Buenas Noches para todo!

This be Greg... again.

We´re hanging out at an internet café while all of you still have an hour and a half of work! I remember that stuff... you know, doing things for pay and the like.

We got an email from our last roommate, Marijke, from Canada. She´s been having trouble getting her visa because it got lost or something. Anyways, she wound up getting both the embassy and the Ambassador(!) involved and just got her visa yesterday. So, while it was up in the air for quite some time when she would be able to make it here, it looks as if she will be in Granada for our orientation just in time.

We visited Almería both yesterday and today; the bus there is only 90 cents to go one way. We shopped around for tshirts and miscellaneous other things (I got some sweet European leather shoes... stuff you´d probably never expect me to wear). Then we went to the Museo de Arte de Almería which was actually pretty disappointing because it was featuring a bunch of military art and uniforms.

As far as language academies, we've been pretty disapointed there too. The one I found on the internet in Aguadulce is nearly 30 minutes walking distance in a remote area of town. We actually never found it because the street number was too high for the street we found of the same name and there didn't seem to be a continuing street anywhere. Our last hope for this is in Almería at the university so we'll check that out sometime later.

In response to some questions we´ve received: Linda, Suzy and I are both at different schools than everyone else but Marijke and Neil are stationed at the same school (three total schools). Suzy and I are both assisting (not actually teaching but just talking to the students in English and helping the teachers) younger kids around 3rd grade to 6th grade-ish. We start that up on the 3rd of October which should be next Wednesday. We´ll all be working just four days a week for three hours a day probably (haven´t set anything definite up yet but that's what they did last year). We'll post pics and such when we get the chance. Ashlee, we will get our internet set up within 2 weeks so we'll be on Skype, iChat, google talk, AIM, etc. pretty much a lot then. Anyone that would like our address, send us an email and we'll forward that onto you.

Hope all takes care!

¡Buenas noches!