The weekend
Good morning! Hope you all had a splendid weekend :) I spent mine on a couple of beaches, asleep and covered with sand and salt. What better way to live? First I went to Gavá Mar with the fam. It was a nice beach, with a small restaraunt on it, where we ate lunch. They have the best seafood here! Dani drove us there, he´s just received his graduated license, so he´s practicing driving with the parents. They didn´t enjoy the ride so much, but I silently got a kick out of watching the dad struggle to keep his mouth shut in the back seat.
The second beach was Sitges, the best beach in the area. Sitges is a small little village, right on the coast, with a lot of it´s old architecture still intact. There´s a big church that chimed the hour and quarter hour, and small cobble stoned streets curving through the tall stone castle-like buildings. Within these streets are small shops and venders, and on either side of the buildings are stairs down to the beach, where hundreds of people laid themselves out like beached sea creatures, just soaking up the rays, then diving into the water to cool off.
It tell you, that was the greatest water I have ever swam in. It was the perfect temperature, and the waves rolled on, not too strong, not too weak, just perfect waves. I got in and didn´t want to get out, just kneeled there on the sandy floor of the Mediterranean Sea, letting the waves pick me up and carry me where ever they felt like it. The view was perfect no matter where you looked. if you looked out to the horizon, it was dotted with colorful sailboats. Looking into land there was tall ancient buildings, with clay tile roofs, and bright red flowers surrounding carved Grecian statues. Just wonderful. Heaven on earth. It took a lot for me to hop the train and get back to Barcelona . . . but I made it.
I called Joe, and we talked for a while (until the phone card died), which was great. It´s not often we both have the time to catch up, seeing as we´re both busy and live 6 time zones apart. Sounds like he, and all those who traveled to the Tigers game, had a fantastic weekend!
It´s a grey morning here in Barcelona. The sky is heavy, as is the air, aching for a chance to rain and let everything go. People are moving a little more sluggishly, you sweat standing still. I was happy to have the rain hold off until I arrived at school this morning, seeing as this is the first day I havne´t brought my jacket with me. There was a slight mist, the kind that you can feel hit you, but you can¨t see in the air. It´s ghost like, really.
But it´s the first day of the last week, the worst is behind us now. So, despite the cloudy sky I couldnt´feel sunnier! I have to teach an hour this morning, then I only have a half hour session left. I have a few things to finish up here (I have to write out my lesson plan and make a few notes so I know what I¨m talking about) So off I go to start the week. As always, I´ll keep you posted as things progress. Hope you all have a great morning to start off a positive week.
The second beach was Sitges, the best beach in the area. Sitges is a small little village, right on the coast, with a lot of it´s old architecture still intact. There´s a big church that chimed the hour and quarter hour, and small cobble stoned streets curving through the tall stone castle-like buildings. Within these streets are small shops and venders, and on either side of the buildings are stairs down to the beach, where hundreds of people laid themselves out like beached sea creatures, just soaking up the rays, then diving into the water to cool off.
It tell you, that was the greatest water I have ever swam in. It was the perfect temperature, and the waves rolled on, not too strong, not too weak, just perfect waves. I got in and didn´t want to get out, just kneeled there on the sandy floor of the Mediterranean Sea, letting the waves pick me up and carry me where ever they felt like it. The view was perfect no matter where you looked. if you looked out to the horizon, it was dotted with colorful sailboats. Looking into land there was tall ancient buildings, with clay tile roofs, and bright red flowers surrounding carved Grecian statues. Just wonderful. Heaven on earth. It took a lot for me to hop the train and get back to Barcelona . . . but I made it.
I called Joe, and we talked for a while (until the phone card died), which was great. It´s not often we both have the time to catch up, seeing as we´re both busy and live 6 time zones apart. Sounds like he, and all those who traveled to the Tigers game, had a fantastic weekend!
It´s a grey morning here in Barcelona. The sky is heavy, as is the air, aching for a chance to rain and let everything go. People are moving a little more sluggishly, you sweat standing still. I was happy to have the rain hold off until I arrived at school this morning, seeing as this is the first day I havne´t brought my jacket with me. There was a slight mist, the kind that you can feel hit you, but you can¨t see in the air. It´s ghost like, really.
But it´s the first day of the last week, the worst is behind us now. So, despite the cloudy sky I couldnt´feel sunnier! I have to teach an hour this morning, then I only have a half hour session left. I have a few things to finish up here (I have to write out my lesson plan and make a few notes so I know what I¨m talking about) So off I go to start the week. As always, I´ll keep you posted as things progress. Hope you all have a great morning to start off a positive week.
posted by Chandi at 9:36 AM
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Well, the week is off to a great start. I got that big project back from last week and have to redo it, because my comparison box wasn´t big enough (there was no size requirement) and because I said that we break up sentences by adding commas, rather than saying we write in shorter sentences. I´m pretty ticked off, but what can I do. Only 3 more days of people telling me that the American way of doing things is wrong, and then I can do things however I like. As of now, 5 or 6 of the 11 of us have gotten the assignment back, which says something for how well they told us what they were expecting. I´ll just fix it and move on with my life. Then the day will be sunny again :)
Hmmm...bastards, aren't they? Wonder what happens if you just say "Ummmm...no. Don't want to." That's horrible, but like you say, it's almost over.
I agree with Joe, the jerks!! can't say what Joe said I am at work. The beach did sound great. I spent a hot sticky weekend with relatives. But the Tigers game was fun. Good luck on the project redo (unbelievable).
Well, perhaps the weather this morning was an accurate predicition for a Monday. It seems that, not only do I have several corrections to make on my project, but the disk the project was on (yes, I mean WAS) has lost half of it´s contents, including my project. So, now the whole 15 pages need to be retyped. I love my life. I really do.
Thanks for the offers folks. I type pretty fast, so it won´t take me long to do. I think I only have a couple pages left as of right now. It´s just - you know, nothing can go right with my projects! It´s ticking me off!!!! But that´s okay. this too shall pass :)
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