very nice of them even if I´m sure a teacher made them. In the last hour of class the teacher never told me what we were doing so I didn´t prepare anything. Then on the way to class she said we´re gonig to correct some exercises and I said fine... But by that she meant, you´re going to correct the exercises you´ve never seen and I´m going to sit in the back of the class while you look stupid because you don´t really know what you´re doing... That was fun and I was glad we ended 10 minutes early and that my dad called me right after so I could talk to him the whole way I walked home. So I got home really late, cooked something and rushed to the class I have at 5, which thankfully repeated with me even though I charged them 15€. YEssssss!!! :) So then when I was walking home I saw a store that had FREE MASSAGES written all over it and I went in to check it out. They were selling these massage beds and let you try them first. It was pretty cool. Any free massage is a good one. Then I came home, visited with Pepa and Emilio for a bit. I stopped by to tell Emilio that I couldn´t go with him to this Grand Opening of a Factory for somethign with his work. He had invited me but I really didn´t want to go because there was really no reason for me to be there except for me to be awkward, but Emilio feels I need to break out of my circle of what I usualy do, because students in Granada don´t do anything worthwhile, and do more things with him. Anway, I just stopped by to tell him that I couldn´t go because I had plans, and excuse I had made up, but they trapped me there for a while untill he left and I could finally break away from just Pepa. Its kinda like lions hunting in a pack. Its easier to escape from 1 than from 2. So then I went upstairs and practiced guitar and did some other stuff and then Victor made it from Malaga and the Grand Opening thing. We were going to go over to Nacho and Alicia´s for dinner and I stopped by the 7th floor again. Raul who was back in Granada for his Master´s class and came with us to hang out and give Nachete his bday presents. I was a little nervous because it was going to be all the Bullejos Brothers together for some bonding time and that was the first time we were all going to hang out like that. We had a really good time, playing with the kids, talking, joking and eating. I feel like I had a breakthrough with Raul, who scares the crap out of me, that now that I´ve hung out with him and his brothers, I´ve seen a different side of the super serious guy he is with his parents, slightly less serious, and capable of joking around. He still scares me to death, but Friday night was a step forward. Raul went home pretty early, and then the kids went to bed and the 4 of us left watched a movie on tv, then we went home and went to bed.
Saturday Victor and I had some serious shopping to do so we went out to do it in the morning. All 3 of his nieces and nephews have birthdays in December so we had to buy at least 6 toys, 3 for bdays and 3 for xmas. We drove to this big toy store next to Toys-R-Us, called Jugetelandia and were there for hours picking out the perfect gifts and wrapping them. I had a ridiculously good time as I love Christmas, and shopping for presents, and wrapping and everythng!!! It was really, really fun and I think we did really well with our final choices. Then we came back and ate a really good lunch with Victor´s parents and Raul, chatted and watched tv and then Raul left to go back to his home and after a while Victor and I went back out for some more walking around and Christmas shopping. Victor is almost completely done, because I´ve helped him so much, but I still have a ton to go... We also stopped by this cool photography exposition that showed old pictures of Granada. Then we came back and bought tickets to go see Blade Runner at the theaters. We watched the soccer game on tv and had some tapas before the movies. I didn´t really know what Blade Runner was about, only that it had Harrison Ford in it, and it was a Sci-Fi thriller, so I thought it was going to be good. It wasn´t and I don´t really reccommend it to anyone. Then home and bed.
Then Sunday I went to church and they had a lady preach. She talked about demon possesed people and how we should pray for them. Then I went home and Victor and I made lunch for ourselves. Pepa and Emilio had left for the beach to visit thier other granddaughter, but not before leaving us stuff for lunch. We had bread, fried potatoes, delicious meat, mandarins and even Tiramisu for 2! Spanish moms are ridiculous! We watched tv, I fell asleep in the chair again for siesta time, chilled around in the house for the rest of the day till we went over to Nacho and Alicia´s in the evening to give Nachete his birthday present. His birthday is on Tuesday, so we wanted to give him his present when we could both be there. When we got there, eveyone, except Alicia, had just woken up from a nap and was in a really bad mood. So Nachete opened up the giant bucket of 168 pieces of legos and put it in his toy box without playing with it. I was a little, ok extremely, dissapointed at his reaction after how excited I was about his presents but hopefully he will like it a lot more later. We stayed there for a while, then came back and Victor packed up to go back to Málaga. Then he left, I ate dinner with Pepa and Emilio, as ordered, and went upstairs and did some laundry, wrote some more post cards, watched Camera Café and more tv with Adrian and Violeta his girlfriend and then went to bed.
This morning I slept in a bit and when I woke up I had a really hard time going running but I didt it anyway after wasting tons of time. Then I showered and wasted some more time but made it on time to meet up with Samar and Jenna to pick up or resident cards! Yay!! I finally have it and it should be the last time I have to go wait in line at the police station. Then we split up to run some seperate errands, I went with Jenna and Samar met back up with us again and we had some tapas. Then we parted ways and I went shopping and came here to use the internet. Now I plan on doing some more shopping, going home, eating dinner and doing more stuff. Tomorrow I have guitar and another cultural outing with Emilio and classes in the evening. Wednesday 2 hours of work and then its another puente!! Victor and I are planning a road trip to visit De in Salamanca, so I´ll write more later!
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